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“But the comforts donated by the Christian love are not just words, they're acts.“ The successful medic Heinrich Hahn, happily married and father of ten children, had had surely reason enough to take care just of his job and his family.

However, he dealt with more, he wasn't able to distinguish between care and spiritual guidance.

The things he had experienced as a medic, showed him “how little the state per se is able to hold corruption off without the help of religion”: the early industrialization left a lane of miserable living conditions in Aachen.

The worker's families had to live in small, mostly wet, dark and stinky houses, followed by a high rate of childhood mortality, violence and neglect.

Heinrich Hahn realized early that he couldn't change the situation only with his medical care as long as the society circumstances didn't change.