The confessions of an old almsgiver; or, Three cheers for the Charity organization society1871 - 239 pages |
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Family welfare association. imagery which likens saving truth to a medicine for sin - sick souls , they deemed it needful to deal with it as with physic for children , -combining the powder with jam , the draught with loaf sugar . But I ...
Family welfare association. imagery which likens saving truth to a medicine for sin - sick souls , they deemed it needful to deal with it as with physic for children , -combining the powder with jam , the draught with loaf sugar . But I ...
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... sick sire or dying dam . And what a muddle was the place in ! It looked as if Despair had just given in , after a last round with Dirt , leaving the victor to make a merciless use of his victory . Could it well be otherwise ? When not ...
... sick sire or dying dam . And what a muddle was the place in ! It looked as if Despair had just given in , after a last round with Dirt , leaving the victor to make a merciless use of his victory . Could it well be otherwise ? When not ...
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... Sick Clubs and Provident Dispensaries ? Have I not provided for thee Hospitals without limit and Dis- pensaries which no man can number , yea , and Convalescent Institutions to follow ? And why , distrusting or despising my free bounty ...
... Sick Clubs and Provident Dispensaries ? Have I not provided for thee Hospitals without limit and Dis- pensaries which no man can number , yea , and Convalescent Institutions to follow ? And why , distrusting or despising my free bounty ...
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... sickness and need shall come upon thee , I , in just anger at thy ingratitude and neglect , shall bid thee betake thy- self to thy Savings Bank or thy Provident Club that they may provide for and succour thee when thy savings are gone ...
... sickness and need shall come upon thee , I , in just anger at thy ingratitude and neglect , shall bid thee betake thy- self to thy Savings Bank or thy Provident Club that they may provide for and succour thee when thy savings are gone ...
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... sickness they will be took up by the charitable , — have their tools redeemed , or what not , or their clothes took out ; or that if their girl or boy picks up a place , clothes will be found them , if they only make up a tidy bit of a ...
... sickness they will be took up by the charitable , — have their tools redeemed , or what not , or their clothes took out ; or that if their girl or boy picks up a place , clothes will be found them , if they only make up a tidy bit of a ...
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Page 96 - For the poor shall never cease out of the land : therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Page 86 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 1 - Pity the sorrows of a poor old man ! Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; Oh ! give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.