id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.32044038456497 Ames, Charles Gordon Wisdom in charity. A paper read at the sixth annual meeting of the above association, December 7th, 1876 By Rev. Chas. G. Ames 1877 .txt text/plain 420 19 70 of families and wastes their small resources, while they vainly lottery in which the hopeful investor draws a blank; and the intelligence, by education through books alone, results in bringing forward hundreds of thousands of young men and women, They marry, found families and pay the bills with drafts on the bank of hope. the expensiveness of modern life, growing out of the great increase of artificial wants, and it may appear that the plea of want of employment often means that many men and women cannot find just such work as they would like to do, at just Shall we make every poor-house Every poor-house and asylum ought indeed to be in part a work-house; but society would be brutalized, along with its victims, if the delicate duties of humanity For a time, while population was thin, Charity might safely An ever-increasing deposit of misery and vice, disorder and desperation, ./cache/hvd.32044038456497.pdf ./txt/hvd.32044038456497.txt