Excerpt from An Address on the Prevention of Pauperism Povmrrv tells its whole story. It has no conceal ments. The undisguised spirit speaks through rags, simply, and audibly. Poverty has neither bars nor locks. It wants neither. Not because its faith in man is the highest, or that it looks on Society as altogether a Christian organization, that it has not these wants. Poverty with its essential Openness in the mass, may and does use deception in the individual instance. But it is when it would avoid starvation, or labor, that it Often does this. In these cases it has parted with its principles, or they are overlaid by a stern necessity, or an indolence, which, having begun in some uncontroll ed circumstance, habit has confirmed. Poverty can do nothing for itself. Helplessness, dependence, is one Of the most pressing and saddest facts in the history of poverty. It is this which gave such significance to the laws of Moses in regard to the poor. It is this which was ever in the mind Of the Saviour Of the world, when be commended, nay, urged the offices of active benevo lence on his disciples and his church. He left the poor as a perpetual legacy to his followers, as if he foresaw in their undying charity, love, kindness, to these his spir itual children, an expression Of that providence which God himself extends to his whole universe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.