HOW TO DEAL WITH THE POOR IN OUR CITIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1849, 24 May 1888, Page 3

HOW TO DEAL WITH THE POOR IN OUR CITIES.

* [BY REV. BDGIU M. LEVY, D,D.] Professor Huxley, at a meeting m London, ridiculed tho attempts "for the mechanical improvement; of the people from the outside," urging philanthropists " to cnltlvato tholr in'olligonoa, eonao <f dignity, aad higher aeipinUlo/iS. That being done, he thought they would themoolveo Improve t.hr,ic honaea." " AH this," addi a critio, " la very trne, and illustrates what wo hnvo often thought that tho wantß of tho poor are frequently moral rather than material. Of courae, wo Bpoak of tho unoonvortod poor. Thoy are bankrupt, not alone or chit fly In money, but lv heart, m hope, m aoifoontrol, In industry, m will, ia trust, m God, m morality, A. loaf of bread, a ton of coal 1b soon gone ; bat a reinforoement of hope, freodom from an onslavlng and pauperising habit ia a groat blessing." The shortest, tho oaaicßt, the oheupost way to relieve the temporal distresses of tho poor, Is by changing their character, elevating them morally aud spiritually. This Ih tho truo efftco of tho Ohurob. She is to feed tho hungry and clothe tho naked, aa well na to oouk tho conversion of sinners, bat eho 1b to leach »Ibo that " if any will not work, neither shall they eat."