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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Like most social questions this one has two distinct sides; the economic and the ethical one. In regard to the economic side, the deductions drawn from official reports, show that not less than seven hundred million dollars were paid for drink by consumers in the year 1880. This is no less per capita than one twelfth of the cost of the necessities of life; namely, food, clothing and shelter. Such a fact as this is very startling. Suppose we look at the subject on a small scale, and take the city of Cambridge, where there has for some time been...
...million dollars is needed by the trustees to complete the building, equipments and organization of Chicago University...
...revenues of Oxford and Cambridge Universities represent a capital of about seventy-five million dollars...
...charge. It is the duty of all Christians, he began by saying, to give themselves to Christ and to spend their lives where they can do the most good. The time has passed when we can look upon foreign missionary work with mere enthusiasm alone. There are now 1500 million people in the world. 140 million Protestants; 90 million, Greek Catholic; 205 million, Roman Catholic; 8 million, Jews; 175 million, Mohammedans and 870 millions are Heathens...
...million dollars have been pledged by Philadelphians for remodelling and enlarging the Jefferson Medical College...