Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Rainsford, D. D., of New York, preached last night at Appleton Chapel, from the text "Jesus had compassion for the multitude." He said: Pity is love that wants to do something for others, love anxious to sacrifice itself. Jesus had a great pity for the poor. He pitied first their hunger, second their ignorance, and third their lack of leaders...
...Jesus show his pity for the poor, their hunger, their ignorance, and their lack of leaders? He had no patent remedy, no ingenious social reform schemes. He said: "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into the harvest." That is the only way to save the poor. There must be laborers and the labor is for college men. Will Harvard stand forth to its own glory for truth and justice and pity for the poor, or will it to its everlasting shame shrink back and let the poor take care of themselves...
This evening at 7.30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre, Rev. Dr. Henry Lunn is to address the religious societies on "Christian Reunion." He is a young man of only forty years but a great worker. In London every Sunday about 1250 poor boys gather to listen to him as chaplain of the Polytechnic School. Apart from other work, however, he is president of the "Grindewald Conferences," which last summer numbered 2500 of the most prominent religious leaders of all denominations from Europe and America. He will show in his address the need of this union and the essential points on which...
...Monday, January 28, it is proposed to offer students an opportunity to make gifts of clothing, for distribution by wise and responsible charitable agencies among the poor of Boston and vicinity. Any clothing in condition to be serviceable will be acceptable: outer garments, underwear, hats, gloves, shoes, overshoes, neckwear...
...committee wish to raise five thousand dollars, with which to found a scholarship for poor students. Of this sum, only fourteen hundred dollars have as yet been received. Subscriptions may be sent to the treasurer of the fund, Mr. Thayer, 8 Berkeley street, Cambridge...