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a law. It will go to the almshouse if it does not 

 work. But why does it not work ? Chiefly, I think, 

 because of lack of organization of the great philan 

 thropic sentiment in the community. You do not 

 know the difference between the poor that are un- 

 worthy, and the poor that are worthy ; and you do 

 not take any too much pains to find out. [Ap- 

 plause.] The organizations which have it for their 

 business to ascertain the difference between those who 

 are wortlvy, and those who are unworthy to receive 

 aid, you allow to starve. You permit them to stagger 

 through our great municipalities, jeered at not infre- 

 quently for their poverty. I do not want great houses 

 for young men's Christian associations ; I would have 

 no man set his heart upon upholstery : but I affirm 

 that these philanthropic agencies, which represent the 

 union of all the churches, ought to be re-enforced and 

 made able to help the J'oung man in the attic, and 

 the young woman, who may be succeeded in another 

 generation by your daughter or granddaughter, and 

 who, on the streets, goes to Gehenna because you 

 have provided no sifting visitation to ascertain when 

 a person really in need should be helped. 



These are serious charges to make against modern 

 civilization, but all through the world cities are grow- 

 ing with oninous rapidity. Agricultural labor does 

 not require half the number of persons that it did 

 before our agricultural machines came into use. 'In 

 1840 ten men were required on the farm where one is 

 now needed. When people flock to cities, when the un- 

 cinployed class is so large there, and when the churches 



