The Ragged-trousered PhilanthropistsA group of poor decorators who grow disillusioned with their impoverish life begin attacks on the lazy capitalists whose greediness has corrupted Britain. |
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Page 187 - I heard the voice of Jesus say " Behold, I freely give The living water ; thirsty one, Stoop down, and drink, and live : " I came to Jesus, and I drank Of that life-giving stream ; My thirst was quenched, my soul revived, And now I live In Him. 3 I heard the voice of Jesus say " I am this dark world's Light ; Look unto Me, thy morn shall rise, And all thy day be bright...
Page 355 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed...
Page 179 - Work through the morning hours ; Work while the dew is sparkling, Work 'mid springing flowers ; Work when the day grows brighter, Work in the glowing sun : Work, for the night is coming, When man's work is done.
Page 14 - There's always been rich and poor in the world, and there always will be.
Page 139 - ... Frenchmen and Gauls. With respect to these alleged Ishmaelites or Midianites of the present day, Mr. Williams stated, at the Cambridge Meeting, that he had written to Jerusalem for further information. Should this be confirmatory of the particulars here related, we may hope to be put upon the track of the wanderings of the children of Israel in the wilderness ; and may, above all, be led to the discovery of the site of " the Mountain of God in Horeb.
Page 4 - He was generally regarded as a bit of a crank: for it was felt that there must be something wrong about a man who took no interest in racing or football and was always talking a lot of rot about religion and politics. If it had not been for the fact that he was generally admitted to be an exceptionally good workman, they would have had but little hesitation about thinking that he was mad.
Page 39 - How much rent do we owe now?" asked Easton. "Four weeks, and I promised the collector the last time he called that we'd pay two weeks next Monday. He was quite nasty about it." "Well, I suppose you'll have to pay it, that's all," said Easton. "How much money will you have tomorrow?" asked Ruth. He began to reckon up his time: he started on Monday and today was Friday; five days, from seven to five, less half an hour for breakfast and an hour for dinner, eight and a half hours a day - forty-two hours...
Page 134 - Hunter objected to any but very large holes or cracks being stopped, and yet somehow or other he could not scamp the work to the extent that he was ordered to; and so, almost by stealth, he was in the habit of doing it — not properly — but as well as he dared. He even went to the length of occasionally buying a few sheets of glasspaper with his own money, as Crass had told Hunter.
Page 40 - It seems to me," said he, as, after having cleared a space on the table and arranged the paper, he began to sharpen his pencil with a table-knife, "that you don't manage things as well as you might. If you was to make out a list of just the things you must have before you went out of a Saturday, you'd find the money would go much farther. Instead of doing that you just take the money in your hand without knowing exactly what you're going to do with it, and when you come back it's all gone and next...
Page 119 - There's so much the matter with the present system that it's no good tinkering at it. Everything about it is wrong and there's nothing about it that's right. There's only one thing to be done with it and that is to smash it up and have a different system altogether.