167 books · Charity Parkerson
Excerpt from Public Relief and Private Charity I have compiled this little book because I believe some such restatement of the principles upon which the Modern methods of Charity are based is needed. There is not, perhaps, an original thought or suggestion in it: - an important part of it is direct and verbal quotation; and to every student of the subject it will be apparent that almost the whole of it is taken from the writings of wise men and women who have lived during the past hundred…