Download or read book Crimes of Charity written by Konrad Bercovici and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crimes of Charity written by Bercovici Konrad and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Crimes of Charity written by Conrad Bercovici and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crimes of Charity written by Konrad Bercovici and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was once a man with a merciful heart who had a large fortune, and when he died he left much gold to his brother to use as he wished, and an additional amount in trust, to succour the poor. In his will he wrote: "Build a big house and put therein a big stove and heat the stove well. On the door thou shalt put a sign in red letters that shall read: 'Ye poor of the land, come in and warm your bodies; ye hungry of the land, come and get a bowl of warm wine and a loaf of bread.' This will be my monument. I want no tombstone on the grave wherein my body will lie. Dust unto dust descends, but my soul will be alive in the blessings of the poor."
Download or read book Crimes of Charity written by James Zimmerhoff and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-12 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a literary power which might be called Russian--a style of bald narration which carries absolute conviction of human character, in simple words packed with atmosphere. Only the best writers have it; this book is full of it. I read the manuscript more than a year ago, and I remember it chiefly as a series of vivid pictures--a sort of epic of our City of Dreadful Day. Here we see and smell and hear the East Side; its crowded, gasping filth, the sour stench of its grinding poverty, the cries and groans and lamentations in many alien tongues of the hopeful peoples whose hope is broken in the Promised Land. Pale, undersized, violent children at play in the iron street; the brown, steamy warmth of Jewish coffee-houses on Grand Street; sick tenement rooms quivering and breathless in summer heat--starkly hungry with the December wind cutting through broken windows; poets, musicians, men and women with the blood of heroes and martyrs, babies who might grow up to be the world's great--stunted, weakened, murdered by the unfair struggle for bread. What human stories are in this book! What tremendous dramas of the soul!It is as if we were under water, looking at the hidden hull of this civilization. Evil growths cling to it--houses of prostitution, sweat-shops which employ the poor in their bitter need at less than living wages, stores that sell them rotten food and shabby clothing at exorbitant prices, horrible rents, and all the tragi-comic manifestations of Organised Charity.Every person of intelligence and humanity who has seen the workings of Organised Charity, knows what a deadening and life-sapping thing it is, how unnecessarily cruel, how uncomprehending. Yet it must not be criticised, investigated or attacked. Like patriotism, charity is respectable, an institution of the rich and great--like the high tariff, the open shop, Wall street, and Trinity Church. White slavery recruits itself from charity, industry grows bloated with it, landlords live off it; and it supports an army of officers, investigators, clerks and collectors, whom it systematically debauches. Its giving is made the excuse for lowering the recipients' standard of living, of depriving them of privacy and independence, or subjecting them to the cruelest mental and physical torture, of making them liars, cringers, thieves. The law, the police, the church are the accomplices of charity. And how could it be otherwise, considering those who give, how they give, and the terrible doctrine of "the deserving poor"? There is nothing of Christ the compassionate in the immense business of Organised Charity; its object is to get efficient results--and that means, in practise, to just keep alive vast numbers of servile, broken-spirited people.I know of publishers who refused this book, not because it was untrue, or badly written; but because they themselves "believed in Organised Charity." One of them wrote that "there must be a bright side." I have never heard the "bright side." To those of us who know, even the Charity organisation reports--when they do not refuse to publish them--are unspeakably terrible. To them, Poverty is a crime, to be punished; to us, Organised Charity is a worse one.
Download or read book Crimes of Charity written by Konrad Bercovici and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in time of war, stress, struggle and persecution, a careful perusal of Konrad Bercovici's "Crimes of Charity"(*) is worth while. The book indicts organized charity in New York. John Reed, in an introduction, calls it "a sort of epic of our City of Dreadful Day."
Download or read book Toxic Charity written by Robert D. Lupton and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public service is a way of life for Americans; giving is a part of our national character. But compassionate instincts and generous spirits aren’t enough, says veteran urban activist Robert D. Lupton. In this groundbreaking guide, he reveals the disturbing truth about charity: all too much of it has become toxic, devastating to the very people it’s meant to help. In his four decades of urban ministry, Lupton has experienced firsthand how our good intentions can have unintended, dire consequences. Our free food and clothing distribution encourages ever-growing handout lines, diminishing the dignity of the poor while increasing their dependency. We converge on inner-city neighborhoods to plant flowers and pick up trash, battering the pride of residents who have the capacity (and responsibility) to beautify their own environment. We fly off on mission trips to poverty-stricken villages, hearts full of pity and suitcases bulging with giveaways—trips that one Nicaraguan leader describes as effective only in “turning my people into beggars.” In Toxic Charity, Lupton urges individuals, churches, and organizations to step away from these spontaneous, often destructive acts of compassion toward thoughtful paths to community development. He delivers proven strategies for moving from toxic charity to transformative charity. Proposing a powerful “Oath for Compassionate Service” and spotlighting real-life examples of people serving not just with their hearts but with proven strategies and tested tactics, Lupton offers all the tools and inspiration we need to develop healthy, community-driven programs that produce deep, measurable, and lasting change. Everyone who volunteers or donates to charity needs to wrestle with this book.
Download or read book The Charities Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charity Is Missing written by Danny Niñal and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charity Is Missing is a story of Charity as a person juxtaposed with Charity as a virtue, both of which were missing in the fictional Manakitanga Island when a series of crimes happened, all within the weekend. Frank Dunn, a police detective, and his very versatile team were tested for the first time. The city of Manakitanga was known as one of the most peaceful cities in the country. They never had a murder case in twenty-one years and never experienced a series of crimes committed all within forty-eight to seventy-two hours. But, as they followed every lead, they found themselves into a more sinister crime that was way beyond their cup of tea. But they cannot let the cup pass and the will of the evil one be done. The stakes were higher than they thought. With the help of the whole community, information was gathered, and the blurry picture of events became clearer but not necessarily better. The island gathered all its resources to fight the crime and to keep the city beautiful again. But life in the island was never the same again.
Download or read book Charity Kills written by Jon Bridgewater and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman is found with her throat slashed on the grounds of the biggest charity event in Texas. The people in power know a murder at such an esteemed event could garner the wrong kind of attention from an unenlightened public that the charity has come to depend on to fill its treasure chest. Immediate action has to be taken and they go into a mode of subterfuge and misdirection to cover up a crime. Detective David Storm, a defeated cop slowly deteriorating in place as he awaits his pending retirement, is assigned to lead the investigation. Haunted by addiction and depression due to his own wife's inexplicable death, he is hand picked by the establishment to play the role of the patsy to yet another unsolved crime. Armed with only his friends, detective Storm relentlessly digs for answers, all the while fighting the obstructions of City Hall, the charity officials, and even his own department, only to find that there's a pattern of multiple slayings-a series of crimes more sinister than ever imagined . . . As the clock ticks and another body is found, will this unlikely champion be able to vanquish his personal demons and stop a cunning killer?
Download or read book Charity Girl written by Michael Lowenthal and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War I, after an impulsive night with an infected soldier, Frieda Mintz, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl, is sent to a makeshift detention center for medical treatment with other "charity girls" in similar circumstances
Download or read book The Conservator written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Charity written by John M. Perkins and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful call to action to bring reconciliation and restoration to broken communities.
Download or read book The Charity written by Connie Johnson Hambley and published by Connie J Hambley. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jessica Wyeth is too young and unaware to understand why she is not welcomed into the lucrative family business of training and racing horses. When she is falsely accused of the brutal murder of the last person who could protect her, she runs. Jessica becomes a master at hiding in plain view, but the process of rebuilding her life is derailed when she is recognized by the organization that destroyed her family. Her search for the truth draws her into the cold reality of a network of terrorist cells. Set in the rolling hills of Kentucky and the streets of Boston, Jessica learns that she is not the only one hidden in the daylight."--Back cover.
Download or read book Annual report of the State Board of Charity of Massachusetts v 2 1865 written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual report of the State Board of Charity of Massachusetts v 4 1867 written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
