Homeless
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And sick, and old, and poor. How dreadful! Yet any reader of these lines may become so before he dies. The man who by his money, and credit, and financial abilities saved the nation from bankruptcy in the Revolution, the learning of whose timely assistance brought tears to the eyes of the great Washington, died in prison in Philadelphia! Yes, the nation’s saviour, financially, Robert Morris, languished in a debtor’s jail. Many a man and woman who has rolled in wealth for a score or more of years, has died in abject poverty. But a higher civilization is dawning; a god-like and a world-wide charity, a thoughtful generosity, is growing, and is spreading wider, and higher, and faster, all over Christen dom, inspiring men and women of wealth to devise meas ures for taking care of the children of adversity ; and it is showing itself in the direction of extensive buildings, to be made into “ Homes ” for various classes. There is a