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Marvin Olasky
November 29, 2024
Homelessness
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Gurteen and Lowell: Nineteenth Century Views on True Charity

Marvin Olasky
November 29, 2024
Homelessness
5
One Buffalo pastor, S. Humphreys Gurteen, said poverty was a problem, but an underlying cause was not material. He worried about the “concentrated and systematized pauperism which exists in our larger cities.” Gurteen wrote regarding “paupers” — those among the poor who had given up on working — that, “If left to themselves and no kind hand is held out to assist, they will inevitably sink lower and lower, ’til perchance they end their course in suicide or felony.” Read More ›