Poverty's False Pride

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 15, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 19.

Poverty's False Pride.

A religious cotemporary says very justly: "The idea of 'respectable employment' is the rock upon which thousands split, and shipwreck themselves and all who depend on them. All employments are respectable that bring honest gain. The laborer, who is willing to turn his hand to anything, is as respectable as the draper store-tender. Indeed, the man who is ready to work whenever work offers, whatever it may be, rather than lie idle and beg, is a far more respectable man than one who turns up his nose at hard labor, wearies his friends with his complaints because he can get nothing to do, pockets his benefactions without thankfulness, and goes on from day to day a useless, lazy grumbler."