Wealth and Old-Age Poverty
Superintendent Graves, of the King Home for Young Men, says that there are 1,125,000 former wage-earners in the United States who are sixty-five years old or more, and who are dependent upon public and private charity at a cost of $220,000,000 annually. There are 300,000 other old men and women in various almshouses whose up-keep costs another $50,000,000 each year; and while there are these thousands of people who do not have the necessities of life in their old age, there are a few thousand who have so much that they do not know what to do with it. Did you ever closely study the first part of the fifth chapter of James, in connection with the unparalleled wealth that a few people in these times possess, while at the same time there are multiplied thousands who are suffering from want?