The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest / The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand years

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/p “They sit at the Feet—and they hear the Word—they see how truly the promise runs. They have cast their burdens upon the Lord, and—the Lord He lays them on Martha’s sons.” p/

On the other hand the sons of Martha have to face reality.

“They do not preach that their God will rouse them an hour before the nuts work loose,

They do not teach that His pity allows them to leave their work when they damn-well choose.”

The entire poem may be found in the 1918 Collected Edition of Mr. Kipling’s poems.

Reflections Upon Poverty

(From “The New Grub Street”)

By George Gissing

(Novelist of English middle-class life, 1857-1903. Few have ever equalled him in the portrayal of the sordid, every-day realities of poverty. The story of his own tragic life is told in a novel called “The Private Life of Henry Maitland,” by Morley Roberts)