"Repent ye, and believe the gospel."
Homes of Noble Poverty
By the Author of "England's Youth at Worship."
To be miserably poor throughout life is a burden sufficiently hard; to sink from riches to poverty is a tragedy. Yet it is a tragedy that we see constantly occurring around us. To struggle with despairing pride to preserve that outward show which is falsely termed respectability; to see fair-weather friends slink one by one away; to surrender the little luxuries, innocent enough in themselves, that have grown to become a part of life itself—that is what it means to slip down the hill of fortune. "Give me neither poverty nor riches," says the Book of Proverbs, the embodiment of wisdom for all time.
(Photo: J. G. Williams, East Molesey.)
NOBLE POVERTY AT HAMPTON COURT.