Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
Josiah StrongThe city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
Josiah StrongIt is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.
Josiah StrongHeretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.
Josiah Strong