| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1683 |
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in the glittering throng. The remainder of the Brothers consisted of half-starved, pale-faced working men and women, most of them dressed in other people's cast-off clothing, and with broken, patched-up, leaky boots on their feet. Rushton having concluded his address, Didlum stepped forward to give out the words of the hymn the former had quoted at the conclusion of his remarks: `Oh, come and jine this 'oly band, And hon to glory go.' Strange and incredible as it may appear to the reader, although none of them ever did any of the things Jesus said, the people who were conducting this meeting had the effrontery to claim to be followers of Christ - Christians! |
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