| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1687 |
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They stigmatized as `infidels' all those who differed from them, forgetting that the only real infidels are those who are systematically false and unfaithful to the Master they pretend to love and serve. Grinder, having a slight cold, had not spoken this evening, but several other infidels, including Sweater, Didlum, Bosher, and Starr, had addressed the meeting, making a special appeal to the working people, of whom the majority of the crowd was composed, to give up all the vain pleasures of the world in which they at present indulged, and, as Rushton had eloquently put it at the close of his remarks: `Come and jine this 'Oly band and hon to glory go!' As Didlum finished reading out the words, the lady at the harmonium struck up the tune of the hymns, and the disciples all joined |
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