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All Roads Lead to Calvary

CHAPTER VII
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Yet he never failed his people.

Fat year and lean year: 'In my time no man went hungry.' And here, to-day, with our steamships and our railways, with the granaries of the world filled to overflowing, one third of our population lives on the border line of want.

In India they die by the roadside.

What's the good of it all: your science and your art and your religion! How can you help men's souls if their bodies are starving?
A hungry man's a hungry beast.
"I spent a week at Grimsby, some years ago, organizing a fisherman's union.

They used to throw the fish back into the sea, tons upon tons of it, that men had risked their lives to catch, that would have fed half London's poor.


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