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" The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ... "
Typographical Journal - Page 30
1905
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Doctor Leeds' Selection of Popular Epic Recitations for Minstrel and Stage Use

Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 pages
...social show. The vulgar sham of the pompous feast, Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest; The organized charity scrimped and iced, In the name...Christ. The smile restrained, the respectable cant, When a friend in need is a friend in want; Where the only aim is to keep afloat, And a brother might...
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In Therapy We Trust: America's Obsession with Self-Fulfillment

Eva S. Moskowitz - 2001 - 380 pages
...Irish poet John Boyle O'Reilly poked fun at scientific charity's invoking science to refuse relief: The Organized Charity scrimped and iced. In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ."9 George Washington Plunkitt, of Tammany Hall, the famous New York City political machine,...
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My Day: The Best Of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge - 2009 - 368 pages
...letter in which he says the Refugee Relief Act should not be what John Boyle O'Reilly once termed: 224 "Organized charity, scrimped and iced In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ." Let us hope that we can approach this question in our Congress, in our homes, and in our communities...
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Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora

Tim Pat Coogan - 2002 - 788 pages
...The vulgar sham of the pompous feast Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest; The organised charity, scrimped and iced. In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ. A quiet, private man. Bulger undergoes a Curleyesque sea change when he stands before a microphone....
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Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-welfare Era

John P. Bartkowski, Helen A. Regis - 2003 - 214 pages
...Katz 1996:87). Poet John Boyle O'Reilly was even more succinct and damning (in Katz 1996:86): That Organized Charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ. From Welfare State to Post-Welfare Era: The Twentieth Century The twentieth century brought several...
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Preaching the Gospel of John: Proclaiming the Living Word

Lamar Williamson - 2004 - 366 pages
...include flowers for the sick, who have time to "smell the roses. "Judas's objection (12:5-6) represents "organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ."5 Any treatment ofjesus' memorable aphorism about the poor (12:8) should take care not to fall...
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Garretts & Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America

Albert Parry - 2005 - 389 pages
...Bohemian land. He then went on denouncing "the brainless heir," "the empty heart in a jeweled breast," "the organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ," and many other accepted phenomena. He first read his poem to his brethren at the Papyrus Club. It was...
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Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 27

1910 - 606 pages
...Hospital and all other sanely managed corporations intended to be of real service to " all the people." " The organized Charity scrimped and iced " In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ," is often the very worst enemy of the larger charity which opens its doors and says, " The world is...
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American law reports annotated, Volume 57

1928 - 1606 pages
...and uncared for by organized charities, except they have a 'permit.' Surely here, if anywhere, is " 'The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.'" Page 55: "The two religions exercising the most potent influence in shaping the material and spiritual...
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ADVENTURES IN SOCIAL WELFARE

ALEXANDER JOHNSON - 1923 - 514 pages
...sarcastically as the "Society for the Suppression of Benevolence", and John Boyle O'Reilly wrote of, "Organized Charity scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious statistical Christ." was due to the stress laid on the repressive side. People often say that they would rather feed ten...
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