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Excerpt from The MixingThe Rip Van Winkle of the Plain was far and wide the town's nickname. A place where nothin' never happens, Bill Van Wormer of the Bassler store Cracker Barrels was wont to remark to his fellow cronies around the stove.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books ...

Excerpt from The Free City: A Book of NeighborhoodModernity, organizing the map of the globe into huge governmental fabrics, talks glibly of Englands.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original...

Excerpt from The Carpenter and the Rich ManThis IS a companion book to the Call of the Carpenter. That former book is a biography of Jesus as a workingman. Here I present a study of the Parables. In both, the economic life of the time is the constant background and point of departure. No one shall think the thoughts of Jesus after him, without an understanding of the industrial condi tions of that day. Cleared of accretions by grace of the cri...

Excerpt from Church of the Social Revolution: A Message to the WorldUnto that holy task hand joins in hand. Tough minded visionaries, they that are full Of dreams every minute, all forward-looking folk, they into whose ear the miseries Of our day speak loudly, these we are wooing. Such are invited to our colors.You that crave reality, you that have distaste Of an age Of Shams and make-believe, come. You belong to us. We belong to you.About the...

Excerpt from Letters From Prison: Socialism a Spiritual SunriseBouck White was born in Middleburg, a village in the Catskill Mountains, October 20, 1874. His father was a retired merchant. On both sides he came from Work ing class stock, his paternal grandfather was a farmer, his maternal grandfather a blacksmith. On his father's side he is of Scotch and English descent, his mother, Mary Bouck, was Holland Dutch.It is Of interest to note that ...

Excerpt from The Call of the CarpenterThere are two facts of our day which occupy the centre of the stage, to which all other facts are tributary, and which for good or for ill are conceded to be of super lative import. They are, the rise of democracy, and the decline of ecclesiasticism.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...

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In sharp contrast to today's brand of "God wants you to be rich" spirituality, religious figures a century ago were asking the opposite question: Does Jesus frown on material wealth? One of the most outspoken voices so wondering was Bouck White, a Congregationalist minister in New York City, and in 1914, he was actually arrested and convicted on a trumped-up charge of disorderly conduct for continually posing this query to the privileged of Ma...

As the United States endured a lingering economic hangover from the excesses of the Gilded Age and the last wars fought by monarchs was raging in Europe, Bouck White-a Congregationalist minister and champion of the poor and working class in New York CIty-was busy making himself the bane of the elite of Manhattan with his revolutionary, to some, philosophy about God and wealth: namely, that God frowned up it. Here, in this 1919 book, White, a...

In sharp contrast to today's brand of "God wants you to be rich" spirituality, religious figures a century ago were asking the opposite question: Does Jesus frown on material wealth? One of the most outspoken voices so wondering was Bouck White, a Congregationalist minister in New York City, and in 1914, he was actually arrested for disorderly conduct for daring to pose this query to the privileged of Manhattan. Here, in this 1914 volume-a c...

Excerpt from The Mixing But disillusionment arrived. Dagner would not have minded the general run-downness of the place. To tackle a job where his predecessors had failed, build up a dilapidation that was a prospect quite to his taste. But he found before long that there was no material to build with. It's all right to put together again a brick house that has fallen into a ruinous heap. But when the bricks themselves have pulverized into a d...

He Who Sells What Isn't His'nMust Buy it Back or Go to Pris'n."--"Uncle Dan'l" DrewLong out of print and virtually unavailable for years, THE BOOK OF DANIEL DREW is the irresistible story of a country boy who grew up to become Wall Street's first great speculator.Told for the most part in his own salty language - of his early life as a cattle drover, as a profiteer of "watered" cattle (a scheme he later used in the stock deal in the famed Erie...

Excerpt from The Carpenter and the Rich Man This is a companion book to the "Call of the Carpenter." That former book is a biography of Jesus as a workingman. Here I present a study of the Parables. In both, the economic life of the time is the constant background and point of departure. No one shall think the thoughts of Jesus after him, without an understanding of the industrial conditions of that day. Cleared of accretions by grace of the ...

Excerpt from The Call of the CarpenterThere are two facts of our day which occupy the centre of the stage, to which all other facts are tributary, and which for good or for ill are conceded to be of super lative import. They are, the rise of democracy, and the decline of ecclesiasticism.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...

Excerpt from Letters From Prison: Socialism a Spiritual Sunrise Bouck White was born in Middleburg, a village in the Catskill Mountains, October 20, 1874. His father was a retired merchant. On both sides he came from Work ing class stock, his paternal grandfather was a farmer, his maternal grandfather a blacksmith. On his father's side he is of Scotch and English descent, his mother, Mary Bouck, was Holland Dutch. It is Of interest to note t...

Excerpt from The Book of Daniel Drew: A Glimpse of the Fisk-Gould-Tweed, Regime From the Inside You'll have to foot it many a mile to find writing to equal that. Fine, noble words seemed to come to Jay natural-like. If I could write in that fashion I'd be stuck up. But Jay wasn't, in fact, he didn't use to like it when I would remind him of this opening chapter of his History of Delaware County. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes...

Excerpt from The Free City: A Book of Neighborhood Modernity, organizing the map of the globe into huge governmental fabrics, talks glibly of Englands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ...

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