Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. Josiah Strong Read Quote
There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. Josiah Strong Read Quote
What if it should be God’s plan to people the world with better and finer material? Josiah Strong Read Quote
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. Josiah Strong Read Quote
This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus. Josiah Strong Read Quote
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty. Josiah Strong Read Quote
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization… It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. Josiah Strong Read Quote
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor. Josiah Strong Read Quote
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster. Josiah Strong Read Quote
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center. Josiah Strong Read Quote
