Passing Parade: Making your choice

Nelson A. Pryor: Guest Columnist “The poor will always be with you.” John 12:8. That is not very encouraging. Not very uplifting. Not very hopeful.  What to Do? The Feb. 22, 1854 New York Times 4 describes the life of “…the little, ragged, dirty, profane, thieving outcast, whom one may, nay must, meet daily in the streets of New York.” It sketches the life he leads, the poverty he suffers, his lack of friends, the influences that surround him, the habits he naturally falls in