"About My Father's Business": Work Amidst the Sick, the Sad, and the Sorrowing

"About My Father's Business: Work Amidst the Sick, the Sad, and the Sorrowing" by Thomas Archer is a collection of writings from the 1800's that looks at charity and being responsible to other humans. The story is about how important it is to have real, personal charity instead of using cold systems that ignore compassion, and delivers a disapproval of charity systems that don't give humans real connections, which is something that is very important to showing compassion. Archer uses stories to show these ideas and asks people to consider their part in being charitable and if we have forgotten about helping people because we have gotten too used to organizations. He says we need to be compassionate from the heart and really get to know the people we are helping instead of just giving money or using systems.