...market, or mixed — this children's ditty of the nineteenth century still holds unfortunately true: The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them high and lowly and ordered their estate. Most recently, and yet typically, those economists who specialize...

...verse from the 1848 hymn All things bright and beautiful, which is now usually omitted. It states, 'The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate: God made them high and lowly, and ordered their estate'.35 If such an understanding was shattered, then the consequence...

...beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them high and lowly And ordered their estate. Unfortunately, many still cling to privileges, unjustly oppress...

...in a mediaeval English verse, inspired by the philosophy of the established Church: "The rich man at his castle, The poor man at his gate. God made them high or lowly And ordered their estate." The etymology of the Polish word bogaty, meaning 'rich' (B6g means 'God'), probably...

...understand that everything is provisional; that things are never definitively in order, as most hymns (The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate') would insist they were. 'Georgie Porgie' is, of course, familiar. Here is a less well-known example...

...of the original verses of Cecil Frances Alexander's hymn "All Things Bright and Beautiful" in 1848: The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them high or lowly, And ordered their estate Corresponding views from the Southern United States are quoted in Kaestle (1976)...

...played a larger part in the control of the churches. Or was the problem a rigid faith in the notion 'the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them high or lowly, and ordered their estate'? The tendency to cite God to cloak our own ignorance, greed, ineptitude or cowardice...

...know because of the funerals I attend) the following words have been excised from an Anglican hymn: 'The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them high or lowly and ordered their estate.' As I grew up my relationship with my father deteriorated. He was loving to us...

...beautiful', expressed this view and, as a result, the offending verse is now not usually found in hymnbooks! The rich man in his castle The poor man at his gate God made them high and lowly And ordered their estate. The Bible teaches that the poor are very special to God and that,...

...evident. A popular hymn for children at the time, 'All things bright and beautiful', included the verse: The rich man in his castle The poor man at his gate, God made them high and lowly And ordered their estate. This was the accepted position, high and low, until World War I...