The Confessions of an Old Almsgiver; Or, Three Cheers for the Charity Organization SocietyHodder and Stoughton, 1881 - 239 páginas |
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Página 96 - For the poor shall never cease out of the land : therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Página 86 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Página 1 - Pity the sorrows of a poor old man ! Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; Oh ! give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.
Página 95 - As who should say, I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my mouth let no dog bark.
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Página 107 - If the rich give their time to the poor instead of their money, they part with a commodity which the poor see is valuable to the givers, and consequently esteem the attention the more, as it implies an interest in their prosperity; and a feeling seems to be engendered in their minds of unwillingness to press on the kindness of those who thus prove themselves ready to sympathise with them in distress, and to do their utmost to relieve it.
Página 35 - Christianizing the people is sure to be tainted and enfeebled where there is allied with it a process for alimenting the people : there lies a moral impossibility in the way of accomplishing the two objects by the working of one and the same machinery.
Página 34 - And the saying pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch, whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
Página 6 - The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.
Página 107 - ... and consequently is no proof of his interest in the other's welfare. If the rich give their [time to the poor, they part with a commodity which the poor see is valuable to the givers, and consequently esteem the attention the more, as it implies an interest in their prosperity ; and a feeling seems to be engendered in their minds of unwillingness to press on the kindness of those who thus prove themselves ready to sympathize with them in distress, and to do their utmost to relieve it. This feeling...