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administering affliction afford alms almsgiving applicants assistance beggars begging benefactors benevolent persons bestowed blessed bounty bread cause CHAPTER character and circumstances Christ Christian classes clothing comfort Dame Cross decency dependence deserving desire destitution disposed duty earn effort employed employment encourage endeavour evil excep exer extravagance favour feel full intention gifts give habits happiness heart HINTS husband idleness impart impostors improvident independent labourer indolence industry inquired instances intemperance intrusted kind kind ladies labour lence liberal living Lord Matt means mendicity mily ness never numbers objects obtain occasion paro parties perhaps poor poverty priva profes profess promote public house real distress receive reclaim regular religion RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY RESIDENT NEIGHBOURS resources of charity rich selfish sequently shillings society soliciting relief soul spirit strangers succour sufferers supply taste things tion torily true charity tural unto vice vicious vidual visits whole
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Page 17 - Since the dear hour that brought me to thy foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hoped, but in thy righteousness divine...
Page 96 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he *which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 8 - But whoso hath this world's goods, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Page 110 - midst shame and scorn. My friendship's utmost zeal to try, He ask'd if I for him would die ? The flesh was weak, my blood ran chill, But the free spirit cried,
Page 110 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And Peace bound up my broken heart. In prison I saw Him next, condemned To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I stemmed...
Page 22 - And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
Page 110 - Then, in a moment, to my view The stranger darted from disguise ; The tokens in his hands I knew, — My Saviour stood before my eyes. He spake, and my poor name he named : " Of me thou hast not been ashamed ; These deeds shall thy memorial be : Fear not, thou didst it unto me.
Page 9 - That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives ; Whom none can love, whom none can thank, Creation's blot, creation's blank ! '4.
Page 14 - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God : for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Page 96 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.