...alone ; but good is especially due to the indigent and helpless. And such we may find every day, for " the poor we have always with us, and when we will, we may do them good." If good is due to such, then the question is, " from whom it is due. Is it due from us ?" And here...

...wavering choice. In the morning we are commanded to sow the seed, and in the evening we are forbidden to withhold our hand. We are to do unto others as...although for the present the bread thrown on the waters seem carried down the stream, and lost for ever. The few anecdotes which I purpose to give in illustration...

...These indeed are innumerable, and we can never want opportunities in this sense of any sort or kind. " The poor we have always with us, and when we will " we may do them good." There will be always ignorance, weakness, folly, sin, and misery enough in the world, to furnish us...

...appointed and ordered the distinctions of rich and poor ; and has so contrived, that we have the poor always with us, and when we will we may do them good. And as the rich are obliged to relieve the poor, so even the poor also, in pro• Tol.it iv. 8, 9....

...will not be without their use. Or we may put the matter thus : \ve know, on good authority, that " the poor we have always with us ;" and when we will, we may do them good. Now, in a simple state of society, a man may know tolerably well what his duties to the poor are. When...

...These indeed are innumerable, and we can never want opportunities in this sense of any sort or kind. " The poor we have always with us, " and when we will we may do them good." There will be always ignorance, weakness, folly, sin, and misery enough in the world, to furnish us...

...ornamenting the houses of God in the land, and providing the means of grace for those who lack it. The poor we have always with us, and when we will we may do them good : this is a duty of all times ; but there are other calls which in our own time are especially pressing...

...I would place in the hands of some public body, say the Town Council, to give as they thought best. The poor we have always with us, and when we will we may do them good. I enclose my card, and remain, dear sir, Respectfully yours, Nov. 22, 1871. CHARITY. WITNELL'S ALMS...

...cannot abolish illness, we cannot abolish the entire range of incapacity, we cannot abolish misfortune. The poor we have always with us, and when we will we can do them good. There will be stranded strangers in great cities while the world rolls. But let us...

...Society will not be without their use. Or we may put the matter thus : we know, on good authority, that " the poor we have always with us ;" and when we will, we may do them good. Now, in a simple state of society, a man may know tolerably well what his duties to the poor are. When...