...that the Church with her large claims and primitive faith is not unmindful of her Master's charge? "The poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will ye may do them service." As I regard this Christian institution awaiting completion, and realize how many calls will...

...and to imitate him in acts of kindness to our fellow-men. Sufficient objects will ever surround us : "the poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good." " To do good, then, and to communicate, forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. For...

...can do to shew Him my love and gratitude. Then I remember what our Saviour said, ''Ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good." (Markxiv. 7.) " Verily, verily, 1 say upto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of...

...his disciples, at their approaching separation, he said, " me ye have not always, but the poor are always with you, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good." An obligation is thus created, to extend to them the same compassion, which we would have shown to...

...!' But all this is very unnecessary and unbecoming in a minister of Jesus Christ. Our Lord said, ' The poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good.' People in general are pleased and honoured and delighted with a visit from the preacher or pastor....

...frequently done, especially when so favourable an opportunity presented itself. " For the poor you have always with you, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good, but me ye have not always.'' There are seasons, my beloved friends, for honouring the Saviour, which...

...and especially in the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah. To prayer and fasting add, Almsgiving. — " The poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good." If they need not shelter, they may need fuel, or food, or clothing, or medicine. If they have all these,...

...Christian should forget, seeing it was one of the last that dropped from the lips of his Divine Master : " The poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good." The want of that will would argue an absence of the spirit most strongly inculcated throughout the...

...justified the conduct of Mary, though he never countenanced extravagance or waste. " The poor," added he, " ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good ; but me ye have not always." Still "Judas had the bag;" and I think it very likely that Mary, her...

...countenanced waste at any time, or did not require men always to give to the poor, He answered Judas, " The poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good, but me ye have not always." It was right, then, to expend much on Christ, as their Master and heavenly...