 | Christianity - 1819 - 818 pages
...providence in this way to Imk man with man ; to excite and keep alive benevolence, by making them feel tbeir mutual dependence. Thus even under the Jewish economy...land ;' and they were taught by several affecting pre• cepts, to feed the hungry, to give alms to the poor, and to impart liberally from their abundance.... | |
 | St. Andrew's Society of the City of Albany - 1903 - 192 pages
...submitted the following report for 1873 : In the most favored days of the Hebrew Commonwealth the people were told that the poor should never cease out of the land. After three thousand years have passed away this truth is as applicable to us in America as it was... | |
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... to feed the hungry, to give alms to the poor, and to impart liberally from their abundance. — " When thou cuttest down thine harvest in " thy field, and hast forgot 'a sheaf in the field, 