The Visitor of the PoorHilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1832 - 211 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xxiii - And inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me...
الصفحة 137 - To give assistance at the right moment; not to prolong it beyond the duration of the necessity which calls for it ; but to extend, restrict, and modify relief, according to that necessity.
الصفحة 176 - ... make of a lady, who had much mind, and was thought to have extreme sensibility. She swooned at the recital of an accident : she could not bear to see a tiler on a house ; her table was covered with romances ; no one was more eloquent in expatiating on the interests of humanity; — she was admired by both sexes. But she was not liberal ; she was not even careful to pay her debts ; her house was in disorder ; no one commended her temper. She neither knew how to diffuse happiness, nor to be happy....
الصفحة 158 - Who should be called to the office of ' Visitor of the poor,' " and ask attention especially to the following extracts from it. " To whom shall this difficult, delicate, and sometimes painful ministry, whose functions have been described, be confided? — We answer, to all those who will consent to accept the burden ; whatever may be their sex, age, or condition, provided they have virtue enough to feel the value of it, and judgment and experience enough to be capable of fulfilling it with wisdom.
الصفحة xxiii - And that servant who knew his master's will, but did not make ready or act according to his will, shall receive a severe beating. 48 But he who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, shall receive a light beating. Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required; and of him to whom men commit much they will demand the more.
الصفحة xix - IF a person could be persuaded of this principle as he ought, that we are all originally descended from God, and that he is the Father of gods and men, I conceive he never would think meanly or degenerately concerning himself.
الصفحة ix - We are instruments of the most important good to our suffering fellow creatures ... by assisting them to understand the true causes of their sufferings, when these sufferings are the results of imprudence, or extravagance, or idleness, or intemperance, or of other moral causes which are within their own control.
الصفحة iv - Its design is to awaken, and give excitement to a sense of human relations, wherever sensibility on this great subject is sluggish and inactive ; and wisely direct it, where it is either wasting its power in comparatively useless efforts, or is perhaps occasioning evil by the very means by which it intends, and hopes for good. For this end, it proposes to make the great classes of the rich and the poor, of the strong and the feeble, of the wise and the unwise, and of the virtuous and the vicious...
الصفحة 175 - Providence sends on man. He discovered a new aspect of human life, which if he had vaguely suspected, he was unwilling to define to himself. But the voice of God's creatures was heard ; the tears of a widow, the languid eye of an old man met the eyes of the man of the world, and melted his heart. Questions were asked, and heart-rending details were obtained. Faculties and powers, till then slumbering, were waked up in the soul of the man of the world ; his mind became concentrated, and he returned...
الصفحة v - ... virtuous and the vicious known to each other. It proposes to bring these classes together, not by confounding the distinctions between them, but by making the virtuous, and wise, and strong, and prospered feel, that by communicating of what they have received, and by acting as the instruments of God's goodness towards those from whom he has made them to differ, they are at once accomplishing the purposes for which he instituted the diversities which we see of human condition ; and are most effectually...