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by James W. Alexander

Section LXXXIV

Personal Beneficence

All men find it easier to give money, than to give their actual services. Yet these are the most important and the most delightful acts of mercy. Begin at once to seek out cases of suffering. The most deserving are those which will never come to you. Accus-

1 Cor. 16: fc

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torn yourself to minister to the sick poor. Shrink not from any mortification incident to the work of interesting other benevolent persons in objects of charity. But by no means forego the sacred and self-regarding duty of going yourself to the house of want or of mourning. “Pure religion (the word means religious service) and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”*

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