The Influence of Bible Societies on the Temporal Necessities of the PoorOliphant, Waugh & Innes, and W. White, 1818 - 44 pages |
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act of charity annihilate annual sum argument assertion awaken the benevolent BALFOUR & CLARKE become wilfully behalf beneficence betwixt Bible Association Bible Society blessing carries ciety claims comfort conceivable coun counteract defence dependence descent to pauperism distress economical habits economy EDINBURGH effect England enlightened exertions extension of pauperism extent feel fund for reliev give their penny giver GLASGOW habits of expenditure heart idleness individual benevolence indolence industry INFLUENCE OF BIBLE institution labouring land leave lence liberalities maintenance ment mischief Missionaries Moravians neighbour ness object operation peasantry penny a-week Penny Associations perism pleading point of fact poor rates pounds Sterling princi principle PRINTED BY BALFOUR public charity pulation receive relief of temporal religious revenue rich Scotland second parish secular necessities secular wants sensibly encroach socie stand completely free subscribers superfluities sympathy tacle tion true untouched verty voidable voluntary descent wiser distribution
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Page 19 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 16 - It is quite vain to think that positive relief will ever do away the wretchedness of poverty. Carry the relief beyond a certain limit, and you foster the diseased principle which gives birth to poverty. * * * The remedy against the extension of pauperism does not lie in the liberalities of the rich ; it lies in the hearts and habits of the poor. Plant in their bosoms a principle of independence—give a high tone of delicacy to their characters— teach them to recoil from pauperism as a degradation.
Page 25 - It brings up their economy to a higher pitch ; but it does so, not in the way which they resist, but in the way which they choose. The single circumstance of its being a voluntary act, forms the defence and the answer to all the clamours of an affected sympathy. You take from the poor. No ! they give. You take beyond their ability ! Of this they are the best judges. You abridge their comforts ! No ! there is a comfort in the exercise of charity ; there is a comfort in the act of lending a hand to...
Page 6 - ... the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is teaching that class of the community, into whose hands so soon the destinies of this country will fall, the precepts of inviolable justice, and eternal truth. But more than all, it is implanting in the bosoms of millions of immortal souls, "that knowledge which is able to make them wise unto salvation, through the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
Page 15 - The education and the religious principle of Scotland have not annihilated pauperism, but they have restrained it to a degree that is almost incredible to our neighbours of the south : they keep down the mischief in its principle ; they impart a sobriety and a right sentiment of independence to the character of our peasantry ; they operate as a check upon profligacy and idleness. The maintenance of parish schools is a burden upon the landed property of Scotland, but it is a cheap defence against...
Page 14 - ... is filled, a stream as copious as before is formed out of its overflow. The most effectual method, were it possible to carry it into accomplishment, would be, to dry up the source.
Page 18 - Could we reform the improvident habits of the people, and pour the healthful infusion of scripture principle into their hearts, it would reduce the existing poverty of the land to a very humble fraction of its present extent.
Page 25 - ... there is a comfort in the contemplation of its progress; there is a comfort in rendering a service to a friend, and when that friend is the Saviour, and that service the circulation of the message he left behind him, it is a comfort which many of the poor are ambitious to share in. Leave them to judge of their comfort, and if, in point of fact, they do give their penuy a-week to a Bible Society...
Page 26 - They do not conceive how truth and benevolence can be at all objects to them ; and suppose, that after they have got the meat to feed, the house to shelter, the raiment to cover them, there is nothing else that they will bestow a penny upon. They may not be able to express their feelings on a suspicion so ungenerous, but I shall do it for them: " We have souls as well as you, and precious to our hearts is the Saviour who died for them. It is true, we have our distresses ; but these have bound us...
Page 5 - Society represented as an encroachment upon that fund which was before allocated to the relief of poverty.