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under God's blessing, are known to impart. Surely 

 it is more blessed to give to the support of such 

 charities, than to receive large supplies to our store, 

 without the heart "to do good and to communicate.'' 

 (Heb., xiii., 16.) Would that such, if such there be, 

 who refuse their aid to suffering humanity, would 

 only sometimes visit the abodes of poverty and sick- 

 ness so thickly scattered around. Let them turn 

 from their well appointed and spacious dwelhngs to 

 the squalid and crowded abodes of the poor and 

 miserable. Look at yon uncurtained, scanty, uneasy, 

 and ill-furnished bed ! There lies one with all the 

 pains to which you may have been subject, perhaps 

 with more and greater, but without the means of 

 alleviation which you possess. Remove that suf- 

 ferer, in imagination, to one of the airy, comfortable, 

 well-supplied wards of your future hospital ; remem- 

 ber, that there all which human skill can effect, will 

 be done for him ; — reflect, that you have contributed 

 to providing him with skill, medicines, care, and 

 attendance, such as his means never could have pro- 

 cured. Think of the advantage to the poor, to have 

 secured for them the well known talents of the medi- 

 cal profession in these towns, — " You know the 

 men and their communication," and see then, whether 

 you will not realize the fulness of our Lord's declar- 

 ation — " It is more blessed to give than to receive." 



