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a wintry world ? Yet, alas ; poor Doghery, and 

 many a poor creature like him, could tell a tale of 

 similar desertion, ending in the destruction of the 

 body. The fault rests not with those who take 

 compassion on the perishing victims of popery. 

 We must often say with the apostle, " Silver and 

 gold have I none," but, shall we not proceed to 

 add, *' such as I have, give I thee ;" and while we 

 behold the immortal spirit lying helpless under the 

 deadening influence of his paralizing disease, are 

 we to refrain from the sequel, " In the name of 

 Jesus of Nazareth arise and walk," because the 

 alms that depended on the continuance of his in- 

 firmity may then fail ; and we may be unable to 

 provide him with an immediate subsistence? 

 Even in a temporal visitation, this would be cruel 

 policy ; how then can we dare to act upon it in 

 spiritual cases ? No ; we must proclaim deliver- 

 ance to the captives, though, from lack of service 

 on the part of those who gave the means, we 

 thereby expose them to starvation, if they escape 

 a more immediate and more violent end. 



It is certain, that when one of the poor of this 

 world becomes so rich in faith as to be enabled to 

 sacrifice all for Christ, by openly separating from 

 the communion of idolatrous Rome, the means of 

 daily subsistence will fail, so long as he continues 

 among the people whom his poverty precludes him 

 from leaving. The great mass of Irish poor, in 



