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probably amount to upwards of twenty millions of 

 people. 



Some of these are too poor to give more than a few 

 pence now and again, or a little food ; others give more 

 liberally, according to their means, while others give 

 their hundreds and thousands of pounds, many of the 

 wealthy setting aside a certain part of their vast income 

 for this unostentatious work, quite apart from their 

 great public gifts to hospitals and other charitable in- 

 stitutions, which are blazoned abroad in the news- 

 papers. 



From the following examples we may be able to 

 deduce something that will enable us to form a crude 

 idea of the colossal proportions of that beneficent shape 

 called CHARITY, whose radiant form is ever brighten- 

 ing the homes of those who are in sore need of her 

 ministering grace. 



The table is compiled from information supplied by 

 personal friends, of what they pay in poor-rates and 

 what they give annually in private charities. 



The persons enumerated may be regarded as repre- 

 sentative, as it will be seen that they are drawn from 

 many grades of society; while the amounts paid in Poor 

 Rates and Charities are the average of several years : 



