Inhabitants and Citizens of Munich. 5 1 7 



or by any other artifices ; nor can they escape the strict 

 and constant vigilance with which they will in future 

 be watched, when every person they meet will direct 

 them to the House of Industry, instead of giving them 

 money. 



It is this regulation alone which can effectuate our 



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purpose, a regulation enforced in the days of primi- 

 tive Christianity, and sanctioned by religion itself ; the 

 charitable gifts of the wealthier Christians being in 

 those days all deposited in a common treasury, for the 

 benefit of their poorer and distressed brethren, and not 

 squandered away in the encouragement of dissolute 

 idleness. 



We therefore entreat and beseech the public in gen- 

 eral, in the name of suffering humanity, and of that 

 Almighty Being who cannot but regard so laudable 

 an enterprise with an eye of favour, to give every 

 possible support to our design. And we trust that 

 the clergy of every denomination, but especially the 

 public preachers, will exert their splendid abilities to 

 animate their congregations to co-operate with us in 

 this great and important undertaking. 



