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benevolent Scottish and other national associations are help- 

 ful in relieving the necessities of their poor and needy fellow 

 countrymen, but their work does not require buildings and 

 so, though it is very real, it is not easily seen. 



Time forbids to notice the work of ladies' charitable so- 

 cieties, young people's associations and other bands of Chris- 

 tian workers connected with the churches. These are all 

 doing excellent service, and exemplify one of the truest works 

 of a living Christianity, which is to "remember the poor," 

 and to "visit tlie fatherless and the widows in their affliction." 





