...in acts of kindness to our fellow-men. Sufficient objects will ever surround us : "the poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good." " To do good, then, and to communicate, forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. For...

...and pain and want and disease are written in the very charter of our existence. " The poor ye have always " with you, and whensoever ye will, ye may do " them good." Vain then and delusive, or worse than vain, is the wish to extirpate from the condition of human life...

...can do to shew Him my love and gratitude. Then I remember what our Saviour said, ''Ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good." (Markxiv. 7.) " Verily, verily, 1 say upto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of...

...is very unnecessary and unbecoming in a minister of Jesus Christ. Our Lord said, ' The poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good.' People in general are pleased and honoured and delighted with a visit from the preacher or pastor....

...frequently done, especially when so favourable an opportunity presented itself. " For the poor you have always with you, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good, but me ye have not always.'' There are seasons, my beloved friends, for honouring the Saviour, which...

...mysterious to our finite reason, was confirmed by the lip of the incarnate LORD : " The poor ye have always with you ; and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good.' Between these two extremes, the profusely rich, and the abjectly impoverished, many gradations exist...

...in the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah. To prayer and fasting add, Almsgiving. — " The poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good." If they need not shelter, they may need fuel, or food, or clothing, or medicine. If they have all these,...

...seeing it was one of the last that dropped from the lips of his Divine Master : " The poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good." The want of that will would argue an absence of the spirit most strongly inculcated throughout the...

...a sick one to comfort, or an ignorant one to instruct. As to the latter points, " The poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good," is the saying of the Lord Jesus Christ — like all his sayings, simple to the utmost degree, but in...

...before them to receive the tokens of their gratitude. Me ye have not always ; but the poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good. The sentence pronounced upon the ground for Adam's sake, shall never be removed ; and there will always...