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affliction ALFRED FITCH amount Annual assistance BART benevolent Bevan blessing Brought forward Carried forward charity Charles Christian City-road Clarke Commercial-road Committee confined Corderoy Coutts Coutts and Co destitute distress DISTRICT SECRETARIES District Treasurers District.-Mr Ditto DOWAGER Drummond employment Exeter Hall Fenton Former Contribs FRIEND SOCIETY George gratitude Grosvenor-street Hackney Hackney-road Harley-street Hatchard Henry High Holborn High-street Hoare Holborn Hoxton husband Hyde-park individuals Institution Islington James John JOHN RIGG Joseph Kent-road labours LADY Lambeth Limehouse Lombard-street London LORD lying-in Mackie Meeting Messrs metropolis misery months Nisbet objects obtain Office parcel of clothing pecuniary PETER BRAMES poor family poor woman Portland-place present received Regent's-park relief afforded Report Robert Rotherhithe Russell-square s. d. Dons Shillings Shoreditch sickness Smith spiritual Spitalfields Strand STRANGERS street Subs Subscribers Subscriptions suffering temporal THOMAS FARMER tion Upper Visiters Walton Walworth Westminster wife William wretched wretchedness Yatman
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Page lxiii - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page xli - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page lx - hungered and ye gave me Meat, naked and ye clothed me, sick 'and in Prison, and ye visited me.
Page xxxii - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page xxxv - Be a Father to the fatherless, and a Husband to the widow, for Jesus
Page xxx - He found his way into a class-meeting ; its ferventminded members gathered around him and directed him to " the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world," and while they were praying for him, light and comfort broke in upon his struggling spirit.
Page lvi - secures yon against being imposed upon. So practised are its engines, so principled are its officers, that you may be certain that whatsoever is given through its instrumentality, will reach the most distressed, and at the same time the most deserving.