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Show Beeciier os Indiscriminate Charity. Char-ity. Tnere ia that passage in Matthew, "Give to him that a.-kelb thee, aud from him that would bornt of thee turn uot Ibouaway;'' if you take that literally I wiii give the world a hundred years to go to hell altogether in a heap. It was tried once in Italy, iu the Rorunii c buret.; it raised up 500 heggars, 5,000 hfs-gar, hfs-gar, 500,000 beggars. By that 1 c.iarity of the Roman church tin-'state tin-'state v;a almost ruineJ, the whole j manhood of Ihe old Italian race was , biottcd out. Uy a system of iudis-, iudis-, criminate charity you corrupt men to i the very core; that system which undertakes to make tho church Oi the state take care of men ia sure to : corrupt mankind to the very bj'.tom. When you undertake to help men, ( the proper way is to help themselves. I thirk that the charity which this church ua-gfixteuded duriug ail .years of my minisrry ha3 b.en more harmful than it has b;en beneficial, and the true axiom is, uext to iht-: iht-: want of charity the uiOrt daugerous thing charity. |