Give the criminal classes those favourable conditions in prison which if many of them had had out of prison they would never have become criminals. Remove the stumbling-block from the path of the young, for if you do not do that when you can, you are no better than those who cause Christ's little ones to offend. 119. Lastly, it is the duty of society never to cease pardoning, for Christ said that seventy times seven was not too often to forgive an erring brother. Treat the debased, not upon the lowest, but upon the highest platform of human feeling; believe in them, and your faith will remove mountains. That is how Garibaldi bowed the hearts of the degraded population of Southern Italy as the heart of one man. That is how a greater than Garibaldi conquered the world. To be good to the unthankful, to be kind to the faithless, that is a hard lesson, but it is the lesson of the cross, it is the very love of God, for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 120. Oh, for the broad, and the tender, and the unwearied heart of Jesus! We cannot go on long enough, working, and praying, and loving, and waiting. We give in, we are so soon discouraged. We will have instant results or none, the first check dispirits us. A man experiences some ingratitude or rebuff, where he was trying to do good, and he says he won't be taken in again. A person loses his temper, because some one has not thanked him. Because others are cold, we cannot be kind; because others are evil, we cannot be good. We sink to their level instead of rising above it. Rise higher. Learn from Christ, who was lifted up, how to draw all men unto you; learn to think for them, to feel for them, to work for them, to suffer for them. Provide conditions. Pardon offences. Prove love. So shall you be the disciples of One who died with a malefactor on his right hand and on his left, and in dying opened Paradise to the criminal. 121. Paul on Charity. 122. Charity and Almsgiving. 123. Benevolence and Beneficence. 124. Pauperism is decreasing. 125. Act of 1834. 126. Sound Principles. PAUPERISM. 127. Public Opinion must Act on the right lines. 128. Decrease of Pauperism coincides with the Rise of Chanty Organisation. 129. The Charity Organisation Society. 130. Attention invited to Causes of Pauperism. 131. First Cause, Intemperance. 136. Improvidence Encouraged. 139. Drink and Gluttony promoted. 143. How the Poor-Law arose. 146. Emigration. 147. Hereditary Pauperism. 148. Striking Case. 149. Rescue the Children. 150. Compulsory Education. 154. The Salmon and the Fly. 156. The Exceptional Shilling. 162. The Provident Knowledge Society. 169. The Latest Calumny exposed. 178. Personal Help. 179. How to proceed. 180. The "C.O.S." Circulars. IV. PAUPERISM. HE Apostle Paul, in that great thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, on charity, remarks: Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing;" and he might have added, "nor any one else either," for indeed alms given without thoughtful love are in every sense goods given to feed the poor with no profit, but not without damage to all parties concerned. 122. We are apt to confuse the word charity with almsgiving, yet the two are quite distinct. You may be very free with your alms and yet not be charitable; for charity means love, |