Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 325, 17 November 1891 — Charity. [ARTICLE]

Charity.

St. Faul bv iu&piratk>ii, ēpea&eUi < f this -grfcateet of u!2 giifits that ■; s i nan uatnre eaa e.vev poss«BS in ihīs mm. V4 Though 1 «Deak with i h.* tongue- el'uieu and of ango)s f at:d have not eharit\\ I am hoeome u-s4 souiuling hras*f, or a «jlangirig cympal. And thongh i hnve tho t't * of prophe«;y : ind <mdort*t;*nd all inyriterieK. and all knowl«dge; and' though I have ali faith» so that I oou'Jd remove mouituins, nnd havc? not ehajitv. I aiu noihiug. And though 1 hesu>w ail in\ g.>ods to feed the poor, and though I give uiy body to be burned. and have not charity. it profiteth ine nothing. Ciiaritv suffereth It ng, and is kind; ch.4rity envieth not;'e.harity s ? aunt* e.lti not itself, 1h nut pulled up, \v-.. * * * A«id i»o\v abideth taith, (iape, eharitv, iheye thrce; but ihe greatest of theße is eharity. ;, Thib is ivhat tht Ho\irce e.i uii U jsdoiu, the great aposti« in tell tbe Chureh of Coriuth, and thro»gh Ihem to the bo. lyofi hrigt-

ians to the end of the worid, bf whieh we £re a part. With this bea«tiful exposition of the true meaning of this godiike gift, that man tnay possess, aad ehould possess as a true Christian, we are pained to here of the uneharitableness of eome of our wealthy professing ChristianBi men, whoare loud in their contribut4ons of thousands of dollars, for okmehm and other charities where there is aprospect of obtaining fifty or one ha&* dred per cent in return. They give with trumpet sound with one h&nd r and with the other they squeezē the lastpennyottt «f a poor m&n or wox»an for some nnavoidable obli* gatiou that they may be undar to tbes6 eouliess vampires. Within a few davs, to our knowledge, we are credibly infomoed that one of these k>ud 4 atid ratiting ChFistians, was ready toturna poor man and his wife with their ehildren from one of his many housēs in this city, becau»e they were an'abk> to pay ten dollars in advaiioo for thei r mohthly lrent; and whea, money was obtained to pay thfe rent, a fews days after, refused even to accept it for a titee. Besides the foregoing case of unQueen S.treet Merchant. we have ;nstance of an unfortunate woman. with iive childr9£ whose husbaiid is away seebing employment. This woman lately lost her reason and is now an inmate of the lnsane Asyluui/ The 4 woman having been ā source of great comfort in prophcsying good luek for and keeping avvyv aU evil fromaccrtain lady of very high station in tbe land % the latter was asked if she woakl give some heli» towards the maintenance of thechil<iren. Her assistance enine i n the shape of the foj - lowing reply. lt these are foreignern iostead of Hawu iiau suhjects. they had better appoal to theirconSUI. '■■■ This pagan dispositH»n i.s unitBuril in a lady, who tries (o liiake people think that she is Christi.au. And detestable in a uian, especially when that inan is credited to | be very wealthy. sorue ove.n going : so far as to say that he uwns a large portion of a city tliat is grow- i ing very rapidl3' in vftiue.