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CHARITY. 379
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LXXIV.- CHARITY. A
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Gentle her step, and calm her mien, as o...
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The Committee Have To Record Increased •...
of the facts which , come within the daily experience of most woman persons , ( and and which often include on those not dependent only the suffering on her ) which by her falls being on a
debarred from remunerative work fitted to her powers , but also the deterioration and the waste of energies , consequent on the
indolence which has grown upon the women of the non-working class . which Every foster one can these do evils something ; and so towards help in diminishing preventing the the distress prejudices for
which it is so difficult to find a remedy . * * Lord Brougham , in Ms opening Address had to the been Social ori Science founded Congress b
Miss last month Parkes , having and Miss stated Faithfull that the the Society error has since been ginally corrected ; Miss y _Boueherett ( as is well known to , most of our readers ) being the founder of
the Society .
Charity. 379
CHARITY . 379
Lxxiv.- Charity. A
LXXIV .- CHARITY . A
Gentle Her Step, And Calm Her Mien, As O...
Gentle her step , and calm her mien , as one of heavenly birth , Yet ent in to sojourn this blihted earth
The s youngest mercy , but the best beloved upon , of those g sweet sisters ; three ,. For what were Faith , and what were Hope , without en Charity ?*
She watching stood beside the Cross , she heard her dying Lord , And every blessed word He spake is in her memory stored ;
And every tender thought He had in mercy towards mankind , Is treasured up within her heart , has passed into her mind .
And when her Lord ascended , and she was all bereft , Her only thought was doing that which He undone had left ;
Of following Him with humble zeal , in showing deeds of love , Till that on earth His will be done , as it is done above .
, She stood beside St . Peter , when the sick around him lay , Foroh ! it was her pitying love which took their pains away ;
And , she was with St . Stephen when the holy martyr prayed , That the men might be forgiven by whom he was betrayed .
In every clime and place where'er the Gospel sound is heard , She prompts all men to act upon the Spirit of the Word ;
And in the present polished times , as in the ages rude , She ever doth remain the same , —her work is doing good .
She binds the broken-hearted , and she uplifts the meek , The captive in the dungeon , the suffering and the weak ;
She turns aside the fiery darts by cruel envy thrown , The voice of passion calms beneath the sweetness of her own .
When pestilence stalks through the earth , and friends and all are fled , She stands as Aaron stoodbetween the living and the dead .
, When scarcity and famine fall , she opes her garner'd store-
—The poor folk kiss her shadow as she flits from door to door ee . 2
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/19/
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