...splendors. Rather does it acquire new lustre from every new dispensation of its glories. Like charity, it is twice blessed : It " blesses him that gives and him that takes." Thus by the law and appointment of Nature, man is made the teacher of his fellow-man ; and...

...inasmuch as it is more blessed to give than to receive. The Medical art is thus like charity itself— " It is twice blessed ; It blesses him that gives, and him that takes," Let, then, the Practitioner and the Student of medicine, add to erudition and skill the gentleness...

...judgments. ' The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven — It is twice blessed ; It blesses him that gives, and him that takes.' " I leave you, gentlemen, hoping you will be directed in your inquiry and judgment to a right...

...Christian's crowning grace. It might ever be seen gleaming from the life of the meek and lowly Jesus. It is twice blessed. It blesses him that gives and him that takes. It is that love which beareth all things and eudureth all things — which suffereth all things...

...? If it be human to err, is it not divine to forgive ? " The quality of mercy is not'strained. , » It is twice blessed— It blesses him that gives and him that takep. It is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown." He...

...the gift. There is no more blessed service than this; and if its quality be not strained, like mercy, "it is twice blessed; it blesses him that gives and him that takes," — "for God loveth a cheerful giver." !H[bfit. Rev. Geo. D. Downey, Missionary to Miles City,...

...compassion and relief, to distress and misery. It goes much beyond this : it is a well-spring of good-will to men, and reaps positive delight from the increase and extension of human happiness. The field of Benevolence is boundless, for it embraces all that can aid or advance human happiness,...

...necessary. In heaven there is nothing to call it forth. Here we must b& merciful in order to obtain mercy. " It is twice blessed, it blesses him that gives and him that takes." Here also is peacemaking. " Blessed are the peacemakers." A peacemaker must be a great man....

...Shakespeare from memory — " Mercy droppeth like the gentle dew from heaven Upon the earth beneath. It is twice blessed : It blesses him that gives and him that doth receive. "I gave it. All I had I gave with your benediction. Their pretty eyes filled with tears....

...distribution. What the poet has so well said of charity is pre-eminently true of such a charity as this : ' It is twice blessed ; it blesses him that gives and him that takes.' It extends to the widow, the fatherless, and the orphan a salutary and much needed relief;...