CHRISTIAN CHARITY.
{"newspaper_name": "The Columbian fountain.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 1735, "word_count": 301, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9441999793052673], "ccnet_perplexity": [1522.300048828125], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
Christian charity is universal benevo-
lence, obeying the injunctian, dove thy
neighbor as thyself,' and being always in
readiness, without grudging, TO bestow their
goods to feed the poor, as their Heavenly
Father in his bounliful goodness hath given
unto them all things necessary for life and
godliness.


AS faithful stewards ofthe manifold grace
Of God, it is the duty ofall Christians TO ap-
propriate the means which he has placed IN
their hands, TO the furtherance of his cause,
and the relief of his needy followers, not
burying the Lords money as slothlul ser
wants, nor laying up treasures on earth,
where moth and dust doth corrupt, and
thieves break through and steal. The word
Of charity is also employed in the sense Of
love. The Apostle Paul, writing to the
church of Corinth uses it in this-he says :
Though speak with the tongues Of men,
and angels, and have not charity, | am
become as sounding brass or tinklng sym
bol. And though | have the gift of prophe-
CIV, and understand all mysteries, and all
knowledge: and though have all faith, so
that could remove mountains, and have
not charity, am nothing. And though
bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and
though give my body to be burned, and
have no charity, it profteth me nothing
Charity suhereth long and is kind; charity
envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is
not pulled up, doth not behave unseemly,
seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity
but rejoiceth in truth; beareth all things
beleveth all things, hopeth all things, en-.
dureth all things. Charity never faileth.'-
And in concluding the chapter, he says =
'And now abideth faith, hope, charity, thes,
three, but the greatest of these is charity