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.Thesfoiiewing aiiecd0te nom Noail's Weekly
Messenger, beautifully illustrates the principles of
charity, and adnonishes US that it is often for our
interestto feed the hungry, and clothe the naked"


THE WORLD.
-'Sir, bring me a good plain dinner said mel
-anchoy individual to waiter at one Of our prin'
cipal hotels. - -


Yes SIR - = ; -
The dinner was Brought and devoured, and the
eater called the landlord aside, and thus addressed
him


You are ths.landlord4i =
-<Yes' =. =, -.
You do good business here g.'.- :
Yes Tin astonishmeatf
You make-pEobabty-Slo Slo day clears


sThen am. safe. cannot paw for what /
have eonsunedj 1 have beeHou Of employmene
seven months but have engaged to go to work
tomorrow. have been without food four and.
twenty hours when entered your place. Will
pay you in a week .- r.-r
! cannot pay my bills with such promises
blustefed the landlord, and do not keep poor
house Yeushould address the proper authori
ties. Leave me something for sesur1y'
{ l have nothing .-..
L will take your coat


qf I,go into the streets withe that wifi gef
nay death such weather as it is.'


You should have thought of that before you
came here, =:


You are serious2 WE'LL Isolenanly aver that
one week from now 1 will pay YOU
Il will take The coat
The coat,was left, and in week afterwards re-
deemed. -


Seyen years after that a wealthy man entered
the political arena and was presented at caucus as
an applicant for a Congressional nomination
The principal of the caucus held his peace-he
heard the name and history of the applicant who
was member of a church, and one of the most
respectable. citizens He was chairman The
vote was tie and he cast egative-therebyde
feating the wealthy applicant whom he met an
hodr afterwards and to whom he said
You don't remember me2 g,
NO.
Il once ate dinner in your hotel, and although
told you was famishng, and pledged my word
and honor TO pay you in week, you took my
coat and saw me go into the incement air, at the
risk ofmy life without it


FWeL, sir, what then2'


Not much. You called yourselfa christian.
Tonight yeu were candidate for nomination.
and but for me you would have been elected to
Congress-
Three years after. the christian hotel.keeper be-
came bankrupt and sought home at BeIlevide
The poor diHnerlcss wretch that was, is now a
high functionary 10 Albany We know him we'll
The ways of providence are indeed wonderful,
and the worlds mutations almost beyond 'concep-
ton and belief


