No sooner does the first facetious star wink upon this Eve, than all the English-speaking millions of this Boston-crowned earth begin casting off their hatreds, meannesses, uncharities, and Carlyleisms, as a garment, and, in a beautiful spirit of no objections to anybody, proceed to think what can be done for the poor in the way of sincerely wishing them well.

Special Intentions, For the sick poor of Ireland; for persons dying without the last sacraments; for those dying all alone; for dying sinners.

We are not born to go out of the world as poor as when we came into it.

The poverty was abject, the relief futile and the hatred of the poor for the rich was inflammatory.

Politicians may steal the Goddess of Liberty poorer than JOB'S old Maskaline Gobbler.

Previously to this date, it had been customary to relieve the able-bodied poor at their own houses.

Then he learns not to make his children poor by his sin.

The richer from interest, the poorer from bigotry, and the priesthood from instinct, poured contempt even on proselytes, whom they classified according to their supposed degrees of heterodoxy.

Whoever came poor to him he gave him pieces of money.

The Governor called upon rich Moors to supply the poor with arms.

At least, if the rich be confined by an imaginary line across, the poor on the other side will notthey will cross it freely enough; and what they will bring with them will be concern enough of ours.

We have been reading of a hundred thousand armed men encamped in the suburbs of Belleville and Montmartre, with cannon and mitrailleuses, uttering through their organs, threats which leave no doubt that the meaning of this movement isas some of them boldly phrase it,a war of the poor against the rich.

But then would not the world be the poorer without "De Profundis," let us ask?

Rich and poor among her citizens vied with each other in devotion to their country.

I think there is a strangeness in the idea, as well as "shaking the poor like snakes from his door," which suits the speaker.

To wipe out this hideous shame, to put ourselves all in one boat, and, if war is licensed murder, at all events to share the murder that we license, and not to starve the poor into criminals for our own relief, perhaps Conscription would not be too high a price to pay.

In old times Leicester House had stood on Lammas landland in the spirit of the old charities, open to the poor after Lammas-tide; and even 'the Right Hon.

I shall be reminded of all that has been done, and done well too, for the poor during the last generation, and bidden not to calumniate my countrymen.

Sympathy with the sick poor around her for whom no medical aid was available, early led Mary Whately to dispense simple remedies and especially to distribute medicine to relieve the terribly prevalent ophthalmia.

I may quote from an essay of Mr. Frederic Harrison an anecdote which admirably expresses the becoming attitude of the poor towards ecclesiastical institutions.

The gospel of Christ was preached to the poor before his death and his asserted resurrection and ascension.

Those who robbed the poor under various guises were made to feel the hand of the law.

Whatever else I cannot understand, I can at least 'understand the lovingkindness of the Lord;' however high his dwelling may be, I know that he humbleth himself to behold the things in heaven and earth, to take the simple out of the dust, and the poor out of the mire.

"Lord, Thou preparest their hearts and Thine ear hearkeneth thereto, to help the fatherless and poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

It is customary to keep them in the woods all winter, as there is no thrashing or fold-yards; and they must live on the roots of trees, or something of that sort, but they are poor beyond any creature that I ever saw.