Blair Collection > Practical grammar of the antient Gaelic, or, Language of the Isle of Man, usually called Manks

tliat deliglit wliicli arises from being the authors of good to the
necessitous !
Observe the simphcity of those children, and let pity move
your feelings ! Observe their supplicating innocence ! Oh, save
their innocence, and let God-like charity melt your souls !
When I behold the respectableness of this congreg*ation, and
that approving earnestness depicted on every countenance, I per-
ceive the cause of the poor to have prevailed. " May much peace
and happiness rest upon the head and heart of every one of
you !"* And, as " the poor shall never cease out of your land, I
command you, saying. Ye shall open your hand wide unto your
brethren, to your poor, and to the needy in your land ;." and rest
assured that, though you " cast your bread upon the waters, you
shall find it after many days •,"-\ " you shall eat the labour of
your hands, and see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the
Uving ;"\ but if not in the land of the living, doubtless you
shall hereafter; for I have the authority of God himself to de-
clare that in that great and solemn day, when you and all the
nations of the earth shall stand before the tribunal of Christ, to
give an account of the things done in the body, the charity§
which you shall bestow this day shall cover a multitude of sins,
and it shall, " like the blood of Jesus," plead for you, until
you shall hear from Him the joyful sound, " Inasmuch as you
have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, you have
done it unto Me : well done, good and faithful servants, enter ye
into the joy of your Lord/'||
* iSterue. t Eccl. xi. 1. X Ps. cxxviii. 2; xxvii. 15.
§ 1 Teter iv. 7, 8. || Matt. xxv. 21, 40.