...present treatise cannot mean almsgiving, is evident from the assertion of the apostle, where he says—" C w| 2 Wf* nothing." The meaning of the term is LOVE, and so it is rendered in many other passages of the New...

...present treatise cannot mean almsgiving, is evident from the assertion of the apostle, where he says— " Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." The meaning of the term is Lovs, and so it is rendered in many other passages of the New...

...it is of one that sacrifices still more than all these, that it thus declares the startling truth, " Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, I am nothing." Then what is the charity or love to which the Saviour has called us ? what but this,...

...that he had no false notions respecting the merit of acts of beneficence : — " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing:." Mr. Wilson soon had an opportunity of shewing that his sense of pastoral responsibility...

...act the donor with all the promptitude and easy grace of Charity herself. But " though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, . .. and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." The absence of evangelical love is the want of the incense which alone could impart to the...

...as if they had determined to make the prodigal experience what St. Paul says, " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor — and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing" (Cor. I. xiii. 3). But when good is done secretly and without ostentation, the benefit as...

...I give alms. — Is that the charity of Christ ? What saith the Scriptures ? " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing."c Then I may give alms, and yet have no charity. Yes, because as before, it is a business...

...value at the judgment-seat. The law repudiates it as a satisfaction for sin. For " though I hestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing," 1 Cor. xiii. 3. " For ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold ;...

...but a limited exercise of benevolence, but that which Paul denominates charity — "Though I should give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, I am nothing worth," — that charity which " loveth all things" and which strives to add to the enjoyment...

...prompted by the right spirit, and springs from the right motive, is equally unacceptable to Him ; " for though I give all my goods to feed' the poor, and have not charity," says St. Paul, " It profiteth me nothing." Not the most self-denying sacrifices, the most energetic...