But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind : And thou shalt be blessed ; for they cannot recompense thee : but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. The Works of Hannah More - Page 276by Hannah More - 1836Full view - About this book
| Robert Dale Owen - 1871 - 468 pages
...When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind ; and thou shalt be blessed : they cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just."** We should probably call to mind, too, that from Wittenberg we had heard : " He that says the... | |
| F. F. G. - 1871 - 152 pages
...followed His words when first He spoke them while on earth so long before, " Thou shalt be blessed : for they cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." Did not the givers of the feast and the guests at it feel a consciousness of His presence amongst... | |
| Bible Christians - 1871 - 602 pages
...makest a feast call the poor and the maimed, and the lame and the blind, and thou shalt be blest, for they cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." That very day, before the entertainment, had this passage been quoted in the ears of the family... | |
| George Macaulay - 1872 - 408 pages
...acknowledge the cup of cold water given in his name to one of the meanest and least of his brethren. " They cannot recompense thee; but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." No look, or thought, or word, or deed of kindness is lost. Say not, when you know that love... | |
| Charles Adolphus Row - 1872 - 292 pages
...thou makest a feast, bid," says Jesus Christ, " the poor, the maimed, the halt, and the blind ; for they cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." It might have been more logical, perhaps, to have represented all holiness as simple benevolence.... | |
| Mrs. Fletcher (Eliza Dawson), Lady Mary Fletcher Richardson - 1875 - 412 pages
...us really an excellent funeral sermon the next day, from the words (14th Luke, 14th verse) — 'For they cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.' He dwelt with much truth and very good taste on her devotion to the poor — to their moral... | |
| Rev. George Collyer Harris - 1875 - 328 pages
...thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind : and thou shalt be blessed ; for they cannot recompense thee ; but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." We will only observe on this verse in passing, that the prohibition does not mean that we are... | |
| 1853 - 510 pages
...To such it is only necessary to say, " He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord." The poor " cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." " The Lord loveth a cheerful giver." f • See " Reaper's Corner." a Cnrnet MAN is a speculative... | |
| J. W - 1877 - 232 pages
...makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind, and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." 2 John viii. " Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but... | |
| George Washington Moon - 1878 - 380 pages
...thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind ; and thou shalt be blessed ; for they cannot recompense thee ; but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed... | |
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