Things New and Old - 1869 Author:John Spencer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: desire but some oil for his lamp -- accustomed offerings for his better subsistence -- you shall have them as a bulrush in a wet place, so dry, that a penny ... more »is as easily screwed from them as a new coat from a child, or a sword from a soldier enraged. Sermon in devites avaros. ). Boy? Sermons. QayriiTGv 6ifia. Zenodotus. EnJcmus ex Callhnarh, 30. Charity to the Poor to be real, not -verbal. We read in our chronicles of King Oswald, that as he sat at table, when a fair silver dish, full of regal delicacies, was set before him, and he ready to fall to, hearing from his almoner that there were great store of poor at his gates piteously crying out for some relief, did not fill them with words, as, God help them, God relieve them, God comfort them,« less