The duty of considering the poor. A sermon preached ... on ... April 28th, 1839, in aid of the funds of the Royal Free Hospital. [With eleventh annual report and list of subscribers, etc.] / [Thomas Dale].

  • Dale, Thomas, 1797-1870
Date:
1839
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Credit: The duty of considering the poor. A sermon preached ... on ... April 28th, 1839, in aid of the funds of the Royal Free Hospital. [With eleventh annual report and list of subscribers, etc.] / [Thomas Dale]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    While, however, the duty is universal, the respon- sibility is individual. “ If I am a subject of Christ’s kingdom (every man should argue), I must be obedi- ent to Christ’s law; if I am concerned to attain God’s promises, I must be ready to fulfil God’s precepts.” Consideration belongs to each, though obligation extends to all. What then is consideration? It is first to ascertain, by inspection or enquiry, the actual condition of the poor; it is then to make the supply suited to, and as far as possible commensurate with, the demand. And though in illustrating this I shall take an individual case, it is one upon which you may easily generalize, and one upon which, most certainly, you may effectually and immediately act. We have in this great city, which may be termed the metropolis of charity as well as of Christianity, Asylums for every kind of wretchedness. Hospitals and Infirmaries for every variation of disease; but, un- til the Institution which I am here to advocate was established, we had not what perhaps we most wanted; —we had not an Hospital whose range of mercy was unlimited, an asylumwhose doors of refuge were never closed. In places of shelter for the houseless, where the healthy are congregated, there are sufficient rea- sons for excluding the sick (and these reasons apply