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AND THE DUTY OF THE LEGISLATURE

IN THE PRESENT RELATION

BETWEEN

THE POOR AND THE STATE,

BRIEFLY

CONSIDERED IN A LETTER

TO

GEORGE PALMER, ESQ. M.P.

OF NAZING PARK, ESSEX.

BY THE REV.

CHARLES MILLER, M.A.

VICAR OF HARLOW, ESSEX.

"Habet etiam Ecclesia Pauli Eleemosynarium. Is homo pius et pauperum necessitatibus
compatiens sit. Ejus officium est statutis diebus Eleemosynas distribuere egentibus uti volue-
rint illi qui publicam in Eleemosynam reditus contulerunt; et pauperes si qui sint qui juxta
Ecclesiam moriuntur in majori cœmeterio gratis sepelire."-Appendix in Hist. Eccles. Cath.
S. Pauli; Dugdale.

"Then followed the Service of Morning Prayer for that day. . . . . Provision was made
instantly for Alms to the Poor."-Ceremonies observed at the Dedication to Christ's honour and
service of Lichfield Cathedral, by Bishop Hacket, on Christmas Eve, 1669. See Antiquities, &c.
London, 1717.

"Church-fasts kept, will accustom men to habits of self-denial, and we may hope that luxury
will diminish and alms-giving increase. The Offertory will not then, as now, be almost a
mockery of offering; not as now, rarely read, but regularly and largely contributed to.”—
Bishop of Oxford's Charge, 1842.

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1842.

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Ꮮ Ꭼ Ꭲ Ꭲ Ꭼ Ꭱ,

&c.

MY DEAR SIR,

CORRESPONDENTS, it is said, sometimes reserve their most important communications for a postscript. Adopting the spirit of this rule, I will place my most valuable matter in the Appendix'. My title-page will also be interesting and instructive, as showing the feelings of our forefathers towards the poor and the needy. The Bishop of this diocese has recently used the offertory, and with good success, for the Colonial Bishopric fund: the Bishop of Oxford connects the offertory with alms-giving, and all churchmen must hope that his Lordship's auspicious foreboding will be realized, and that the Church will resume her parental duties as guardian of the poor. Having begun and ended my letter so well, if the intervening observations should weary you, I must plead the

The Appendix is also published separately.

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