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 "Then followed the Service of Morning Prayer for that day. . . . . Provision was made "Church-fasts kept, will accustom men to habits of self-denial, and we may hope that luxury LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. G. F. & J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL; AND SOLD BY BURNS, 17, PORTMAN STREET; & PARKER, OXFORD. 1842. A 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. |