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Updated: May 18, 2025
The Jacobite patriarch Benjamin fled with the Persians; and Heraclius appointed George to the bishopric, which was declared to have been empty since John the Almsgiver fled to Cyprus.
"It is the fault of your system," growled the doctor; "you are too strong on Eternity." "I could not be too strong on that. But I always preach prudence and thrift." "Bah! The presbytery is a sanctuary for all the loafers in Grey Town." "You had better discuss that with Molly. She is almsgiver at the presbytery.
Even if the millionaire be the self-denying saint of modern times, it is still possible to pay too high a price for his sanctity and sacrifice. It is the favourite boast of the sentimental millionaire that he holds his wealth in trust for humanity, in other words, that he has been chosen by an all-wise Providence to be the universal almsgiver of mankind.
I will only mention a couple of sentences out of the speech: 'The Army wants to come into competition with nobody, only to be a friendly helper nobody's enemy, but the friend of everybody. It will gladly be an inspiration and example. It has become the almsgiver for many Governments.
He was foremost in every work of benevolence and charity. The five years of his government were spent in lightening the sufferings of the people, and he gained the truly Christian name of John the Almsgiver.
This other friend had shown so much beauty of conduct already that he would surely after all just re-appear long enough to relieve her, to give her something she could take away. She saw it, caught it, at times, his parting present; and there were moments when she felt herself sitting like a beggar with a hand held out to almsgiver who only fumbled.
It may take long, but until then, pray keep the money; that will not entangle you in any degree." What a strange woman! he thought. She does evil with the easy, graceful air of an almsgiver distributing charity, and she does good with the stealth of a criminal!
To the habitant the Church was everything his school, his counselor, his almsgiver, his newspaper, his philosopher of things present and of things to come. To him it was the source of all knowledge, experience, and inspiration, and to it he never faltered in ungrudging loyalty. The Church made the colony a spiritual unit and kept it so; undefiled by any taint of heresy.
The fugitives of Palestine were entertained at Alexandria by the charity of John the Archbishop, who is distinguished among a crowd of saints by the epithet of almsgiver: and the revenues of the church, with a treasure of three hundred thousand pounds, were restored to the true proprietors, the poor of every country and every denomination.
There is a deep satisfaction in protecting such families from the careless, patronizing charity of the thoughtless almsgiver, whose unsteady hand would give them a feast to-day and a famine to-morrow. There is deep satisfaction in coöperating with such families to conquer difficulties.
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