448 INTERCESSORY PRAYER. of imagination.. Some charitable dole is wanting to these our often very un- happy brethren, to fill the gloomy void that reigns in minds which have nothing on earth to hope or fear ; something to relieve in the killing languor and over- laboured lassitude of those who have nothing to do ; something to excite an appetite to existence in the palled satiety which attends on all pleasures which may be bought, where nature is not left to her own process, where even desire is antici- pated, and therefore, fruition defeated by meditated schemes and contrivances of delight ; and no interval, no obstacle, is interposed between the wish and the accomplishment." 0 you great ones of the earth, whom riches ensnare and prosperity betrays - be largely liberal, even from self-interest. Not, indeed, expecting to make the liberality you bestow a remuneration for the devotions you withhold. Scatter your superfluities, and more than your superfluities, to the destitute, if not to 1
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