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90 HENRY'S BIRTHDAY.
Henry asked how it would do to give the
strangers just money
starving and freezing,
enough to keep them from
but no more.
Mr. Williams said that it was always safe to
give a beggar a meal of victuals, provided the
food was plain and wholesome, and a cup of
water to drink. "And then, if night is approach
ing," said he, " it is safe— nay, it may be duty —
to give him a place to sleep. But after we
have fed him, he wants nothing more to eat till
meal-time again arrives; and after he has slept,
he wants lodging no more till night returns upon
him.
If,
then, he
is
a
stranger to us, and we do
not know whether he will or will not make
good use
of money,
is
it
supply his present wants, and
till
it
becomes the present? Is
a
not the better way to
let the future go
it
not
time