Our benevolent institutions : a discourse occasioned by the death of Julius R. Friedlander, principal of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, and delivered, Sunday, March 24, 1839 / by W.H. Furness.

  • William Henry Furness
Date:
1839
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Credit: Our benevolent institutions : a discourse occasioned by the death of Julius R. Friedlander, principal of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, and delivered, Sunday, March 24, 1839 / by W.H. Furness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have done, the more are we summoned to do. The noble monuments of charity among us point, not to repose, but to wider spheres and redoubled exertions. If he, who regularly at- tends public worship, thereby admits his reli- gious obligations, with equal distinctness do we confess ourselves bound for ever to the blessed work of doing good, when we have once done a charitable deed. We have entered upon a course, whose duties multiply at every step, and which knows no termination but in the disap- pearance of every form and shadow of evil. We are brought hither into the vineyard of the Great Husbandman, not to till an allotted space, not to rear one plant, but to enlarge for ever the sphere of our labours, to penetrate more and more deeply into the great mass of man's wants, to understand them more thoroughly and sympathize with them more warmly. By our efforts, however hearty, wise, and prolonged, we purchase ho liberty to stay our hands. On the contrary, they are our qualifications for still greater activity. And if there is one portion