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The Faithful Steward - Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. Clark
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PART III.

The General System given in detail.--1. It must consist
of intellectual views, their inculcation, and harmonizing
affections and desires. 2. Of general purposes and
resolutions. 3. Of correspondent actions.--The adoption
of the Individual System urged.--Systematic
Beneficence an essential of Christian character,

CONCLUSION.

An Address to professed Christians.--An Address to the
Rich.--An Address to the Young,





THE FAITHFUL STEWARD.

PART I.

"GOD IS LOVE." Perfectly blessed in Himself, he desired that other
intelligences should participate in his own holy felicity. This was his
primary motive in creating moral beings. They were made in his own
image--framed to resemble him in their intellectual and moral capacities,
and to imitate him in the spirit of their deportment. Whatever good they
enjoyed, like him, they were to desire that others might enjoy it with
them; and thus all were to be bound together by mutual sympathy,--linked
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