creditors who did not feel happier by their act of generosity; and
no one can doubt that both the tailor and his family were also
happier. John and Henry were not compelled to leave their home until
they were older and better prepared to endure the privations that
usually attend the boy's first entrance into the world; and help for
the mother in her arduous duties could now be afforded.

No one doubts that the creditor, whose money is not paid to him, has
rights. But too few think of the rights of the poor debtor, who
sinks into obscurity, and often privations, while his heart is
oppressed with a sense of obligations utterly beyond his power to
cancel.






THE SUNDAY CHRISTIAN.





TWO things are required to make a Christian--piety and charity. The
first has relation to worship, and in the last all social duties are
involved. Of the great importance of charity in the Christian
character, some idea may be gained by the pointed question asked by
an apostle--"If you love not your brother whom you have seen, how
can you love God whom you have not seen?" There is no mistaking the