...value at the judgment-seat. The law repudiates it as a satisfaction for sin. For " though I hestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing," 1 Cor. xiii. 3. " For ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold ;...

...would be pardoned.' ' What did St. Paul mean then,' asked Ellen, when he says, ' though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.' ' Oh Miss, I dare say you are right, you know best.' ' Do not trust to my knowing best, Mrs....

...it ought to be but the secondary motive. This is evident from 1 Cor. xiii. 3. " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Whence may be learned these two things : first, that charity in its primary or principal...

...character, as it is a special characteristic of every true Christian ; yet he says, " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Self-denying alms-giving is no necessary evidence of love. Once more. He, if any man, had...

...Scripture to signify alms-giving, but always means love. Paul says as above, verse 3, "though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." This is proof that what ice mean by charity is not what the apostle intended ; for alms-giving...

...desires the favor, or to some thing which needs care and attention. Paul says, "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, — and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." She bestows a great deal of time and labor upon the education of her children. to lay up...

...seen of men."§ The quantity cannot supersede the quality of our actions,— " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." | A work, to be really and scripturally good, must proceed from a right principle, be done...

...hypocritically and outwardly performed, upon ill principles, or upon no principles. '• Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not " charity, it profiteth me nothing"." A man may food the poor for ostentation or vanity, may clothe the naked for his own interest,...

...claims the reputation of virtue or piety, by splendid acts of public beneficence. ' Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.' XII. EXERCISE incessant vigilance against the dangers and temptations by which you are surrounded,...

...excellence all the commands of God. Whereas the Apostle says, (1 Cor. xiii. 3.) Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Hence it clearly appears that this work, which Bellarmine extols beyond all the commands of...