The Project Gutenberg eBook, "About My Father's Business", by Thomas Archer Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/aboutmyfathersbu1876arch "About my Father's Business." (The Rights of Translation and of Reproduction are Reserved.) "About my Father's Business" WORK AMIDST THE SICK, THE SAD, AND THE SORROWING BY THOMAS ARCHER AUTHOR OF "STRANGE WORK," "A FOOL'S PARADISE," "THE TERRIBLE SIGHTS OF LONDON," "THE PAUPER, THE THIEF, AND THE CONVICT," ETC., ETC. Henry S. King & Co. 1876 CONTENTS. PAGE THE RARITY OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY1 WITH THE CHILDREN OF THE STRANGER9 WITH THE CHILDREN'S CHILDREN18 WITH THE STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND34 WITH THOSE WHO ARE LEFT DESOLATE44 WITH THEM THAT GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS53 WITH THEM WHO WERE READY TO PERISH62 CASTING BREAD UPON THE WATERS74 WITH THE FEEBLE AND FAINT-HEARTED84 WITH THE LITTLE ONES100 IN THE KINGDOM112 WITH LOST LAMBS125 WITH THE SICK135 BLESSING THE LITTLE CHILDREN144 WITH THEM THAT FAINT BY THE WAY157 IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH165 WITH THE HALT AND THE LAME178 WITH THEM WHO HAVE NOT WHERE TO LAY THEIR HEADS190 TAKING IN STRANGERS200 FEEDING THE MULTITUDE209 GIVING REST TO THE WEARY220 WITH THE POOR AND NEEDY227 GIVING THE FEEBLE STRENGTH248 HEALING THE SICK261 WITH THE PRISONER273 {1} "ABOUT MY FATHER'S BUSINESS." THE RARITY OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY. Would it not be useful to ask ourselves the question whether we are forgetting the true meaning of "charity" in the constant endeavour to take advantage of organized benevolent institutions, about the actual working of which we concern ourselves very little? As the years go on, and what we call civilisation advances, are we or are we not losing sight of "our neighbour" in a long vista of vicarious benefactions, bestowed through the medium of a subscription list, or casual contributions at an "anniversary festival?"