She has a great tenderness for _old people_ that are past their labour. The parish allowance to such is seldom a comfortable maintenance. For this reason they are the constant objects of her care. She adds so much to their allowance, as somewhat exceeds the wages they got when they were young. This she does to comfort the infirmities of their age, that, being free from trouble, they may serve God in peace. She has generally a large number of this kind, who, by her charities and exhortations, spend their last days in great piety. ♦9. _Miranda_ never wants compassion, even to common beggars; especially those that are _old_ or _sick_, or that want _eyes_ or _limbs_. She hears their complaints with tenderness, gives them some proof of her kindness, and never rejects them with hard or reproachful language, for fear of adding affliction to her fellow creatures. ♦ Number 8 omitted in text. If a poor traveller tells her, that he has neither _strength_, nor _food_, nor _money_ left, she never bids him go to the place from whence he came, or tells him, that she cannot relieve him, because he may be a _cheat_, and she does not know him; but she relieves him for that reason, because he is a _stranger_, and _unknown_ to her. For it is the most noble part of charity, to be kind to those whom we never saw before, and perhaps never may see again in this life. _I was a stranger, and ye took me in_, saith our blessed Saviour; but who can perform this duty, that will not relieve persons that are unknown to him? _Miranda_ considers, that _Lazarus_ was a common beggar; that he was the care of angels, and carried into _Abraham_’s bosom. She considers, that our blessed Saviour and his apostles were kind to _beggars_; that they spoke comfortably to them, healed their diseases, and restored eyes and limbs to the blind and lame; that _Peter_ said to the beggar that wanted an alms from him, _Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, give I thee; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk_. _Miranda_ therefore never treats beggars with disregard and aversion; but imitates the kindness of our Saviour and his apostles towards them; and tho’ she cannot, like them, work miracles for their relief, yet she relieves them with that power that she hath; and may say with the apostle, _such as I have give I thee, in the name of Jesus Christ_.