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WHAT SHALL WE DO?
"And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
"He answereth and said unto them, He that hath two coats, let him
impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do
likewise." (Luke iii. 10, 11.)
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust
doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
"But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor
steal:
"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
"The light of the body is the eye; if, therefore, thine eye be
single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
"But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.
If, therefore, the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is
your darkness?
"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye
shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye
shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than
raiment?" (Matt. vi. 19-25.)
"Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What
shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
"(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek): for your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and
all these things shall be added unto you." (Matt. vi. 31-33.)
"For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for
a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Luke xviii. 25.)
CHAPTER I
After having passed the greater part of my life in the country, I came
at length, in the year 1881, to reside in Moscow, where I was
immediately struck with the extreme state of pauperism in that city.
Though well acquainted with the privations of the poor in rural
districts, I had not the faintest conception of their actual condition
in towns.
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