Thoth— in religions giving-Charles Spurgeon

Louis xi. Made a donation to the virgin Mary of the whole county of boulogne, rutting it, hosier, for his own use, the revenues thereof! A solemn deed was drawn up, signed, sealed, and delivered, and it bears date 1478. What a ridiculous farce ! The instrument gives away just nothing at all. But are there no such farces among us ? When men of mean and miserly dispositions sing certain of our hymns, are they not guilty of just such a pretend of generosity . With abundance of goods in their power, they fumble for a three penny-piece in their pockets, singing, meanwhile, “were the whole realm of nature mine, that were a present far too snide ; love so maintain;, so divine