Anticipate Charity By Preventing Poverty.

Do Not Imagine That These Most Difficult Problems Can Be Thoroughly Understood By Any One Of Us.

I Find It Expressed In Various Passages Of Scripture That The Fact That God Knows Things While In A State Of Possibility, When Their Existence Belongs To The Future, Does Not Change The Nature Of The Possible In Any Way; That Nature Remains Unchanged; And The Knowledge Of The Realisation Of One Of Several Possibilities Does Not Yet Effect That Realisation. This Is Likewise One Of The Fundamental Principles Of The Law Of Moses Concerning Which There Is No Doubt Nor Any Dispute.

All This Is Applicable To The Intellectual Faculties Of Man. There Is A Considerable Difference Between One Person And Another As Regards These Faculties, As Is Well Known To Philosophers.

Anticipate Charity By Preventing Poverty; Assist The Reduced Fellow Man, Either By A Considerable Gift Or A Sum Of Money Or By Teaching Him A Trade Or By Putting Him In The Way Of Business So That He May Earn An Honest Livelihood And Not Be Forced To The Dreadful Alternative Of Holding Out His Hand For Charity. This Is The Highest Step And Summit Of Charity's Golden Ladder.

Further, There Are Things Of Which The Mind Understands One Part, But Remains Ignorant Of The Other; And When Man Is Able To Comprehend Certain Things, It Does Not Follow That He Must Be Able To Comprehend Everything.