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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1882 edition. Extrait: ... out of your abundance. Are you prepared to go yet further, my child? not to stop at being poor like the poor, but even poorer still? The servant is not so great as his lord; do you be the servant of the poor, tend their sick-bed with your own hands, be their cook, their needlewoman. O my friend, such servitude is more glorious than royalty How touchingly S. Louis, one of the greatest of kings, fulfilled this duty; serving the poor in their own houses, and daily causing three to eat at his own table, often himself eating the remains of their food in his loving humility. In his frequent visits to the hospitals he would select those afflicted with the most loathsome diseases, ulcers, cancer, and the like; and these he would tend, kneeling down and bare-headed, beholding the Saviour of the world in them, and cherishing them with all the tenderness of a mother's love. S. Elizabeth of Hungary used to mix freely with the poor, and liked to dress in their homely garments amid her gay ladies. Surely these royal personages were poor amid their riches and rich in poverty. ' Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." In the Day of Judgment the King of prince and peasant will say to them, "I was an hungered, and ye gave Me meat; I was naked, and ye clothed Me: come, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." f Everybody finds himself sometimes deficient in what he needs, and put to inconvenience. A guest whom we would fain receive honourably arrives, and we cannot entertain him as we would; we want our costly apparel in one place, and it all happens to be somewhere else: all the wine in our cellar suddenly turns sour: we find ourselves...