nt of property or income to be given individually
in charitable contributions; together with the principle
on which the amount is to be ascertained? 2. How
frequently should stated contributions be made?
--The method of previous appropriations discussed, and
the duty enforced,

PART III.

The General System given in detail.--1. It must consist
of intellectual views, their inculcation, and harmonizing
affections and desires. 2. Of general purposes and
resolutions. 3. Of correspondent actions.--The adoption
of the Individual System urged.--Systematic
Beneficence an essential of Christian character,

CONCLUSION.

An Address to professed Christians.--An Address to the
Rich.--An Address to the Young,

THE FAITHFUL STEWARD.

PART I.

"GOD IS LOVE." Perfectly blessed in Himself, he desired that other
intelligences should participate in his own holy felicity. This was his
primary motive in creating moral beings. They were made in his own
image--framed to resemble him in their intellectual and moral capacities,
and to imitate him in the spirit of their deportment. Whatever good they
enjoyed, like him, they were to desire that others might enjoy it with
them; and thus all were to be bound together by mutual sympathy,--linked
to Himself, and to one another; otherwise, they would not resemble their
Great Original, either in feeling or conduct. But intelligent beings,
unlike Himself, Jehovah, in consistency with his holy character, could
never purpose to create. He thus must eternally abhor the covetous; and
hence, with all the strength of his infinite nature, threaten them with
everlasting death.

How glorious this idea of creation, and how beautiful the universe
produced!--the whole mantled in the effulgence of the eternal throne;
the Sovereign Creator upholding all ranks of intelligences in the hollow
of his hand, and pouring into their bosoms the fullness of his own
fruition; while their hearts, in turn, rise to the Source of their being
in sweetest incense of joy and praise; each burning with a seraph's love
to communicate his own overflowing enjoyments to those around him. Well
might the morning stars have sung together when such a universe awoke to
being.

The greatest good, the richest possession, then, of an intelligent
being, is a soul in harmony with this original design of creation--a
oneness of principle, of feeling, and interest, with God; in other
word