Indiscriminate Giving

' ■ It is all very well to preach agaiust indiscriminate charity, and to those who are inclined to benevolence the lesson is most valuable. There is too much careless giving, for charity no doubt often breeds raendicancy, and if there is to be giving it ought to be thoughtful, to the end that it inay do f?ood and not evil. Besides the charitably disposed, however, are those who are careless of the misfortuiies of their neighbors and those whose selfishness is rarely tempt - ed to make a sacrifica for the happiness of their kind. When such as these do a charity they are the important beneficiarles, and it is to them that the divine precept concerning the blessedness of giving applies. It matters little whether these give with discrimination or indiscrimination; their gif ts are so few thatt they oannot work nruch harm. If the enconragement of begging depended on the occasionally and spasmodically generous, the trade wonld assnredly die out. It is well not to preach the cold truth to them, for they need little enough excuse for buttoning up their pockets. Let them opon their hearts when they will, thoughtleoFly er not, aa it may chance. "What good is done by them will be chiefly to theniselves, and they will always, for a time at least, be the better for their improved opportvmities