Excerpt from Compassion to the Poor Recommended: A Sermon, Delivered in the First Baptist Meeting House, Philadelphia, February the Fourth, 1810, and Published at the Request and for the Profit of the Female Baptist Benevolent Society in Said City It was probably in relation to this last source of poverty, the visitations of God, that our text was uttered. A little before the sun of prophecy went down prophets came from J eru salem unto Antioch and there stood up one of them, named Agabus, and signified by the spirit, that'there Should be great dearth throughout all the world; which came to pass in the days 'of Claudius Cesar. Then the disciples, every man ac cording to his ability, determined to send relief unto the Brethren which dwelt in Judea. These brethren felt the calamity more severely, as on the effusion of the spirit at the fea t of Pentecost as many as were possessors of houses and lands, sold. Them, and laid the prices of the things at the apostles feet, and as Judea was the seat of the first fierce persecution that was directed against the followers of Christ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.