Thomas Ridgley, Anglican minister, on “Gives us this day our daily bread.” Focusing on the possessive pronoun of our, he insists this is a prayer for all to have bread. And as such that it is our will for all to have bread, it is a prayer for ourselves to have a part in aid for those who need it.

Do we want God’s will to happen without our having any role in it?

How can you help them so far as it is in your power?

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John Brown, Anglican minister, writes on utilitarian benefits of charity: social order + maintaining private property + undoing the evils of selfish abuse of property.

Who today would be able to say all of the above? People want strife to undo property, or strife to shut up those who’d gripe about Inequality.

How can you speak the unpopular truths that those on your side won’t say, and also imitate Jesus in going about doing good?

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