Excerpt from Individual Exertion: A Christmas Call to ActionDo not these facts speak for themselves of the inert state into which benevolence has fallen?Now and then, the truth of this want strikes so vividly upon some thinking minds that efforts are made to meet the need, City missionaries, Scripture readers, and Bible women being appointed to aid the over-worked clergy. These, how ever good, are, nevertheless, but paid agents, and established more to provide for spiritual than temporal destitution. We want help from those with in¿uence and means to plough up the fallow ground of hard poverty. We require them to prepare the way for religious impression by substantial deeds of kindness. We need to preface our tracts by example, and to lead the way to a loving Saviour by practical obedience to His command Love thy neighbour as thyself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.