Richard Allen — in their own words
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The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours 6
We wish you to consider, that God himself was the first pleader of the cause of slaves.
Consider, my brethren, that all we have and are is entrusted to us by Almighty God.
Our blessed Lord has not committed his goods to us as a dead stock, to be boarded up, or to lie unprofitably in our own hands.
In short, the love of this world is a heavy weight upon the soul, which chains her down, and prevents her flight towards heaven.
To be slow and uneasy at almsgiving, argues a strong distrust in providence, either that God cannot or will not make up to us what we thus bestow.
All objections to charitable contributions may well be supposed to arise from covetousness, or an unwillingness to part with the present penny.