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Of Samuel Johnson, William J. Long in “English Literature” writes:
In all London there was none more kind to the wretched, and none more ready to extend an open hand to every struggling man and woman who crossed his path. When he passed poor, homeless Arabs sleeping in the streets he would slip a coin in their hands, in order that they might have a happy awakening; for he himself knew well what it meant to be hungry. Such was Johnson—a “mass of genuine manhood,” as Carlyle called him, and as such, men loved and honored him.
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See [Acknowledgment]; [Humor and Generosity]; [Tact].
Generosity Betrayed—See [Displacement].
GENEROSITY, CHRISTIAN
If business men generally followed the Golden Rule, after the example of Mr. Frank Crossley, the great promoter of London missions, as indicated below, what a different world this would soon become!
One unfortunate man who had put in one of Mr. Crossley’s engines, and found it too small, but was unable to replace it, and was threatened with bankruptcy, found in him a rare benefactor, who not only replaced the old engine by a new and larger one without charge, but actually made up to him the losses in his business which had resulted from his own blunder. That man said to a friend, “I have found a man who treated me just as Jesus Christ would have done!” (Text.)—Pierson, “The Miracles of Missions.”