Overlapping

entirely upon the rival kindness of different religious -denominations?people who did no work, and who would not work because they could most thoroughly depend on the different religious denominations sending their district visitors round and giving them quite enough to go on with until they professed another denomination to the next visitor." The readiness to " profess another denomination " is a veiy familiar fact to church visitors, and reveals an aspect of English character which is by no means -encouraging. But, after all, there are, even among the very poor, a good many men and women who preserve the sturdy independence of their birthright ; and it is eminently desirable, in discussing such a question as the overlapping of charity, that