Bible Encyclopedia: Poor: Kindness to Dorcas

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A Seeker for Truth
... near Lydda, there lived a woman named Dorcas, whose good ... of Jesus, and her life was
filled with acts of kindness. ... and she freely ministered to the poor and the ...
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Divine Healing.
... the dead are raised up, and the poor have the ... showing the coats and garments which
Dorcas made while ... barbarous people showed us no little kindness; for they ...
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The Touch of Faith and the Touch of Christ
... Many a poor soul clasping a crucifix clings to ... Strange kindness that; strangely
contrasted with His ordinary ... no praying, as when Peter raised Dorcas; only the ...
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Travelling in Palestine --Roads, Inns, Hospitality, Custom-House ...
... Joppa, where the raising of Tabitha, Dorcas, "the gazelle ... wanted to make money of
the poor people; and ... it was not merely condescension, kindness, sympathy, even ...
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Letter cviii. To Eustochium.
... she shewed to all and her far reaching kindness even to ... What poor man, as he lay
dying, was not wrapped ... made famous by the raising again of Dorcas [2762] and ...
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Acts ix. 26, 27
... "Which," it says, "Dorcas made while ... How then if one be poor? ... both they and we may
attain unto the promised blessings, by the grace and loving-kindness of His ...
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The Pilgrim's Progress
... I also will pay thee for thy kindness which thou showest to me and my children ... that
she had a companion, but also that she had prevailed with this poor maid to ...
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Homilies on the Gospel of John.
... dead, [41]321; profits both the dying and the dead, [42]322; raised Dorcas to life ...
to be substituted for luxury, [206]215; may be exercised by the poor, [207]216 ...
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A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity: Or, an Exhortation to ...
... has received the love, the mercy, the kindness, grace and ... heartedness, with a liberal
hand to the poor, and their ... 1 Corinthians 8:13) Where is Dorcas, with her ...
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Acts 9:36
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and giving of alms which she did.
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