bestowment

With the autumnal surrogation to winter and the Thanksgiving holiday quickly ascending upon us, I find myself reminiscing to mind the many blessings and bestowments of the past.

If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view.

His bestowments and appointments are made with an eye to the furtherance of the state and house that He has in charge.

This ancient word—alms—according to its derivative import, comprehends not only those oboli, which are given to the wandering poor, but all bestowments, great and small, in the blessed cause of charity.

That great gift will come in continuous bestowment if we are “saints in Christ.”