text:  But with fuller opportunities for pursuing that discussion we think it would be easy to show that in more than one of his institutions and his decrees he had contemplated the special advantage of the poor as such; and that next after the august distinction of having founded the first Christian throne he had meant to challenge and fix the gaze of future ages upon this glorious pretension--that he first had executed the scriptural injunction to make a provision for the poor as an order of society that by laws immutable should "never cease out of the land