Charity and Purity

A speaker at a pastor's conference in California where I was attending used the following quote from C.H. Spurgeon in relation to James 1:27.

The visitation of the fatherless and widows in their affliction is not left optional. It is not to be the privilege of a few worldly men who give all their substance to orphanages. Every Christian is bound to wear his part of the external dress of religion, that is, charity. This charity is to be manifested especially to those who need it most, whose need cannot be a matter of imposture, but must be real. These are the fatherless and widows, during the time of their destitution and affliction, when the orphans are not able to earn the bread that perishes, and the mother has her children weeping around her, and pining in poverty.

--Charles Spurgeon, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit v. 39, p. 391(3rd paragraph into introduction) “Charity and Purity”