"Would you do good according to the Gospel? Do it secretly, silently; so silently, that the left hand will not know what the right hand doeth.   We mean not to sever men from others in well doing, for we have said there are many good objects which can only be accomplished by numbers. But, generally speaking, we can do most good by individual action, and our own virtue is incomparably more improved by it. It is vastly better for example, that we should give our own money with our own hands, from our own judgment, and through personal interest in the distresses of others, than that we should send it be a substitute. Second-hand charity is not as good to the giver or receiver as immediate." Channing.