"For the Christian, in his own household he is to be the guide and the support of his children; and out of his household he is still to be the father, 

That is, the guide and support of the weak and the poor; not merely of the meritoriously weak and the innocently poor, but of the guiltily and punishably poor; of the person that ought to have known better -- of the poor who ought to be ashamed of themselves. 

It is nothing to give a pension and cottage to the widow who has lost her son; it is nothing to give food and medicine to the workman who has broken his arm, or the decrepit woman wasting in sickness.  

But it is something to use your time and strength to war with the waywardness and thoughtlessness of mankind..." 

John Ruskin.