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The Best Thing 10 Do.

And let us feel me llgnt ol Inse.
John G. Whittier
The Best Thing 10 Do.
And let us consider one anoth er to provoke
unto love and TO good works.-Hebrews. K,
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The man who thinks only of him
self and is forgetful of his obligations
to others doesn't count for much either
in this world or the ext.
A purely selfish man, who wants
everything and gives nothing, lives in
the suburbs of purgatory and will not
have far to 60 when he dies.
TO recognize your rights and ignore
your duties is to pursue policy which
angels deplore and devils rejoice at.
God can use a man to the best ad-
vantage when the soul which is prone
to seltishness evicts its tenant and
makes room for the occupancy of
heavenly visitants.
The man who seeks for this worlds
goods exclusively, whose chief posses
ion is bank account, will find him.
self out of place in heaven, stranger
in strange land.
Money is a good thing to work for,
but it isn't the only thing, nor the best
thing.
1t IS not well to despise money, but
you should remember that while it
will purchase much that is desirable it
will buy neither character nor happi-
ness. Unless you generously share it
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make you narrow and mean.
The most pitlful spectacle that eye
ever looked upon is the man who has
more than he knows what to do with,
but refuses to give his surplus to keep
the wolf away from the door across
the street.
The noblest men are those who give,
not those who keep, and the re is more
satisfaction in seeing a poor mans
children eat the bread which you have
furnished than in sitting at your own
table when plenty abonnds. if you ig-
more the poor mans children and let
them 60 hungry.
True religion is very simple mat
ter. You can get along without a
creed, but you cannot get along with
out doing good to your fellow creatures
who need your help.
The world is full of sorrows and
struggles. Tears fall like showers and
sighs fill the air as when the wind
sweeps through a forest of pines.
Those who suffer are part of the family
to which you belong. You have no
right to be Indifferent. TO be neglect
full Is crime. If you can lenda help
ing hand, but refuse TO do it on the
ground that you wish to use both hands
for yourself, you lose an opportunity
you will have difficulty in explaining
your conduct when the hour of reckon.
ing comes.
Doing good to others is the best way
to get blessing for yourself.
You will find the strongest proofs
that the religion you believe in is from
God if you will cease studying the
theology which is in books and devote
an equal time to Gods poor in your
neighborhood.
When man gives cheer to another's
heart the angels mysteriously putche
into his own.
1t is right and proper to pray, "Give
US this day our daily Bread" but God
asks price for His answer. and that
price is that you share of the bread He
gives to you.
If you are suffering from a affliction
what will you do? How shall you
seek relief? By asking Col to tighten
your burden? No; by doing what you
can to tighten the burden of some
equally troubled soul. If you bring a
smile to the trembling lips of another,
you will soon discover that a smile is
alighting on your own lips like but
terf1y on flower.
Would you increase your faith :?
Would you dissipate your doubts?
Would you convince yourself that life
is very we'll worth living, even when
the shadows throw their gloom on
your path? Then visit those who are
wearily plodding along, hopeless and
friendless.
You will find yourself stronger by
yourself and saying a kind
ly word to some poor creature who
would think he was in heavenly sur
roundings if he lived under your roof
and enjoyed your advantages.
When you are in the presence of the
Lord, who was Himself poor and op.
pressed, and so lonely that He knelt in
Gethsemane to ask for help, you will
be poorly off if you have nothing bet
ter to say than that you accepted all
the creeds of the Church and kept
yourself unspotted from the world.
But you will be we'll off if you can as
sure Him that you kept some one else
from the world at great
pains and sacrifice.
Love God, love your neighbor, obey
the command, Feed my lambs" and
you will get a warm welcome at the
end of the journey after death.
1t is not what you believe, but what
you do, that will entitle you to a resi-
dence in the New Jerusalem.
You may be worth million, but if
you have done nothing to make the
world better yo will die beggar.
You may be counted among the poor,
but if you have been brother to your
fellow men group of angels will
gather about your bed and usher you
with songs into the presence Of Him
who said, 1.-THE first shall be last, and
the last first"
No one ever yet loved God accepta-
bly, who did not loved His children.
There is no room in the House not
built with hands for soul that has
not made some sacrifice for others.
If you love your kind and manifest
that love by generous deeds it will be
but step from your grave to heaven.
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