Thoughts, Words, and Acts.
WE can give. Sympathy is often well expressed in food and raiment, in money, in material help. The epistle to the Philippians, with all its precious teachings, might never have been written if the Philippian church had not “once and again” sent and ministered to the necessities of Paul the prisoner of Christ in Rome. Talk is cheap as ciphers. But yet words count for a great deal when they have a figure to lead them on. So words are worth everything when deeds go before them and marshal them in line of battle. A colored woman in a missionary meeting was singing with closed eyes the hymn, “Fly abroad, thou mighty Gospel.” when the collector, passing by, nudged her with the contribution box, saying, “No use singing, ‘Fly abroad, thou mighty Gospel,’ unless you gib something to make um fly.” Thoughts, words, and acts go well together. —The Christian.