A Cup of Cold Water

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 14, 1869

A Cup of Cold Water.

Many deceive themselves by imagining that if they possessed affluence, they would do great things for Christ. They would build churches, support missionaries, endow schools of the prophets, and aid the poor by thousands. Christ requires that our benevolence should be, not according to that which we have not but, according to that we have. It is the hearty expression of love and duty that he requires, whether this be accompanied by the widow's mite, or the greater gifts of the rich. Even a cup of cold water, given for the temporary refreshment of one of the humblest of his disciples, will not lose its reward. Inasmuch as we show favor to one of the least of his disciples, because they are disciples, we do it to him; and there are none so poor, or so obscure, that they have not the means of testifying their love to him if they really possess it. If we cannot gratify the feelings of our hearts by feeding the hungry, and clothing the naked, we can surely afford a cup of water to the thirsty in the name, and for the sake, of our Lord.—Presbyterian.