Gratitude Translated Into Deeds by Methodist Recorder

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 2, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 14.

Gratitude Translated Into Deeds

By Methodist Recorder

GRATITUDE, it has been said, is most acceptable to God, when translated into deeds. The psalmist declares, "My goodness extendeth not to thee, but to the saints which are in the earth." We cannot, as an expression of gratitude, benefit the Lord by anything that we can do, but we may benefit his children, and Christ has taught us that kindness done to them for his sake, he will regard as done to him. Gratitude that bears no fruitage, that leads to no act of devotion, if an opportunity for such exists, must be cold and barren indeed, and we can hardly hope that it will be acceptable to God.—Methodist Recorder.