p. 123 | Doing Good to Others

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 19, 1857

Doing Good to Others

WHEN our Master was on earth, He went about doing good. No employment can be more dignified, or more honorable, for no other has ever been recommended to us by such an example. Whether our lot is cast in city or country, we can never want opportunity for doing good to others. He himself said, "The poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good;" thus throwing the responsibility entirely upon us. And then to encourage us tells us, "Me ye have not always," "but inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me." "He that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the Lord, and he will repay it." Blessed promise! whether it be food, or money, or clothing; a night watch by a sick bed; a kind turn to the over burdened; a word of encouragement to the fainting; a kindly reproof to the erring; he will repay it. And his promises are not like men's, often made without due consideration of what is implied in them, and liable to fail for want of ability or will to perform them. But they all are yea and amen. He will repay.