And
if you have no share in the mammon of unrighteousness, still make
friends. Make them by truth and justice, make them by generosity and
usefulness. To ease every burden, and let the oppressed go free, to feed
the hungry, clothe the naked, and what the very poorest can do--comfort
the mourner; to nurse the sick, to visit the fatherless and widows in
their affliction, and so keep ourselves unspotted from the selfishness of
the world--This is that true Religion, acceptable in the sight of God the
Father--and happy he who has so served God. Happy for him, when he
begins to fail, to see round him attached hearts, and grateful faces,
hands ready to tend him, as he has tended others. And happier still to
remember that on the other side of the dark river of death are other
grateful faces, other loving hearts, ready to welcome him into
everlasting habitations--and among them, and above them all, one whose
form is as the Son of Man, full of all humanity Himself, and loving and
rewarding all humanity in His creatures, saying, "Inasmuch as ye did it
to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me.
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