A conscientious application of the Golden Rule
would cure us of all such carelessness.
These are but illustrations of the way other people impinge upon our
life. They are so close to us that we cannot move without touching
them. We cannot speak but that our words affect others. We cannot act
in the simplest things without first thinking whether what we are about
to do will help or hurt others. We are but one of a great family, and
we dare not live for ourselves. We must never forget that there are
other people.
CHAPTER XII.
THE BLESSING OF FAITHFULNESS.
"It must be done by both; God never without me,
I never without God."
--JOHANNES SCHEFFLER.
"Faithful servant" will be the commendation on the judgment-day of
those who have lived well on the earth. Not great deeds will be
commended, but faithfulness. The smallest ministries will rank with
the most conspicuous, if they are all that the weak hands could do.
Indeed, the widow's two mites were more in value than the rich men's
large coins.
"Two mites, two drops, but all her house and land
Fell from an earnest heart but trembling hand;
The others' wanton wealth foamed high and brave;
The others cast away, she only gave."
Yet faithfulness as a measure of requirement is not something that can
be reached without effort. It does not furnish a pillow for indolence.
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