When asked the reason for her choice, she
answered: "If I could but have a pure heart, I should then possess all
the other qualities of the beatitudes in the one." The child was
right. A pure heart will build a beautiful life, a fit temple for
Christ. Thinking over God's holy thoughts after him will make us like
God. Thinking habitually about Christ, Christ's beauty will come into
our souls and shine in our faces.
CHAPTER XIV.
DOING THINGS FOB CHRIST.
"We can best minister to him by helping them
Who dare not touch his hallowed garment's hem;
Their lives are even as ours--one piece, one plan.
Him know we not, him shall we never know,
Till we behold him in the least of these
Who suffer or who sin. In sick souls he
Lies bound and sighing, asks our sympathies;
Their grateful eyes thy benison bestow,
Brother and Lord,--'Ye did it unto me.'"
--LUCY LARCOM.
If Christ were here, we say, we would do many things for him. The
women who love him would gladly minister to him as did the women who
followed him from Galilee. The men who are his friends would work to
help him in any ways he might direct. The children who are trying to
please him would run errands for him. We all say we would be delighted
to serve him if only he would come again to our world and visit our
homes. But we can do things for him just as really as if he were here
again in human form.
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