True to God
He’s true to God who’s true to man;
Wherever wrong is done
To the humblest and the weakest
‘Neath the all-beholding sun,
That wrong is also done to us,
And they are slaves most base,
Whose love of right is for themselves,
And not for all the race.
—James Russell Lowell.
The Perversion of Pity
The practical weakness of the vast mass of modern pity for the poor and the oppressed is precisely that it is merely pity; the pity is pitiful but not respectful. Men feel that the cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is injustice to equals; nay, it is treachery to comrades.
—G. K. Chesterton.
It is our duty to relieve the poor and the needy, to visit the sick and bury the dead without distinction of race or creed.
—The Talmud.
“Home—the place where the great are small, and the small are great.”
Alternate Reading: I John 2: 1-11.