Clothe the Naked
I was … naked, and ye clothed me. Matthew 25:35, 36. Christ … says, It was I who was hungry and thirsty. It was I who was a stranger. It was I who was sick. It was I who was in prison…. While you crowded your wardrobe with rich apparel, I was destitute. While you […]
Deal My Bread to the Hungry
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? Isaiah 58:7. What is pure religion? Christ has told us that pure religion is the exercise of pity, sympathy, and love, in the home, in the church, and in the world…. We […]
Visit Fatherless and Widows
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:27. Among all whose needs demand our interest, the widow and the fatherless have the strongest claims upon our tender sympathy and care…. The father […]
Sing and Pray With My Neighbors
They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped. 2 Chronicles 29:30. The presentation of the truth in love and sympathy, from house to house, is in harmony with the instruction that Christ gave to His disciples when He sent them out on their first missionary tour. By songs of praise to […]
Be Full of Compassion
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. Psalm 112:4. Wherever there is an impulse of love and sympathy, wherever the heart reaches out to bless and uplift others, there is revealed the working of God’s Holy Spirit. In the depths of heathenism men who […]
Have an Understanding Heart
I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart. 1 Kings 3:12. Solomon in his youth made David’s choice his own. Above every earthly good he asked of God a wise and understanding heart…. The power of his understanding, the extent of his knowledge, the glory of his reign, became the wonder of the […]
