Go and Do What is Good
By Mary Wilder Tileston

      We are laborers together with God.
      1 CORINTHIANS 3:9

      THEN bear a joy where joy is not,
      Go, speak a kindly word in love,
      Less bitter make some loveless lot,
      Now earth is linked to heaven above.

      FREDERICK G. LEE

      DO what you can--give what you have. Only stop not with feelings; carry your charity into deeds; do and give what costs you something.

      J. H. THOM

      "Up and be doing," is the word that comes from God for each of us. Leave some "good work" behind you that shall not be wholly lost when you have passed away. Do something worth living for, worth dying for. Is there no want, no suffering, no sorrow that you can relieve? Is there no act of tardy justice, no deed of cheerful kindness, no long-forgotten duty that you can perform? Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long-outstanding debt, no courtesy, or love, or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed by which you can promote the glory of God, or good will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such deed, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it.

      ARTHUR P. STANLEY