Article August 22, 1901 Issue

To do Good and to be Good

BY A. D.

There is no position in life, wherein we are placed, that we cannot better, be it high or low. Pure thinking and pure living, sweetness of disposition, meekness of heart, are the essentials in our efforts to uplift the human race, and God works with us in this undertaking. Sometimes we wonder what possible good we can do under the circumstances in which we find ourselves placed. It seems as if our example, and the striving after spiritual things, were entirely thrown away on people who have neither eyes to see, nor ears to hear, and yet, years after, we find some word or act of ours had sown a seed that bore good fruit. It is the little beginnings—the being faithful over a few things—that lift us to greater achievement and to spiritual heights, and our influence for good is felt, even when unacknowledged.

"Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Let us do good and deaccomplished nothing, for in years to come, the spiritual cline to be discouraged, even though seemingly we have bread cast upon the waters of mortal belief will return to us bearing the blessed fruits of Love.

One of my small beginnings, I remember, was in overcoming my antipathy to a person who had been most unjust to me, enough to quietly and without her knowledge give up my room, which was the coolest and pleasantest, to her. The next time I wanted to do a kindness to any one, it was very much easier, and Love was much nearer my heart; finally it has come about that to do good and to be good, is the natural impulse, and to do evil is repulsive.

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