Two of Jesus' parables—the prodigal son and the good Samaritan—both related in Luke's Gospel, exemplify compassion in language unsurpassedly beautiful.
Broadly
speaking, an individual accepts Truth's sentence of freedom or else mortal mind's verdict of bondage, and the nature of his acceptance determines the nature of his earthly experience.
In
the third chapter of the first epistle of John are the words, "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.
With
customary vividness the prophet Isaiah describes the continuous purging of mortal beliefs by the power of Spirit, until, as he records, "there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
It is of course a well-known fact that what we refer to as "the weather" is conditioned by changes of temperature, pressure, and so forth, which take place in the atmosphere that surrounds the earth.
It
is evident from the context that when Jesus said to his disciples, "The poor always ye have with you," he was referring to the so-called poverty-stricken class.
