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Title: Christian herald
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association
Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University

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k shelter. This is both goodand bad. It is goodto bolster up yourpersonal pride, forit is only a transpo-sition of the prayerof the upright Phar-isee to treat the richwith contempt, giv-ing oneself at thesame time an easyassurance of gener-osity; but as far asserving your brotheris concerned, it isabsolutely bad and useless. Who will be helped by your saying, If I were rich I would do a greatdeal of good? Not a soul. Look about you, see what you are able,to do, anddo it. This is the reason so many people do nothing. They say: If I had thisor that, if I were young, if I were well, if I were a man instead of being only aweak woman! Oh yes, if you had been born at the time of the Crusades, Ihave no doubt you would have helped \vin the Holy Sepulcher. And if you hadbeen born in Shakespeares time, it would probably have been you who wouldhave written Romeo and Juliet. Can you not see that such a way of talkingis childish, and that the disposition that prompts it sterilizes action entirely?
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Copyright, Photographiscbe Gesellschaft EMPTIED HIMSELF OF HIS From the original painting by Sigisniund Goetze •H E Amplify the declaration: If I were rich; extend it over the totality ofhuman life. Here is what it will give you: Men say to themselves, If we werenot so miserable, if we were not all candidates for the tomb, affected with amultitude of cares and infirmities, if we were not a troop flagellated withfatality and with woes, we might try something; but since men are what theyare, is it worth while trying? What is the use? Such thoughts lead usdirectly to discouragement and ruin. No, it is better to say this to your fellowmen: I am mortal, as you are; like you I am exposed to all sorts of difficul-ties, pains, misery.I carry burdens justas you do, and al-though in a differentform, sin is a sadreality in my soul asin yours. Let us thenbe charitable andhelpful, each to theother! If, although life isfull of evil, we weregood; if, althoughlife is short, wewere thoughtful andpat

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