He is dead whose hand is not open wide
To help the need of a human brother;
He doubles the length of his lifelong ride
Who of his fortune gives to another;
And a thousand million lives are his
Who carries the world in his sympathies.
(210)
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Kosciusko, the famous Polish patriot and general, was very
benevolent. Sending a messenger on a hurried errand, he bade him
ride his own horse. But the man was long gone, and returning
said that next time he must take another horse, for that one
insisted on stopping at every poor hovel and with every beggar
by the way, as if he had stopt to give alms at every wayside
call. Even a horse can learn the way of giving.--FRANKLIN
NOBLE, “Sermons in Illustration.”
(211)
=Benevolence, Christian=--See UNSELFISHNESS, POWER OF.