296. How can I assist God?

Some tell me that it is the desire of God that I should worship Him?

What for? That I should sacrifice something to Him? What for? Is he in

want? Can I assist Him? If he is in want and I can assist Him and will

not, I would be an ingrate and an infamous wretch. But I am satisfied

that I cannot by any possibility assist the infinite. Whom can I assist?

My fellow men. I can help feed the hungry, clothe the naked, enlighten

ignorance. I can help at least, in some degree, toward covering this

world with a mantle of joy I may be wrong, but I do not believe that

there is any being in this universe who gives rain for praise, who gives

sunshine for prayer, or who blesses a man simply because he kneels.

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