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which lies nearest, with absolute trust in the heart
that we are treading the path to power.
Trust must include cheerfulness, and it must preclude complaint, spoken or thought. It creates gratitude to the giver --- for whatever comes.
Service, in the creed of "The Fellowship," to my
interpretation, means continual thought for others ---
the hourly application of the Golden Rule and the
New Commandment; not the Sunday remembrance
of them.
Service, through humanity, to God --- beginning in
the morning, in the home, the boarding-house or the
hotel, on the ship or on the train, on the street, in
public conveyances or in the shop, market place or
factory, and extending into the social circles, and
always back into the home.
True service to humanity need not consist in giving
endowments to churches or colleges, or in building
libraries and hospitals. These things are good in their
place, and they are good uses for money; but the service most important to the world in bettering humanity
is the daily service of one human being toward another.
Sometimes this service takes only the form of a
word spoken at the right time; a letter written at the
right moment; a call made or an invitation given,
which proves remembrance and regard.
Sometimes it means the use of time, and again the
use of money, and again the denial to give money, and
the enlightenment to give counsel. And always it
means an understanding of "what is the loving thing
to do?"
Simple as these manifestations of service sound,
they are most difficult to perform all the days of all
the years. Set forth and undertake to live a life of
