But a truce to this strain; for my soul it is sad,
To think that a heart in humanity clad

Should make, like the brutes, such a desolate end,
And depart from the light without leaving a friend!
Bear soft his bones over the stones!

Though a pauper, he's one whom his Maker yet owns!
-THOMAS NOEL, "The Pauper's Drive"

"SHALL BROTHERS BE FOR A' THAT"

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.-THE VINE

He is thy brother.-THE BIBLE

He that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.-PAUL

Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

-"COMEDY OF ERRORS"

Envy keeps no holidays.—BACON

Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell

From Heaven; for ev'n in Heaven his looks and thoughts

Were always downward bent, admiring more

The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold,

Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd

In vision beatific.-"PARADISE LOST"

What though on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin gray, and a' that?

Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine,-
A man's a man for a' that.

For a' that, and a' that,

Their tinsel show, and a' that;

The honest man, though e'er sae poor,

Is king o' men for a' that.

Ye see yon birkie ca'd a lord,

Wha struts, and stares, and a' that,—

Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Give to every one that asketh thee, and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again.

For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind:

For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good.

And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.

Join thyself to God, and endure.

Hope in him: and mercy shall come to you for your delight.

Love him, and your hearts shall be enlightened.

Know ye that no one hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded.

Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God.

When thou makest a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it; for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

Though hundreds worship at his word,
He's but a coof for a' that;

For a' that, and a' that,

His riband, star, and a' that;

The man of independent mind,

He looks and laughs at a' that.

A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man's aboon his might,-
Guid faith, he maunna fa' that!

For a' that, and a' that,

Their dignities, and a' that,

The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth,
Are higher ranks than a' that.

Then let us pray that come it may,—
As come it will for a' that,-

That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth,
May bear the gree, and a' that.

For a' that, and a' that,

It's coming yet, for a' that,

When man to man, the warld o'er,

Shall brothers be for a' that!

-ROBERT BURNS, "For a' That, and a' That"

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"THE BEST IS LOVE"

The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.

-THE MESSIAH

I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.-DAVID

Faith and hope and love we see,

Joining hand in hand, agree;

But the greatest of the three,

And the best, is love.-BISHOP WORDSWORTH

HOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart. Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

But only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak.

Return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments.

You that love the Lord, hate evil.

Set thine house in order.

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning:

Lest coming suddenly, he find you sleeping.

Seek ye me, and you shall live.

Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Deliver every man his soul.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he

shall lift you up.

Such as are upright in their way are his delight.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart.

See thou never do to another what thou wouldst hate

to have done to thee by another.

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

For now we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

-SAUL OF TARSUS

"TOUCH HER NOT SCORNFULLY"

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God.

-THE WORD OF GOD

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. -HE WHICH SEARCHETH THE HEARTS

To the fallen give a hand;

And save the man that stands without defense.-THE SIBYL

He shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy.

-THE BIBLE

Then gently scan your brother man,

Still gentler sister woman;

Though they may gang a kennin' wrang,
To step aside is human.-—BURNS

They are slaves, who fear to speak

For the fallen and the weak;

They are slaves, who dare not be

In the right with two or three-LoWELL

Speak gently to the erring: know

They must have toiled in vain;
Perchance unkindness made them so;
O win them back again.