The Blessedness of Doing Good

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Acts 10:38

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good…

A Piedmontese nobleman, whom I met at Turin, had not long before experienced its efficacy; and his story, which he told me without reserve, was as follows: "I was weary of life, and, after a day such as few have known, and none would wish to remember, was hurrying along the street to the river, when I felt a sudden check. I turned and beheld a little boy, who had caught the skirt of my cloak in his anxiety to solicit my notice. His look and manner were irresistible; not less so was the lesson he had learned. 'There are six of us, and we are dying for want of food.' 'Why should I not, said I to myself, relieve this wretched family? I have the means, and it will not delay me many minutes. But what if it does?' The scene of misery he conducted me to I cannot describe. I threw them my purse, and their burst of gratitude overcame me; it filled my eyes — it went as a cordial to my heart. 'I will call again tomorrow!' I cried. Fool that I was to think of leaving a world where such pleasure was to be had, and so cheaply!" May many a reader of these lines find in the true romance of London a relief for all hypochondriacal and dyspeptic sorrows.

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