" By this shall all men know you for My disciples, that you love one another."
Charity, again, is food for the hungry and drink for the thirsty. Christ, the incarnate love, says of Himself: " I am the Bread of life; he that eateth of Me shall never hunger and he that drinketh of the water that I shall give shall never thirst again." Love is that stream that the Apocalypse describes as flowing from the throne of God, slaking the soul's innate thirst for heaven, uniting the individual particles of humanity into one solid mass, and raising them on its bosom to its own level, the throne of God.
Again, charity is clothing for the naked, for, as the Apostle Peter says: " Charity covereth a multitude of sins." Charity is the nuptial garment rich enough to be worn at the wedding-feast of even the King of kings, and ample enough in its folds to hide from view the moral deformities of many an unfortunate brother. A garment as light as air, but as strong as death, is the love of God and humanity. Said Our Lord to His disciples: " Wait ye in the city until ye be clothed with power from on high." And when the Spirit of love, the Holy Ghost, did come upon them, those previously timid Apostles, as though now clothed in invincible armor, went bravely forth to battle for the faith and to die in the cause.
Finally, a good heart is a treasure such that the possessor of it, be he ever so poor, is rich indeed. They are woefully mistaken who put forth mighty
