Prove to
them that they are children of God by treating them as such--as
children of Him without whom not a sparrow falls to the ground,
children of Him whose love is over all His works, children of Him who
defends the widow and the fatherless, and sees that those who are in
need or necessity have right, and who maketh inquiry for the blood of
the innocent. Prove to them that they are inheritors of the Kingdom
of Heaven, by proving to them first of all that the Kingdom of Heaven
exists, that all, rich and poor alike, are brothers, and One their
Master, He who ascended up on high and led captivity captive, and
received gifts for men, the gifts of healing, the gifts of science,
the gifts of civilisation, the gifts of law, the gifts of order, the
gifts of liberty, the gifts of the spirit of love and brotherhood, of
fellow-feeling and self-sacrifice, of justice and humility, a spirit
fit for a world of redeemed and pardoned men, in which mercy is but
justice, and self-sacrifice the truest self-interest; a world, the
King and Master of which is One who poured out his own life-blood for
the sake of those who hated him, that men should henceforth live not
for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again, and ascended up
on high and received gifts for men, that the Lord God might dwell
among them.
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