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We walked awhile in silence before my father spoke again. 



" ' Now abideth these three : faith, hope and charity ' you 

 remember the verse faith in God's goodness to us, hope that 

 our dreams may be fulfilled. But these concern but ourselves 

 the greatest of all is charity." 



" Be kind, that is all it means/' continued my father. " Often 

 we do what we think right and evil comes of it, and out of evil 

 comes good. We cannot understand maybe the old laws we 

 have misread. But the new law that we love one another all 

 creatures He has made that is so clear. And if it be that we 

 are here together only for a little while, the future dark, how 

 much the greater need have we of one another ! " 



I think there is little more to be said. Indeed, it is all the 

 Law and all the Prophets/' 



That this found response in his own soul there can be 

 no doubt. He took the trouble to write it all out again 

 in a letter to Mr. Hehner about the same time. 



" He prayeth well, who loveth well 

 Both man and bird and beast. 

 He prayeth best, who loveth best 

 All things both great and small ; 

 For the dear God who loveth us, 

 He made and loveth all." 



This was the practical precept of his life. 



How such a view harmonised with his own nature is 

 illustrated in many an act of charity and benevolence. 

 He never shut his ears to any tale deserving of pity. 

 But many people who have similar charitable impulses 

 draw the line at misfortunes which people bring on 

 themselves. It was not so with Kamsay. An em- 

 ploye of a society with which he was connected was 



