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 We have strangely reversed the order of things. We sometimes act as if our feeling was, 'Let us do good and give, that God, who loveth a cheerful giver, may be good to us;' but our feeling should be, 'Christ has died, let us do good, for his sake, to his poor brethren, as an evidence that we are grateful for his inestimable gift.'

Let us do good, not to receive more good in return, but as an evidence of gratitude for what has been already bestowed. In few words, let it be 'all for love, and nothing for reward.' 227