Make success its rich reward.
Gifts, words, works, and prayers shall yet
Bring the Christian harvest sure;
God will not your love forget:
Blessed he that helps the poor.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE OLD PAUPER.
“The foolishness of man perverteth his way; and his heart fretteth against the Lord.”—Prov. xix. 3.
“It is very very hard in one’s old age to be driven to poverty, to be neglected by one’s friends, forsaken by one’s children—left to wear out a weary life in a hateful place like this!”
Such were the words of a miserable old man, who, bedridden and helpless, was pouring out his complaint to a humane visitor at the workhouse.