“The outcry daily increasing, that we might show what ground there was for it, we proposed to our friends or opponents, as we had opportunity, these or the like questions:—
“I. Whether it does not concern all men of all conditions to imitate Him, as much as they can, ‘Who went about doing good’?
“Whether all Christians are not concerned in that command, ‘While we have time, let us do good unto all men’?
“Whether we shall not be more happy hereafter, the more good we do now?
“Whether we can be happy at all hereafter, unless we have, according to our power, ‘fed the hungry, clothed the naked, visited those that are sick, and in prison;’ and made all these actions subservient to a higher purpose, even the saving of souls from death?
“Whether it be not our bounden duty always to remember, that He did more for us than we can do for Him, who assures us, ‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me’?
“II. Whether, upon these considerations, we may not try to do good to our acquaintance? Particularly, whether we may not try to convince them of the necessity of being Christians?
“Whether of the consequent necessity of being scholars?
“Whether of the necessity of method and industry, in order to either learning or virtue?