But if we have a duty toward God—a responsibility to live pure and holy lives in His sight—we also have a duty toward our neighbour, and the Christian must interpret the scope of that duty according to the teaching of Jesus Christ. "Who is my neighbour"? asked the questioner of old, and the answer member, the parable of Samaritan, in which we learn that we have a duty and a responsibility, not only to our kindred and acquaintance—those bound to us by ties of blood and affection, but to all who stand in need of our help, The apostle would seem to have had this in mind when he laid this further duty upon them, "Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfil the law of Chris' There is the old fable of the lion and the mouse that we do well to remember. God has made us all great and small to lean on one another. The strong have a duty to help the weak and the world is so ordered that in something the weakest may help the strongest, and none of us must be unwilling to'help those in need and none in need too proud to. be helped,
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