A meditation: "I think that my Uncle Eli more than
anybody else helped me to realize-not by what he said, but by
what he did-that this goodness of character … is not something
miraculous that drops into the soul out of the sky, but is rather
something … formed within as one faithfully does his set tasks,
and goes to work with an enthusiastic passion to help make other
people good. I saw him grown white and bent … but no touch of
age in the slightest degree weakened his efforts to make our neighborhood
better…. Now he would be organizing a local missionary society
and the next day he might be advocating a better system of taxation…
If he drove by he might be on his way to the station to start
off o an extended religious visit, or he might be going down the
road to visit a sick neighbor. In all his work….he was always
full of hope and courage, and radiantly happy to be able to work
at human problems." Rufus Jones, Finding the Trail of Life
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