It seems to me a great and good lesson to go through these crowded places (speaking of Covent Garden market) to see what life is – the life of the millions, not of the few – and then to think of our aesthetics, as Kingsley said, and our life one long pursuit of enjoyment, and disappointment if we do not get it. . . . But suppose that cry goes up to the ears of God, and He asks, Whom did you relieve? Whom did you clothe? Whom did you feed with your tens, hundreds, or thousands? Assuredly, protest against Kingsley who will, he stood on a deep, awful truth. God will yet take account of the selfishness of wealth, and His quarrel has yet to be fought out.”
From Life of F. W. Robertson
“The sight of so many whom God has made as good as oneself with such an apparent want of everything, at once makes one ashamed of one’s own treasures, and desirous to claim them and rejoice in whatever one can enter into with them.”
F. D. MAURICE
“The Lord’s words made clear beyond doubt that ‘the blessing of power is the blessing of great cares’, that the sign of authority is the readiness to serve.”
Bishop WESTCOTT
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