There may be such danger. Every truth has its own danger or
shadow. Assuredly I would have no less labour spent upon them. But
there can be no true labour done, save in as far as we are
fellow-labourers with God. We must work with him, not against him.
Every one who works without believing that God is doing the best,
the absolute good for them, is, must be, more or less, thwarting
God. He would take the poor out of God's hands. For others, as for
ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand
anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine; and that which
is but one step beyond our understanding must be in some of its
relations as mysterious as if it were a hundred. But through all
this darkness about the poor, at least I can see wonderful veins and
fields of light, and with the help of this partial vision, I trust
for the rest. The only and the greatest thing man is capable of is
Trust in God.'
'What then is a man to do for the poor? How is he to work with
God?' I asked.
'He must be a man amongst them--a man breathing the air of a higher
life, and therefore in all natural ways fulfilling his endless human
relations to them. Whatever you do for them, let your own being,
that is you in relation to them, be the background, that so you may
be a link between them and God, or rather I should say, between them
and the knowledge of God.'
While Falconer spoke, his face grew grander and grander, till at
last it absolutely shone.
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