“只…一杯凉水。”（太10章42节）

　　我应当怎样作呢？我在这世界的日子非常短少，所以有什么工作，恩惠，服役，我能给人的，让我现在就给吧。让我不再忽视，不再迟延吧；因为以后我没有机会再经过这条路了。——贵格会格言(An Old Quaker saying)

　　把你所有的给人；你所给的，对他也许有出你意外的帮助。——郎弗罗(Longfellow)

"A cup of cold water only." (Matt. 10:42.)

WHAT am I to do? I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good work, therefore, any kindness, or any service I can render to any soul of man or animal, let me do it now. Let me not neglect or defer it, for I shall not pass this way again. --- An Old Quaker Saying.

It isn't the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bitter heartache
At the setting of the sun;
The tender word unspoken,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts at night.

The stone you might have lifted
Out of your brother's way,
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,

The gentle and winsome tone,
That you had no time or thought for,
With troubles enough of your own.

These little acts of kindness,
So easily out of mind,
These chances to be angels,
Which even mortals find-
They come in night and silence,
Each chill reproachful wraith,
When hope is faint and flagging,
And a blight has dropped on faith.

For life is all too short, dear.
And sorrow is all too great,
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late.
And it's not the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bitter heartache,
At the setting of the sun.
─Adelaide Proctor.

Give what you have; to someone it may be better than you dare to think.

--- Longfellow.