June 24
Benevolence
Scripture
KJV
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
ESV
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:27
Poem
The poor are always with us here:
'Tis our great Father's plan,
That mutual wants and mutual care
Should bind us man to man.