“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” (Matt. xix. 24.)

Seneca (Letter 20):  “He is a high-souled man who sees riches spread around him, and hears rather than feels that they are his.  It is much not to be corrupted by fellowship with riches:  great is he who in the midst of wealth is poor, but safer he who has no wealth at all.”

9. The Duty of Kindness.

“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love.” (Rom. xii. 10.)

Seneca (On Anger, i. 5):  “Man is born for mutual assistance.”

“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (Lev. xiv. 18.)

Letter 48:  “You must live for another, if you wish to live for yourself.”

On Anger, iii. 43:  “While we are among men let us cultivate kindness; let us not be to any man a cause either of peril or of fear.”

10. Our common Membership.

“Ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.” (1 Cor. xii. 27.)

“We being many are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.” (Rom. xii. 5.)

Seneca (Letter 95):  “Do we teach that he should stretch his hand to the shipwrecked, show his path to the wanderer, divide his bread with the hungry?... when I could briefly deliver to him the formula of human duty:  all this that you see, in which things divine and human are included, is one:  we are members of one great body.”

11. Secrecy in doing Good.

“Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.” (Matt. vi. 3.)

Seneca (On Benefits, ii. 11):  “Let him who hath conferred a favour hold his tongue.... In conferring a favour nothing should be more avoided than pride.”

12. God’s impartial Goodness.

“He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” (Matt. v. 45.)

Seneca (On Benefits, i. 1):  “How many are unworthy of the light! and yet the day dawns.”

Id. vii. 31:  “The gods begin to confer benefits on those who recognize them not, they continue them to those who are thankless for them....  They distribute their blessings in impartial tenor through the nations and peoples;... they sprinkle the earth with timely showers, they stir the seas with wind, they mark out the seasons by the revolution of the constellations, they temper the winter and summer by the intervention of a gentler air.”