An illustration is found in Matthew’s Gospel, chapter 25:34-46.

    Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye
    blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
    foundation of the world: 

    For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat:  I was thirsty, and ye
    gave me drink:  I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 

    Naked, and ye clothed me:  I was sick, and ye visited me:  I was in
    prison, and ye came unto me.

    Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee
    an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

    When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed
    thee?

    Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

    And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto
    you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
    brethren, ye have done it unto me.

    Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me,
    ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his
    angels: 

    For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat:  I was thirsty, and ye
    gave me no drink: 

    I was a stranger, and ye took me not in:  naked, and ye clothed me
    not:  sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

    Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee
    an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in
    prison, and did not minister unto thee?

    Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch
    as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me.

    And these shall go away into everlasting punishment:  but the
    righteous into life eternal.

No one should waste time in waiting for some great opportunity for service; there are opportunities everywhere.  It is impossible for man to render any service to Jehovah Himself.  There is nothing that we can do for Him except to love Him with heart and mind and soul and strength.  It is to the neighbour that we pay the debt that we owe to the Heavenly Father; it is through the neighbour that we publish to the world our real selves.  This is, like music, an universal language that all can understand.

Nietzsche, the atheistic philosopher, gave to one of his books the title “Joyful Wisdom”—­an absurd misnomer.  That which he mistook for joy was the delirium of an unbalanced mind.  The philosophy of Christ might with propriety be called Joyful Wisdom; it leads one into the path of happiness that is real and permanent.

Carl Hilty, a Swiss writer, has published a book entitled “Happiness,” in which he points out that, as those have the poorest health who spend their time travelling from one health resort to another looking for it, so those are least happy who do nothing but hunt for pleasure.  He insists that to be happy one must have employment for the hands, the head and the heart.  The hands must be busy, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied.