So natural is sympathy to the good man that he obeys it mechanically when he suffers his heart to be the monitor of his conscience.

In this sympathy, behold the bond between rich and poor! By this sympathy, whatever our varying worldly lots, they become what they were meant to be,--exercises for the virtues more peculiar to each; and thus, if in the body each man bear his own burden, yet in the fellowship of the soul all have common relief in bearing the burdens of each other.
This is the law of Christ,--fulfil it, O my flock!" Here the parson closed his sermon, and the congregation bowed their heads..