But I say also to the poor, 'In your turn have charity for the rich;' and I say to the rich, 'In your turn respect the poor.' "'Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.' Thou, O poor man, envy not nor grudge thy brother his larger portion of worldly goods.

Believe that he hath his sorrows and crosses like thyself, and perhaps, as more delicately nurtured, he feels them more; nay, hath he not temptations so great that our Lord hath exclaimed, 'How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of heaven'?
And what are temptations but trials; what are trials but perils and sorrows?
Think not that you can bestow no charity on the rich man, even while you take your sustenance from his hands.

A heathen writer, often cited by the earliest preachers of the gospel, hath truly said, 'Wherever there is room for a man there is place for a benefit.' "And I ask any rich brother amongst you, when he hath gone forth to survey his barns and his granaries, his gardens and orchards, if suddenly in the vain pride of his heart, he sees the scowl on the brow of the labourer,--if he deems himself hated in the midst of his wealth, if he feels that his least faults are treasured up against him with the hardness of malice, and his plainest benefits received with the ingratitude of envy,--I ask, I say, any rich man, whether straightway all pleasure in his worldly possessions does not fade from his heart, and whether he does not feel what a wealth of gladness it is in the power of the poor man to bestow! For all these things of Mammon pass away; but there is in the smile of him whom we have served a something that we may take with us into heaven.

If, then, ye bear one another's burdens, they who are poor will have mercy on the errors and compassion for the griefs of the rich.

To all men it was said--yes, to Lazarus as to Dives--'Judge not, that ye be not judged.' But think not, O rich man, that we preach only to the poor.