There are children who forget the love and sacrifices of their parents and repay their countless kindnesses, not with grateful affection, honor, obedience, thoughtfulness, and service, but with disregard, indifference, disobedience, dishonor, sometimes even with shameful neglect and unkindness.

There are those who receive help from friends in unnumbered ways, through years, help that brings to them great aid in life--promotion, advancement, improvement in character, widening of privileges and opportunities, tender kindness that warms, blesses, and inspires the heart, and enriches, refines, and ennobles the life--who yet seem never to recognize or appreciate the benefit and the good they receive.

They appear to feel no obligation, no thankfulness.

They make no return of love for all of love's ministry.

They even repay it with complaint, with criticism, with bitterness.