The path of glory for a life lies not far away among the cold mountains of earthly honour, nor yet in any paths of fame where worldly ambition climbs, but close beside us, in the lowly ways of Christ-like ministry. He who stoops to serve the poor and the suffering, in Christ’s name, will find at length that he has served Christ himself. Jesus lives in this world in his people, in every one of them, in the least of them — the poorest, the obscurest, the most down-trodden and despised. He calls them all “my brethren.” The smallest kindness done to one of them he accepts as though done to himself in person.