Let a man have what he will, and do what he will, it signifies nothing without charity; which surely implies that charity is the great thing, and that everything which has not charity in some way contained or implied in it is nothing, and that this charity is the life and soul of all religion, without which all things that wear the name of virtues are empty and vain.
Jonathan Edwards

The Bridge

The Bridge

The Bridge

An old man going a lone highway
Came at the evening cold and gray
To a chasm vast and deep and wide;

The old man crossed in the twilight dim; The sullen stream had no fears for him
But he turned when safe on the other side And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near

“You are wasting your time with building here. You never again will pass this way
Your journey will end with the closing day; You have crossed the chasm deep and wide;

Why build you this bridge at eventide?” The builder lifted his old gray head
“Good friend in the way that I’ve come”, he said,

“There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way,
This stream that has been as naught to me To the fair-haired youth might a pitfall be.

He, too, must cross in the twilight dim: Good friend, I am building the bridge for him.”

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