But the highest and most real help we can give them only through loving them.
"When I have attempted," says Emerson, "to give myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick--no more.

They eat your services like apples, and leave you out.

But love them, and they feel you and delight in you all the time." When we love others we can help them in all deep and true ways.

We can put blessings into their hearts instead of merely into their hands.

We can enter into their very being, becoming new breath of life to them,--quickening, inspiration, impulse.
"What is the best a friend can be To any soul, to you or me?
Not only shelter, comfort, rest-- Inmost refreshment unexpressed; Not only a beloved guide To thread life's labyrinth at our side, Or with love's torch lead on before; Though these be much, there yet is more.
"The best friend is an atmosphere Warm with all inspirations dear, Wherein we breathe the large, free breath Of life that hath no taint of death.
Our friend is an unconscious part Of every true beat of our heart; A strength, a growth, whence we derive God's health, that keeps the world alive." There is a touching and very suggestive story of a good woman in Sweden, who opened a home for crippled and diseased children--children for whom no one else was ready to care.