Christianity in Action

“But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with
compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered,
like sheep having no shepherd.”
Matthew 9:36 

H.H. Lee said that at one end of the truck terminal, where he worked, was a coal company with a high fence around it. Nearby was a railroad, and each day several freight trains passed by. Lee often noticed that the owner of the yard, who was a Christian, threw chunks of coal over the fence at various places along the track. One day, he asked the man why he did this. With compassion in his voice, he replied, “A poor elderly woman lives across the street, and I know that her old-age pension is inadequate to buy enough coal. After the trains go by, she walks along and picks up the pieces she thinks have fallen from the coal car behind the engine. Her eyesight is failing, and she doesn’t realize that diesels have replaced steam locomotives. I don’t want to disappoint her, so I just throw some pieces over the fence to help her.”