Call him not heretic whose works attest <br />His faith in goodness by no creed confessed. <br />Whatever in love's name is truly done <br />To free the bound and lift the fallen one <br />Is done to Christ. Whoso in deed and word <br />Is not against Him labours for our Lord. <br />When he, who, sad and weary, longing sore <br />For love's sweet service sought the sisters' door <br />One saw the heavenly, one the human guest <br />But who shall say which loved the master best?<br /><br />John Greenleaf Whittier<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/by-their-works-2/
