Faith and works go together...
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Faith and works go together. Works is not something to be "left on the backburner" until we get around to it -- it is the mark of a living and lively faith. In World War II, a young man became a conscientious objector, and spent part of his time of service in a small town mental hospital, where patients on the violent ward were regularly beaten and straitjacketed. Thanks to the work of him and other conscientious objectors, such treatment came to an end. As the years went on, he worked with the poor in El Salvador and in India. He went to medical school and opened a practice in a small town in Nebraska. But he continued works of service as a volunteer physician with Eskimos in Alaska and with Indians on two reservations. Although he has retired from private practice, he continues to work part-time in clinics, and on the reservations. -- Johnson-Hoy
