Charity begins at home

Charity is nothing but kindness, fellow-feeling, and sympathy shown spontaneously to the poor, needy, and suffering creatures. It is one of the noblest of virtues a human being can possess. All great men of the world are known and remembered for their charity. There are people in the society who love others with neighborly feeling, help the poor and the suffering, but they prefer to remain unknown. They are the best examples of charitable persons. It is a great virtue and ought to be imbibed by one and all. Charity begins at home. It means that a person's first duty is to love and help the members of his own family in which he is born and brought up. He is naturally acquainted with the sorrows and suffering of the members of that family. So it is his first duty to sympathize with them. Thereby he learns the virtues of charity and its application to others outside the family.