107. In all the duties of hospitality kindly feeling must be shown to all, but greater respect must be given to the upright. Cic. de Off. II. 20. For “Whosoever receiveth a righteous man, in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man’s reward,” S. Matt. x. 41. as the Lord has said. Such is the favour in which hospitality stands with God, that not even the draught of cold water shall fail of getting a reward. S. Matt. x. 42. Thou seest that Abraham, in looking for guests, received God Himself to entertain. Gen. xviii. 1 ff. Thou seest that Lot received the angels. Gen. xix. 3. And how dost thou know that when thou receivest men, thou dost not receive Christ? Christ may be in the stranger that comes, for Christ is there in the person of the poor, as He Himself says: “I was in prison and thou camest to Me, I was naked and thou didst clothe Me.” S. Matt. xxv. 36..