Charles Spurgeon on doing good where we are

In his book ‘Counsel for Christian Workers’, Charles Spurgeon writes the following:

“Many Christians do all the good they can five miles from their own house, when the time they take to go there and back might well be spent in the vineyard at home. I do not think it would be a wise regulation of the parochial authorities if they required the inhabitants of St Mary, Newington, to remove the snow from the pavement of St Pancras, and the inhabitants of St Pancras to keep clean the pavement of St Mary, Newington. It is best and most convenient that each household should sweep before his own door; so it is our duty to do, as believers, all the good we can in the place where God has been pleased to locate us, and especially in our own households”.