There are those who understand, Stephen Kanitz as an example, that in the hard and misunderstood field of social service there is room not only for institutions that “teach to fish”, but also for those that practice the so-called service. In this last case there would be included the organizations that cater for drug and alcohol addicts, and sick people in general, temporarily unable to support their kin.

The subject has come in good time and should be meditated on by all those who engage in social service, Spiritist and non-Spiritist.

There is no conflict, and there should be no conflict between these two types of social service, which can actually co-exist in the same organization, where besides actions focused on social promotion, also on services to aid those who need, at the moment, more of compassion rather than instruction. Companies and people required to financially cooperate with such institutions must also be aware that it is equally valid to help those that “teach to fish” and the other ones, as long as there is seriousness of proposals and the designed work be really essential in the region they work at.

As for the Spiritist social service there is, however, one aspect that we, Spiritist, cannot fail to notice.

According to Manoel Philomeno de Miranda ("Stories of Destiny", chap. 21, pp. 196 - 199, book psychographed by Divaldo P. Franco), when the "Francisco Xavier" Spiritist Center has its building planned, the spiritual leader Natércio, fond admirer and disciple of Francis Xavier, who was on Earth tireless worker of the Doctrine of Christ, addressed Jesus’ loyal Apostle begging his spiritual sponsorship for the Center that was being built. Received by this High Spirit, Natércio showed him the program he wanted to do, whose aim was to increase among men the power of faith and the purity of moral values, according to the simple rules of the "followers of Christ", without dogmas and formal stuff.

As soon as he concluded his explanation, the instructor received the thumbs up from the Missionary, with a condition: he should preserve the Gospel in its pure line and words, in an environment of discipline and service, with all the tools for charity in its countless forms, having, though, in mind that material help would come naturally from spiritual service, mandatory, immediate, and not preferential. "You should never forget that the greatest need is still the moral values, which the Book of Life provides abundantly."

Recalling the episode, Manoel Philomeno de Miranda warns us: "We think a lot about people to feed, bodies to cover, diseases to heal... Without saying they are not urgent, the Comforter has as main goal the Spirit, in its immortal reality, where come from all the situations and conjectures, that come out through the body and human, social contingent therefore... Social service in Spiritism is invaluable, though, we warn the ’workers of the last hour' against exaggerations, so that exhaustion with external works does not deplete the strength of enthusiasm or faith, because of tiredness and deceptions.” "Evangelizing, instructing, guiding, putting oil in the light bulb of heart, so that the clarity of the Spirit glitters in the night of suffering, those are urgent tasks, basic for the reconstruction of Christianity."