the name and for the sake of Jesus Christ, the Son of Man.

Instead of a kingdom of division, the Church was a kingdom of union.
Charity, and generosity, and mutual help took the place of
selfishness, and distrust, and oppression. While men had been
heathens, their pattern had been that of the priest who saw the
wounded man lying, and looked on him and passed by. Their pattern
now was that of the good Samaritan, who helped and saved the wounded
stranger, simply because he was a man.

In one word, the new thing which the Gospel brought into the world
was--humanity. The thing which the Gospel keeps in the world still,
is humanity. It brought other things, and blessed things, but this
it brought. And why? Because through the Church was poured on men
the spirit of God. And what is that, save humanity?--the spirit of
the compassionate, all generous Son of Man?--the spirit of charity
and love?

What were the woes of humanity to the heathen? If a man fell in the
race of life, so much the worse for him. So much the better for
them, for there was one more competitor out of the way. One of the
greatest Roman poets, indeed, talks of the pleasure which men have in
seeing others in trouble, just as, when the storm is tossing up the
sea, it is sweet to sit on the shore, and watch the ships labouring
in the waves. Not, he says, that one takes actual pleasure in seeing
a man in trouble, but in the thought that one is not in the trouble
oneself. A rather lame excuse, I think, for a rather inhuman
sentiment.

Yes, the heathen could feel pleasure in being safe while others were