into your hearts to make you humane, as it descended on Christ, that
he might be the most humane of all human beings--the very Son of Man,
who knew, understood, loved, suffered for, and redeemed all mankind,
because in him all humanity was gathered into one.

That spirit is not far from any of you. Surely he is in all your
hearts already, if you be worthy of the name of men. He is in you,
unless you be inhuman, and that, I trust, none of you are. From him
come every humane thought and feeling you ever had. All kindliness,
pity, mercy, generosity; all sense or justice and honour toward your
fellow-men; all indignation when you hear of their being wronged,
tortured, enslaved; all desire to help the fallen, to right the
oppressed;--whence do these come? From the world? Most surely not.
From the flesh? St. Paul says not. From the Devil? No one, I
trust, will say that, save his own children, the Pharisees, if there
be any of them left, which we will hope there are not. No! all these
come from the gracious spirit of humanity--the spirit of Christ and
of God. Pray to him, that he may take possession of all your
thoughts, feelings, and desires, and purge you from every taint of
selfishness. Give up your hearts to him; and grieve not, by any
selfishness, passion, or hardness of your own, his gracious
instructions: but let him teach you, and guide you, and purge you,
and sanctify you, till you come to the stature of a perfect man, to
the fulness of the measure of Christ, who could perfectly hate the
sin, and yet perfectly love the sinner; who could see in every man,
even in his enemies and murderers, a friend and a brother.

And you who are afflicted, remember, that if the spirit of humanity
be the spirit of Christ, the spirit of Christ is also the spirit of
humanity. What do I mean? This: that if that good Samaritan had