Say that I try to love my neighbor as myself. The best among us to-day may, but for the mercy of God, be the worst among us tomorrow. The true Christian virtue is the virtue which never despairs of a fellow-creature. The true Christian faith believes in Man as well as in God. Frail and fallen as we are, we can rise on the wings of repentance from earth to heaven.
Humanity is sacred.
Humanity has its immortal destiny. He turned away for a moment, struggling with the emotion which she had roused in him. She sighed bitterly as the hopeless aspiration wrung her heart. She looked up at him with a start. She shrank at the question.