(2) The second objective- that stands out clearly in Christ and in Him alone, is mankind. First manhood, ie. man viewed inwardly, secondly mankind, #.e. wan viewed—individually. The present confusion and distress in the industrial and political world has arisen from our partial treatment of man, that we reserve our respect for those who belong to certain classes or parties or nations, refusing it to the individual og such. There are jingoes who have nothing but contempt for a man if he happened to be born a German, Communists nourish the same blind enmity for one who is a capitalist. The unco' guid often have no eyes or understanding for a publican, an actress or a jockey. There are people of a cheap education out here to whom a coolie is of less value than a horse.
This refusal to have anything to do with mankind, but only with those people who come into the categories we approve, is a defiance of the Chistian spirit. The Kingdom of Christ knows nothing of classes or masses, partisans or factions, but is concerned with the individuals of which mankind consists, and as Christians we are to approach everyone with the respect Christ bids us have and the understanding He will teach us to have.
The Kingdom of Greece came to grief for all its philosophy through these contemptuous divisions of mankind. Imperial Rome lasted far longer by virtue of the law that gave mankind its rights. But the real rights of mankind cannot be rendered by law, but only by the spirit of good will that believes and hopes the best of all men. "That ig the task of Christendom, and because Christendom refuses it is being punished. It is indeed no light task to pierce through conventions to the individual worth of mankind. Yet, as Dr. Inge has just been. saying to the Britich Association, science never treats things in the mas but in its parts. Still more true it is that love can never be content until every individual of our race is lifted into the
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