Christ had this "simple, broad, love of humanity." He didn't as-societe with the pious only.. The great complaint of the officially pious people of his day, was that he associated with people that were "no class." Nothing is more cheering and astonishing than this grand broad humanity of Jesus. He dined with the friends of Matthew on the day of Matthew's conversion, to the great scandal of the Pharisees. He had "'genuine "love" for man, just as he is, in all his ignorance, his want of lofty thought. He could sit down and talk with ordinary men and women, and make them feel at home with Him. Charles Lamb once said, we should all stand up if Shakspeare entered the room, but
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