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Christian Charity in the Ancient Church (Paperback)
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CHAPTER III. THE MANIFESTATION OF LOVE IN CHRIST JESUS. That which
was wanting both in heathenism and in Judaism, is to be found in
the Christian community. From the very beginning not only did its
members, each in his own sphere, recognise compassion for the
distressed. as one of the necessary duties of their new life, but
the community as such from the very outset accepted as a task laid
upon it the practice of charity by means of its different
organizations. And although this practice, like the life of the
community generally, sank often in the course of time to a very low
ebb, it never altogether failed. The Christian Church can never be
conceived of as without charity: it was inherent in it from the
very beginning. And it was so, not only because its Lord and Head
taught love and commanded love, but because He Himself practised
it. He was not only a teacher of love, or a lawgiver of love, but
His life was also the first example of a life of love. It was not
the maxims which He uttered about it, nor the commandments which He
gave, but the fact that in Him personally love was manifest, that
moved by love He came to us, and lived upon earth a life which from
its very first breath to its latest was spent in the service of
love, and that He finally, through the greatness of His love, gave
Himself for us to the death of the cross; that is the beginning and
the neverfailing source of charity amid His followers. The
beginning and the end of the history which we wish to narrate lies
in these words of the Master: " The jjon of man came not to be
ministered unto, but to minister. and to give His life a ransom for
manjlj. Ttisnot from the idea of the Church that we must set out,
but from the idea of the kingdom of God; for Christiana exercise
charity not in respect of their mem...
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