"It was this revolution in man's way of looking at his fellows which Jesus came to accomplish . If we may dare to put it thus boldly - God made Humanity His neighbour. Beholding Humanity robbed of its true nature, stripped of its ideal, wounded by its sins, unable to rise, He came down to it, entered it, healed, and restored it. He "was made man." The Incarnation has made human nature itself sacred. The Christian, the follower of Christ, must therefore see in every man his neighbour. The claim is not his class or condition, but his mere humanity. And the Incarnation not only revealed this ideal of neighbourliness, but made it possible for us to realize it. Man in himself we might not be able to love - but the Christ in man we can. "St. Francis," we are told, "was riding one day near Assisi while he was still perplexed as to the nature of his future work, when suddenly he was startled by a loathsome speсtacle. A leper was seated at the roadside. For a moment he gave way to natural horror, till he remembered that he wished to be Christ's soldier. Then he returned and dismounted and went up to the poor sufferer and giving an alms kissed lovingly the hand which received it. Strong in his hard-won victory he rode on; but when he looked back, there was no beggar to be seen; and therefore his heart was filled with unutterable joy, for he knew that he had seen the Lord." So in his simple way he realized the truth of neighbourliness which he afterwards taught his brothers. "When thou seest a poor man, my brother, an image of Christ is set before thee. And in the weak behold the weakness which He took upon him." "