120 QUAKER ASPECTS OF TRUTH 



lips are early taught to speak of things of which no child 

 of tender years should know — these little ones are holding 

 out their hands to us for help. 



Strong men there are, the slaves of drink and lust, 

 with passions far stronger than they can control. Coarse 

 and brutal they may be, but none the less they are our 

 brothers, and if we had been brought up amidst the same 

 surroundings, we should have been coarse and brutal, 

 too. And these, our brethren, hold out their toil-worn 

 hands to us for help. 



And there are fallen women, too, who have strong 

 claims upon us — often more sinned against than sinning 

 — the victims of abominable social conditions for which 

 you and I are, each in his own measure, responsible, 

 Christ, the true type of manhood and chivalry, honoured 

 womanhood, even in the fallen. And these, our sisters, 

 hold out their hands to us for help. 



And there is One who ever identified Himself with 

 suffering humanity, who was wounded for our trans- 

 gressions, and bruised for our iniquities ; He is holding 

 out His pierced hands to us, claiming our sympathy and 

 our service, 



** For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we 

 thus judge that if one died for all, then were all dead, 

 and that He died for all that they which live should no 

 longer live unto themselves, but unto Him who died 

 for them and rose again,'* 



