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and exalted the humble, who arraigned the priests 

 and their scheduled worship and asserted the per 

 fect simplicity of approach to the divine Father, 

 he it was who gained and yet keeps the first 

 place in the worship of the world. No prince like 

 Sakya-Muni, no wild warrior-chief like Moham 

 med, no cold philosopher like Confucius, not to 

 be compared with any other saviour of the earth, 

 this Jesus reigns because he was a man and loved 

 his kind, loved them without consideration of 

 place or privilege, his sole scorn and reproach 

 for arrogance, oppression and hypocrisy those 

 vile sins which Jesus never condoned. 



The era of the people, of man in himself as the 

 child of God, arose to light on that strange wild 

 morning in Judea, when over the bare eastern 

 hills rose the violet dawn, and the light thereof 

 showed to the two Marys the angel in the sepul 

 chre of Joseph. Was it for nothing in the fu 

 ture of the life of man on this earth that Jesus 

 was of the common ranks of life, that his chosen 

 friends were of those who laboured for daily bread, 

 that the gentle Mary of Bethany and the ardent 

 Mary of Magdala were the first to see and speak 

 with him in his risen appearance ? All these 

 things were of infinite significance. From that 

 day the people began to be the immediate and 

 ultimate object of the world s progress ; and de- 



