Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.' "O shallowness of human judgments! It was enough to be born a Samaritan in order to be rejected by the priest, and despised by the Levite.

Yet now, what to us the priest and the Levite, of God's chosen race though they were?
They passed from the hearts of men when they passed the sufferer by the wayside; while this loathed Samaritan, half thrust from the pale of the Hebrew, becomes of our family, of our kindred; a brother amongst the brotherhood of Love, so long as Mercy and Affliction shall meet in the common thoroughfare of Life! "'Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ.' Think not, O my brethren, that this applies only to almsgiving, to that relief of distress which is commonly called charity, to the obvious duty of devoting from our superfluities something that we scarcely miss to the wants of a starving brother.No.I appeal to the poorest amongst ye, if the worst burdens are those of the body,--if the kind word and the tender thought have not often lightened your hearts more than bread bestowed with a grudge, and charity that humbles you by a frown.
Sympathy is a beneficence at the command of us all,--yea, of the pauper as of the king; and sympathy is Christ's wealth.

Sympathy is brotherhood.

The rich are told to have charity for the poor, and the poor are enjoined to respect their superiors.

Good: I say not to the contrary.