Surely the latter would soon be, if once they had a glimpse of how much the coming of the kingdom is retarded by defect of courtesy.

The people I mean are slow to _like_, and until they come to _like_, they _seem_ to dislike.

I have known such whose manner was fit to imply entire disapprobation of the very existence of those upon whom they looked for the first time.

They might then have been saying to themselves, "_I_ would never have created such people!" Had I not known them, I could not have imagined them lovers of God or man, though they were of both.

True courtesy, that is, courtesy born of a true heart, is a most lovely, and absolutely indispensable grace--one that nobody but a Christian can thoroughly develop.