n of justice for charity, and by taking the
teachings of Jesus seriously, he offends the sleek money-changers who
occupy choice pews in the modern palaces of ease dedicated to the
lowly Nazarene. Such expressions as the following from the magnificent
lecture on "Work" prove far less satisfying to this class than the
popular sermons they are accustomed to hear:

"It is the law of heaven," says Ruskin, "that you shall not be
able to judge what is wise or easy, unless you are first resolved
to judge what is just, and to do it. That is the one thing
constantly reiterated by our master--the order of all others that
is given oftenest: 'Do justice and judgment.' That's your Bible
order; that's the 'service of God.' The one divine work--the one
ordered sacrifice--is to do justice; and it is the last we are
ever inclined to do. Anything rather than that! As much charity
as you choose, but no justice. 'Nay,' you will say, 'charity is
greater than justice.' Yes, it is greater; _it is the summit of
justice_; it is the temple of which justice is the foundation.
_But you can't have the top without the bottom_; you cannot build
upon charity. You must build upon justice, for this main reason,
that you have not, at first, charity to build with. It is the
last reward of good work. It is all very fine to think you can
build upon charity to begin with; but you will find all you have
got to begin with begins at home, and is essentially love of
yourself.

"You well-to-do people, for instance, who are here to-night will
go to 'Divine Service' next Sunday, all nice and tidy, and your
little children will have their tight little Sunday boots on, and
lovely little Sunday feathers in their hats; and you'll think,
complacently and piously, how lovely they look! So they do; and
you love them heartily, and you like sticking feathers in their
hats. That's all right; that _is_ charity; but it is charity
beginning at home. Then you will come to the poor little
crossing-sweeper got up also--in its Sunday dress--the dirtiest
rags it has that it may beg the better: we shall give it a penny,
and think how good we are. That's charity going abroad. But what
does justice say, walking and watching near us? Christian justice
has been strangely mute, and seemingly blind; and, if not blind,
decrepit this