want men who
believe that self-sacrifice, not selfishness, is at the top of all, who
are sure that family life is made in heaven and is made in the image of
God's life, who know that in the present is the eternal, to go and live
and work and die in our villages. But Kingsley shows it is not enough
to give alms or other social benefits--we must do more than that, we
must raise their whole {61} life and condition. I believe myself that
this can only be done from inside. Thus, when God wished to redeem
man, He did it from inside. Man himself fought and conquered. Deity
entered into humanity. It is not merely that we must live simply,
think simply, work, as they do. That is well, but we must do more. If
we want to look at them from the inside, I know only one way--the old,
old way which God Himself adopts. We must love them, love the Christ,
the Spirit in them--not the beast, the devil in them. Like attracts
like. To love and to detect that, we must have some of that Spirit,
that Christ.

That means to say that to help others from the inside, we must be right
inside ourselves. And yet none of us are right inside. But there is
that in us which is right, that in us which is not ourselves, but is
deeper than ourselves. A Son who will make us true sons, a Brother who
will teach us how to be brothers, a Human Being who will show us what
is in all human beings; a Love who will teach us what we always fancy
we know, but what we don't know (else we should be divine)--how to
love; a Man who will make us saints and gentlemen--the Man Christ
Jesus. Yes, and there is in us a Great Spirit who is uniting us by
invisible bonds to all that is good and healthy and Godlike, a Spirit
who disciplines our will when it is weakest and most self-indulgent,
who trains our spirit and fights our battles against the evil spirit, a
Person who makes us persons. How then do men differ? If in every man
there is the Light which lightens him, the Christ, the Spirit, what is
the difference between good and bad men? Does {62} a good man possess
religion, or faith, or love? No, the best men would tell you they were
possessed by faith and love, rather than that they possessed them.
What faith or love they have is not a possession--it is in them, not of
them, not belonging to them. It comes from the Christ in them. The
difference between men is not that one is inspired and another is not,
but that one yields to the Spirit, another does not.