We know very well the essential characters of this fresh mentality; the power, the enthusiasm, the radiant joy, the indifference to pain and hardship it confers.

But we can no more produce it from these raw materials than the chemist's crucible can produce life.

The whole experience of St.Francis is implied in the Beatitudes.

The secret of Elizabeth Fry is the secret of St.John.The doctrine of General Booth is fully stated by St.Paul.

But it was not by referring inquirers to the pages of the New Testament that the first brought men fettered by things to experience the freedom of poverty; the second faced and tamed three hundred Newgate criminals, who seemed at her first visit "like wild beasts"; or the third created armies of the redeemed from the dregs of the London Slums.