But may it not be that ours is the hand that must be stretched out in love, and laid, in Christ's name, on the life that is in danger?
Certain it is, at least, that each one of us who knows the love of Christ is ordained to be as Christ to others; that is, to be the messenger to carry to them the gift of Christ's grace and help, and to show to them the spirit of Christ, the patience, gentleness, thoughtfulness, love, and yearning of Christ.

We are taught to say, "Christ liveth in me." If this be true, Christ would love others through us, and our touch must be to others as the very touch of Christ himself.

Every Christian ought to be, in his human measure, a new incarnation of the Christ, so that people shall say: "He interprets Christ to me.

He comforts me in my sorrow as Christ himself would do if he were to come and sit down beside me.

He is hopeful and patient as Christ would be if he were to return and take me as his disciple." But before we can be in the place of Christ to sorrowing, suffering, and struggling ones, we must have the mind in us that was in him.