The love of Christ was above all the wretchedness of His poor disciples, above all their failure; and thus if it were a right feeling, He could feel with them; if it were an infirmity, He could feel for them. He can enter into it all in a divine way, and with divine goodness, just because He is above it all. When I am not above a thing it acts upon myself; but when I am, I can think for it all as well as with it. And He says to us, " Love one another as I have loved you." By clinging close to Him we can love in the same kind of way in which He loved, and thus recognize anything good, and of Him, in our brethren, and learn to esteem others better than ourselves.
. (S. N. D.)