Excerpt from The Law of Service: A Study in Christian AltruismWhat we are pleased to call Christian civiliza tion, misery that can be remedied only by strenuous and thoughtful exercise of the humane spirit of Christianity. Finally it is written because the author, however severe in judgment of their conduct, yet believes that good men's hearts are better than their heads, and that a crying need of the time, with all its mental energy and activity, is clear thinking about the simple matters here discussed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.