“Jesus Christ was the first to bring the value of every human soul to light, and what he did no one can any more undo” (Harnack). But it remains for every individual to accept and reaffirm that religious faith as his own guiding principle according to which he proposes to live. We shall be at one with the spirit of Christianity and of modern civilization if we approach all men with the expectation of finding beneath commonplace, sordid, or even repulsive externals some qualities of love, loyalty, heroism, aspiration, or repentance, which prove the divine in man. Kant expressed that reverence for personality in his doctrine that we must never treat a man as a means only, but always as an end in himself. So far as our civilization treats men merely as labor force, fit to produce wealth for the few, it is not yet Christian. Any man who treats his fellows in that way, blunts his higher nature; as Fichte says, whoever treats another as a slave, becomes a slave. We might add, whoever treats him as a child of God, becomes a child of God and learns to know God. “The principle of reverence for personality is the ruling principle in ethics, and in religion; it constitutes, therefore, the truest and highest test of either an individual or a civilization; it has been, even unconsciously, the guiding and determining principle in all human progress; and in its religious interpretation, it is, indeed, the one faith that keeps meaning and value for life” (President Henry C. King). Suggestions for Thought and Discussion I. _The Ordinary Estimate of Men_ 1. How much do we care for a man if he is of no practical use to us? 2. On what basis do we ordinarily value men? II. _Jesus’ Estimate of Men_ 1. Which source passages in the daily readings seemed to put the feeling of Jesus in the clearest light? 2. How did the religious insight of Jesus reenforce his social feeling? 3. To what extent is it possible to duplicate his sense of humanity without his consciousness of God? III. _The Valuation of the Individual in Modern Life_ 1. List the evidences that modern society values men as such apart from economic utility or standing, or show that it does not so value them. 2. Is the tendency in modern life toward a lower or higher valuation of the individual? To what extent is this due to the influence of Christianity? 3. How do the statistics of industrial accidents agree with our Christian valuation of life? IV. _The Test of History_ 1. What widespread and successful movements for social justice have there been outside the territory influenced by Christianity? 2. How do modern missions serve as an experiment station for the problem of this chapter? 3. What connection was there between the Wesleyan revival and the rise of the trade union movement in England? V. _For Special Discussion_ 1. Do permanent class differences necessarily result in a slighter social feeling for the inferior class? 2. Describe the class lines drawn in your home town.