Show special message 0 we will talk of compassion this tim time e for man has not grasped the full meaning 1 of it jesus showed what it was by his use of it but man has confused the idea of compassion with that of pity and tolerance it is neither of these but something far different compassion is a blending of understanding der standing with the right attitude towards the thing understood it is not pity for pity is a personal feeling for the thing pitied there need be no personal feeling in compassion tonij only understanding with its accod i lanying attitude towards the thing I 1 understood I 1 so compassion carries a certain amount of appraisal in it this ap may be commendatory or the opposite but it is there while pity is apt to be entirely personal per ronal and so i warped the opposite of a fair end and i impersonal appraising of a situation compassion also carries the idea of aid with it jesus always gave help with his compassion he understood the situation and remedied it As man advances into the kimg dom his personal attitudes attitude s give way I 1 j more I 1 and more to impersonal ones I 1 his pity is replaced by compassion I 1 his censure or criticism by appraisal 1 a sizing up of a situation from the standpoint of its effect upon the per sons involved the one viewpoint is entirely human the other is divine clity is human compassion assion is divine pity gives way to compassion as man gradually outgrows his present outlook I 1 as it is changed into a higher conception of his duty towards his fellow man I 1 reprint from the collection of recordings cor dings called GODS WAY FOR MAN |