In her "Tribute to President McKinley" Mary Baker Eddy speaks in highest terms of his humane character, his affection, tenderness, and sympathy. She says (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 291), "His humanity, weighed in the scales of divinity, was not found wanting." And soon she adds, "May his history waken a tone of truth that shall reverberate, renew euphony, emphasize humane power, and bear its banner into the vast forever."
Mrs. Eddy constantly emphasizes humane power. She who was destined to bring the Comforter to mankind in fulfillment of the Master's prophecy (John 14:16) would be certain to stress the might of God-derived characteristics to express the will of the Father in human experience. One's demonstration of divinity is evidenced in his humaneness, since it is through the living qualities of divine Love that the real man, God's likeness, appears, and with that likeness the dominion of the spiritual over the material.
In the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew (verses 31-46) is the Master's parable of the judgment of Christ in which the sheep are separated from the goats, the righteous from the unrighteous. Those blessed of the Father and chosen to enter His kingdom would be so rewarded because they had lived the love they knew in humane actions. They had fed the hungry, given drink to the thirsty, clothed the naked, visited the sick, comforted the prisoner. Christ Jesus puts these words into the mouth of the King, the Christ: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
