And when the time was ripe to diffuse the truth among the ethnics, it was not a senator of Rome or a philosopher of Athens who was personally appointed by our Lord for that office, but a Jew of Tarsus, who founded the seven churches of Asia.
From his biography of Lord George Bentinck, Disraeli points out that the mission to spread Christian truth to the Gentiles was entrusted to a Jew, not a Roman or Greek.
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In these days of labour, the leader of a party must be the man who does the work, and that work cannot now be accomplished without the devotion of a life.
He valued life only as a means of fulfilling duty, and truly it may be said of him, that he feared none but God.
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