"This moral, spiritual interest in the poor, we should express and make effectual, by approaching them, by establishing an intercourse with them, as far as consists with other duties. We must live with them, not as another race, but as brethren. Our Christian principles must work a new miracle, it must expel the spirit of caste. The outward distinctions of life must seem to us not "a great gulf" but superficial lines, which the chances of a day may blot out, and which are broad only to the narrow minded."  William Ellery Channing.