I can frankly affirm that I have written with malice toward none and with charity for all.... I have tried—so far as erring human judgment permits—to lift the issues out of the plane of personal selfishness and hate, and to put them where the white light of the just and pitying spirit of Jesus can play upon them. If I have failed in that effort, it is my sin. If others in reading fail to respond in the same spirit, it is their sin.

p.xv - Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907) - Introduction