But the greatest school for the learning of pitifulness is yonder at the feet of Jesus.
Yes, the greatest school ofpitifulness is in the presence of Christ.
Mercy denotes the Divine pitifulness towards feeble, suffering men, akin to those "compassions of God" to which the apostle repeatedly appeals.
What struck him so forcibly in these years was the pitifulness of earthly life, exposed as it is to disasters, not allotted by destiny, but brought about by a conjunction of stupidity with malevolence.
Yet even here the tender pitifulness of Dorothea overpasses a barrier that to any other would be impassable.