“Let us consider that nothing has so much contributed to the progress of the superstition of Christians, as their charity to strangers. I think we ought to discharge this obligation ourselves, establish hospitals in every place—for it would be a shame for us to abandon our poor, while the impious Gallileans [meaning Christians,] provide not only for their own, but also for ours; welcoming them into their agape [love], they attract them, as children are attracted, with cakes.”
Julian the Apostate (331-363) contemporary of Basil the Great, Last Roman Emperor in Constantinian Dynasty, who renounced his faith and yet admired the charity and love of the Christians in Lectures on the Nature and Dangerous Tendency of Modern Infidelity by Rev. Levi Tucker (Cleveland: Francis B. Penniman, 1837) 141; cf. Schmidt, Alvin J. Social Results of Early Christianity, 1907.