Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-12
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brethren" He spoke as follows:
1t is said that She chemical a~nalysis of
the crimson fluid from the brain of an
American, Monaghan, Arabian, or any
other type Of race Of mankind reveals
certain essential characteristics that are
similar, thus corroborating the statement
of the scripture that We are made of one
blood, and proves that the whole human
race are of q blood relation. Had this
been known universally man would not
have sold his fellows blood for 30 many
ounces of gold, and there would
have been less of strife snd discord, and
more of peace and happiness. When we
look out into this world and view its
scenes of conflict and carnage, and wit
ness man wrecking one another's for
tunes and estates, and observe revenge.
full man arrayed against his fellow man,
we might almost suppose them to have
descended from ancestors of an entirely
different blood, but that the fact is too
we'll established to be doubted that we
are all of one blood.
In the midst of this discord, we see
many sympsthetital relations calculated
to help man to a better plane of existence.
There are many evidences of spirits will
ing to resort 10 untiring efforts for the
purpose of exaltiug humanity. These
moral associations seeking to draw men
from strife and uplift and bring them to-
gether have done good. To make the
world better we must unity our interests,
and share one auother's joys and sorrows.
Whatever does this helps humanity. The
Bible says. Bear ye one another's bur
dens." The ecientiic world says, let the
fittest survive, and let the poor and week
fade away. But the Bible says to let
the strong bear the burdens for the weak.
Of all the evil spirits that can be con-
iured up from the Internal regions that of
selfshness is the worst. Some say what
will aaelfsh mandol Iwouldlike to know
what selfshness will not do. 1t will op-
press the widows and orphans, take the
hard earnings of the mechanic, seize up
on that which 1t has no right to take, and
run away with it TO live III luxury in for.
'eign LANDS.
There has been q great demand for a
principle broad enough in Its praotical
workings to reach out beyond the social
caste, and taking the whole race and
making them one great famiiy-one
brotherhood.
Such a relationship as this, Christ
came to establish. This is the brother
hood taught in the text, and secondly
that he is not ashamed of 1t.
He became a brother in the physical or
earthly sense of the word, and made all
men equal to him, but 1t is not all those
who enjoy his brotherhood in the higher
sense of the word, In the spiritual sense.
Christ was the son of God, and we must
become the sons of God by regeneration
ere We can enjoy the brotherhood of
Christ in the spiritual sense.
Did you ever see IN adopted child
taken into the bosom Of q wealthy fami-
ly? Taken from q poor house, where
they had been living in poverty and neg
iec', their tsttered garments thrown
aside, and clothed in comfortable in ele-
CANT raiment, and received as heir In in.
heritance? How this exalts their condi-
ton. Then how 1t e1alts our condition
to be brought up out of the degradation
of sinfulness and received into the fam
lily of God as joint heirs with Christ!
Then we must be brothers of one an
other. We must not be ashamed of one
another. 1t is said of the celebrated
Gladstone that he visited a poor street.
sweeper wko was sick. A Christian
friend coming In to see the little fellow
SAID, 81 suppose nc one has been in to
see you" eyes," he replied, "Mr.
Gladstone has been In to see me-" No
wonder that man has been loved and
honored. In this same manner Christ
reaches down to lift us up. Is it not q
wonder that he Ia not ashamed of us.
But this fact Is certain he was NOT
ashamed Of 1t while he was upon the
earth. He associated not with the rich,
and the noble, but with the poor and
ignorant and weak. He was not ashamed
of Peter in his backslidipg nor of the
doubling Thomas. He was not ashamed
when he rose from the dead to speak
to Mary and tell where to
tell his disciples to come and meet
him, and call them his brethren. Christ
is never making new discoveries. He
knew all about us before he undertook
this work. Then again he is not ashamed
of the weaknesses and susceptibilities OF
our natures. These natures are to be
always in existence, and always susceptible
t, development. He knows that there Ii
that within us that is Of higher value. A
arulptor once looked upon a rough hewn
block of marble. Some one asked hin
what heS was thinking, and he said,
was thinking of the beautiful angel tina
i, imprisoned in that block, and l shall
soon set it at liber'y. Forthwith he wen
to work with chinl and hammer, and af
ter a time there appeared the form and
features of the angel which he had seer
in his thoughts.
We are sometimes led to look even up
on ourselves as being so degraded that
there is nothing good to be expected OF
us. 1t is in this class of people that
Christ perceives scarcely noticeable the lit.
tie germs of good, that only requires the
development that can be produced by
his loving kindness, as the skill of the
sculptor brought out the form of the an
gel from the rough block.
Let US learn not to be ashamed of Him.
That is one great trouble. / am afraid
that there are ONE who would rather be
called almost anything else than a Chris
tian. They would rather be seen al
most anywhere else than in a church.
do not find that Jesus says he will be
ashamed of any except those who are
ashamed of him, but he does say, "Who'
soever shall be ashamed me of him also
shall the Son of Mar be ashamed"
l have readiof a young lady who when 9
chIld was saved from being destroyed by
fire by her mother who plunged into the
flames and saved her darling at the risk