The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-13


denotes end hearing the marks Of sin
and disobedience. subject to sorrow.
disappointment and trial, in . period
Of probation here. dependant upon
Gods providence and grace, and
doomed to exist when death has over.
taken us. throughout the eternal years;
/ say tho things which We all have in
common are infinitely moro than the
things which divide and distinguish IA
The points Of agreement between men
are mora real and radical and indie.
structible than the points OF disagree
mont The one are vital and generic;
the other are superficial and nOnessen-
tiaL All babes may not look alike. ut
least to fond mothers, but between NO
two children ever born into the human
family. though separated by centuries
and continents and civilizations, u
there any such difference as exists be-
tween . kernel of corn and a grain of
wheat. We are all simply individuals
OF the same distinct species
That there are differences numerous
and broad we are painfully aware
OluCkcHCCS u UlItH' VI ooOiaA az Noht0sO
and position and external circum-
stance. which no fine-spun, sOcialistic
theories will ever be able to remove.
For if they could he made to disappear
to-day. they would reappear to-Mot-
row. There are also diIerences which
lie deeper still, differences of tempera-
ment and disposition. of taste and
capacity. You see them in the same
family, owning the same parentage,
having the same home and educational
influences, and much more in the scat
tered members of the great human
family. Men may be born in the same
geographical zone, but in their intel
lectual and moral zones be as wide
apart as the tropics or the poles. Weak
wills and strong wills, refined tastes
and vulgar tastes. industry and indo-
lence, prudence and waste, moral as
we'll AS physical beauty and deforniity,
things which sometimes come by in
herltcd nature unbiddcn and unde-
sired. and things of which we arc the
conscious or unconscious authors, all
these things create distinctions and
draw sharp lines between man and
man, and between human lilo and hu-
man life. No two of us all, or of ali
the race Of man. are exactly alike in
characteristics or circumstances, in in
ner life or in outer lot. ~ 10 -.s.
And yet beneath all distinctions,
however numerous or broad, there lies
the indestrhctlble tie of a common
brotherhood, taught by the Divine
Teacher and Brother of us all, anu
coming to be more widely felt and ac-
knowledged as the generations go by
"a Life that sprang from common
origin and flows on to a common DIES.
tiny, Gulf-Stream that flows through
all tbs zones of difference and unlike
ness. a Nature that links us all to-
gether in a family fellowship, the on,
Roof of a. common Providence which
extends its shelter over US all, point:
of agreement and evidences of Onencs,
SO marked and vital, SO unchangine
and universal. that we must all con
fess that we have descended from 4;
common stock and are members Vt ,
single race. i'"'
How like we are to each other. anc
how strong is the family resemblance
not simply in our physical structure
but in our mental and moral consttu
ton, in our inherited intuitions, in thu
sense of God, in the cons ciousness o
right and wrong, in the power OF viii
and choice, in the longing TO
growth and progress. and in thu
hope Of q blessed Immortality, in thos,
things which are our common posses
sion, which are inseparable from us
which make us what we are and lie a
the basis of all moral and personal be
ing. .
And Christianity harmonizes witt
these great essential facts of every soul
it is the common religion of common
: people, just such as lived in the tim
Of Christ, just such as we are, and jus
such as we meet everywhere; itappeal
to the deep, universal needs whic
, grow out of sense of sin which rank
/ les and testers in every breast, nee
, of pardon, of peace. of comfort, of pei
J sonal purity, of reconciliation wit
God, in word, of better, com
pleter. q diviner life. These are tn
common needs of our common human
, ity. which bind us IN fellowship tn,
we can never break, which cause on
: differences to melt away and disappea
, in the al-embracing tide of commo
brotherhood, and which Christ. OF
D elder Brother, came to meet and sa
isfy in the fullness of His redeemin
and purifying grace. If it be true tf,
zone touch of nature makes the who
, world kin" here we have touch of
g common nature at every essonti;
q point, making us all kin. and the 'ue
z of the Divine nature in Christ wit
1 power to exalt this our common HI
: manity, to Heavenly kinship with a
: that Is holy and immortal-Rcv. Hen'
0 H. King. IN Standard.