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Our Relation To Each-0ther.
Dear Neighbor:

NO. Zs
Dear Neighbor:
Last week we considered somewhat
the tendency of things, where selfish
ness is fostered, and there is no recog-
milton of our relation one to another.
This week we will consider the result,
where this relation is felt and its po.
tency recognized.
There is one great truth we must
never forget when we enter upon the
construction of character, and that is
uniformity of sentiment.
There are but few men, if any, no.
toriously bad in certain habits, who
are notoriously good in others. 1t is
impossible for man to distinguish
himself in the bad and the good at the
same time.
There must be uniformity of princi-
pie, and this hamonizes life and char
acter.
No man can devote his life to the
cultivation of selfishness and hate and
ever become generous and loving.
To be the one thing, is not to be the
other.
When you decide for the right and
begin to cultivate just those traits OF
character, and just those thoughts and
feelings, which develop practically
your true relation to others, then all
the opposite feelings and sentiments
must give way, and you begin to see
and feel the brightest and best side to
human nature.
You begin to see an approxima-
ton to the original design of Creation,
as brought to light in the nature and
character of the Son of God.
You see a living example of practi'
cal Christianity.
Human relation was the burden of
Christ life. 1t is the principle of
life, and yet it is principle we must
learn, so Christ came into the world to
magnify the truth, and develop in us
the principle.
We stand as human.beings INSOFAR
ably connected, and it is this necessary
relation, to be formulated according to
demonstration of our own character,
which imposes upon usall responsible
ty.
We stand related by all the ties OF
nature-by all the environments and
feelings of a common brotherhood,
and whatever we make ourselves in
cultivation or practice, is exactly the
relation we sustain to Others.
This is the ground of all RESPONSE
bility.
Oh that men could be led to see 1t
and to feel the force of such moral
relation.
Such fact recognized, leads to the
development of love, generosity and a
care for others.
No mans life is worth anything to
the world until he developes sufficient
ly in the right direction, to feel the
force of his brotherhood-until he
takes to heart his brother'sinterest and
recognizes it as his own.
It is this that brings out true man.
hood, and broadens and deepens the
operations of individual life.
In short there can be no develop
ment of the finer sensibilities of hu-
man nature, without a consciousness 8
of our relation to others. This is what
life means and it is the only rational
idea upon which a conscious immor-
tality can be based.
Ignore this fact, and the history of
any people will show that nothing can
be made of human life short of such a
Man is at his best when he is the
Lying exponent of some other life.
1t brightens the world. 1t fills life
with peace. 1t becomes tha center of
emittinglinfluences, trans
forming in nature and saving in their
consequences.
Peace is what the world needs, and
to have it, we must recognize our rela-
ton to each other.
Such an attainment will make wars
to cease and introduce the race into the
dawn.
May the day soon come when all
shall feel the Fatherhood of God, and
become fully conscious of the brother
hood of man.
w cJhIJTJ MARTIN