The record-union., 1891-06-22

the gospel of the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man. who taught his disciples
to pray for the coming of the kingdom of
sneered at him, the orthodox preachers de-
nounced him. He was reviled as a dreamer,
as a uisturber, as communist, and finally
organized society took the alarm and he was
cruc1fled between two thieves. But the word
went forth and, spread by fugitives and slaves,
ma MADE It's way against power and persecution
rotting, old civilization brought the germ OF
the new. Then the privileged classes rallied
again, carved the effigy of the man of the peo-
pie IN the courts ana on the tOmbs of kings,
in His name consecrated inequality and
Wrested His gospel TO the defense of social in
justice. But again the same great ideas of
common fatherhood, of a common brother
hood of o social state in which no one shall
be overworked, and none shall want, begin to
quicken the common thought"
What nobler work can man engage in than
to help TO bring about social state where
"Each man finds his own in all mems good,
And all men work In noble brotherhood"
What better prayer can we offer TO heaven
than
''Lord make the nations see
That men should brothers be,
And form one family
The wide world o'er."
Opportunities of usefulness that an angel
might coyet press on us from every side. This
Christly work of taking men by the hand and
lifting them up is one we can all engage in.
You, merchant and manufacturer by doing
| justly 10 labor and laDOrerS can help bring
the worlds trade and traffic into harmony
with the golden rule of Christ. You can Join
hands with the few who are laboring to estab-
lish civilization based on equity and but
tressed by love. You can make the shop and
the store as sacred as the sanctuary. You can
make the whlrl of factory wheels sweeter mu-
| sic and grander worship than that that rises
rom Iull-voiced organ and white-robed choirs
| IN cathedrals grand. You can help usher in
the golden age that prophets have foretold
and poets have sung of, when Justice truth
and love shall be supernal and regnant every
| where violence shall no more be heard in
| thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy
| borders" Happy is the people that is in
such case, yea happy is the people whose
! God Is the Lord" ~
Where should the church of Christ be in
| this work of reform. She should lead the
van. She should take the initiative in all
| movements that tend to- lift humanity to
higher levels. Every battle of right against
| might should call forth, an the forces of the
| church militant. The church of the Carpen-
ter of Nazareth should be in sympathy with
| labor and laborers. am glad TO know that
here and there the church is moving in this
| direction. There is better day coming The
earth moves sunward. Let us, with head and
| heart and hand, help the cause of humanity
! forward. Let us recognize and fulfill the fra
| ternal responsibilities of citizenship. Provi-
dence hath so ordained and doth so decree
that whether we will or not, we are our broth
| er's keeper. No man liyeth to himself. If
| Christianity means anything, 1t means SYM
pathy with others, justice for others, selfsac-
rilce for others. It means that we who are
weak. 1t means, that in the spirit, and after
the example of Him whose name we bear, we
are to take our brother man by the hand and
| lift him up.