St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-18
THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN
THE PARTICULAR BRANCH OF
-. THE GENERAL SUBJECT UN-
DER CONSIDERATION.
TO the Plane OF Life Where uo
Enters Upon the Struggle for
Life for Others.

| S vi al S4i yCoISIUdy AFTERNOON. Ile
general subject is From Chaos to
| cosmos, or the Solar System and
| Sociology" the sermon Yesterday
treating particularly of '"The Broth
erhood of Man" Special music was
| furnished by the Apollo male quar-
tette and A. D. S. Johnston. There
was large audience in attendance.
Rev. Moore's text was: Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind, and with
all thy heart, and thy neighbor as
thyself. '-MattheW xxi, 81. He said:
AS the earth is called out from
chaos by the law of molecular at
traction before it can exert planetary
force, so we learned last Sunday that
man must be individuated, or
brought to a consciousness of self
hood, before he can enter upon the
ministry of brotherhood. By the law
OF self-love man gathers strength
for the duties of brotherly love: and
out from the experiences of the strug-
gle for personal existence there
springs conviction of the truth pro-
claimed by Jesus, that in the deveI-
opment Of the race the second step
brings a man to the plane of life
where he enters upon the struggle
for the life of others. The brother
mood OF man has become a rhetor-
1cal expression upon the lips of many;
but it is something more than a
rh QtQriHG1 aE-nTnsc5n1,
law of life which has very practical
workings in the world of commerce.
Sir Edwin Arnold has said that
the whole world is contributory to the
comfort of each Individual The cloth
that covers his dinner table has been
made from hemp gathered in Russia
or from cotton pick in Carolina.
His beef is fattened on Western plains.
and spices are grown for him in East
ern islands. The wheat fields of Amer
lea supply him with bread, and if he
will eat fruit, the orchards of Tas-
mania and the palm woods of the
West indies proffer delicious gifts;
while the orange groves of Florida
and of the Hesperides provide him
with those golden apples which in
ancient legend dragons used to guard.
His coffee comes from where jeweIed
humming birds flutter in the bowers
of Brazil, or purple butterflies fit amid
the flowers of Java. Great ships rae
ing from China or Assam, from For
mosa or the green Singhalese hills,
bring cargoeS of tea, and the sugar
|, to sweeten it may have been crushed
|! from the canes that waved by the
Orinoco, while spoons to stir it may
have been made from silver dug from
Nevada mines. Rice from RangCon
and raisins from California; cocoa
plucked beneath the burning equator,
and caviare from the frozen arctic; all
these bear Witn5 IS to the inter-relation-
ship of man in the world of physical
life. Modern astronomy teaches us that
each planet influences every other
planet in the solar system, and the
attractive force is operati tive through
trillions of miles of space; so in our
social system it is true that If Afghan
istan has a fever London burns; if
Denver has chill, Paris shivers. A
vast network of influences makes a
man dependent upon all other men in
the world, and we are rapidly awaken
ing to the Importance of preserving
peace in order that prosperity may
abound; of establishing brotherhood
in order that selfhood may be Sc
cured.
''The world of thought is filled with
illustrations of the same truth, and
science, philosophy and art are all
seeking to hasten the unity of the
race. In science it has been found
that underlying all the diversities Of
the strength of brotherhood. In the.
calculations of astronomers the move
nents of the planet Uranus were found
to be in correspondence with the
planet Neptune. 1t has been discov-
cred that light is produced by the union
of many molecules surging together at
tremendous pace; electricity is the re-
suit of the union of molecules at a
stated rate of movement; sound and
heat are products of the union of
forces. So Beethoven applied the law
of brotherhood to the simple elements
of sound, and in symphonic chorus
they sang the refrain that tells of the
beauty of brotherly love; and if
man longs for peace and harmony
he has only to associate himself with
other men of like mind, and instead
of savagery and brutality, civilization
and beauty begin to reign. PhiloSo-
ply has taught us that no mind can
produce thought unless there is r3la-
tionship with other minds. Homer's
songs were only a poetic expression of
what all Greece had thought; and
Hegel, in thinking out his great sys-
tenn of philosophy, was indebted to the
minds of men who had preceded him in
attempts to solve the problems with
which he wrestled. The same law
holds good in the world of religion.
Just as the need for food prompts
men to the exchange of products.
and as the need for knowledge urges
men to the exchange of thought, and
as the need for stability in the march
Of worlds calls for the exercise OF the
law of planetary attraction, so in the
DEVELOPMENT of the souls best life there
is found a need for sympathy and
mutual trust. When children are
playing in the park and novel sight
appears, the larger children go run
ming off, leaving the younger and
weaker, who follow crying aloud for the
older ones to wait. 1t is but a type OF
a social struggle in which the law of
brotherhood does not obtain. But
when an older child returns TO AID the
younger to secure the pleasure sought,
we applaud the evidence of true manl1-
ness that prompts the brotherly deed.
Such manliness is an expression of
goodness, or, in religious term, 1t Is
an act of righteousness; the right
doing that demands respect.
1.-The world has witnessed many lives
that have been filled with this spirit
of true service. So Jonathan aided
David, and Savonarola gave himself
to Florence. By the same law dark
lands were lighted by the love of a
Livingstone, a Judson, or Xavier.
Gen. Booth belongs to the same class,
and by the workings of the law of
brotherly love in such great hearts
a ministry of mercy has been extended
to many suffering souls. One day
Tolstoi passed a beggar on the street.
Stretching out gaunt hands, the miser-
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