The record-union., 1897-05-31
War and PEACE DISCUSSED
Memorial Sermon by Rev. Mr.. Mel
Last Night.
Grand Army lien and Women Attend
St. PauI's Church in
Body.

Memorial Day services at st. .PauPs
Episcopal Church last evening called
out a very large congregation. The
members of the Grand Army Corps at
tended in a body, and with the Ladies
of the Grand Army and Of the two Re-
lief Corps occupied places of honor. The
church was appropriately decorated
with the national colors, and the red,
white and blue presented beautiful
background to the throng of worshipers
who had assembled.
The pastor, Rev. c. L. Mel, delivered
a powerful address on the subject or
the Universal Brotherhood of Man,
1t was Christ DR.. Mel said, who
first taught that all men were one III
the Lord-that all men were brothers.
Much. he said, has been said of the
universal brotherhood of man, but those
words are far from meaning absolute
equality. Some men are strong, ana
some are weak, but even though this
is so, it does not follow that there are
no ties OF brotherhood between them.
The very weakness of some human be-
ings bind them to the strength of 9TH
ers, and their weakness is often
strength. The weakness at the dawn
strong in virtue, innocence and truth.
The differences in men, Dr. Mel con-
tinued, merely emphasizes the fact that
they are brothers, but there is no such
thing as equality of brain and of
heart. Any attempt to level all men
to absolute equality is insanity; yet
this, instead of relaxing the bonds OF
human brotherhood, ought to make
Io,, c-+,. hap ic
pastor said, for lowly men to rise, ex-
cept as lofty men have arisen-by
brain power Things in the world are
as they are, and laws cannot change
them. If a change is made it must be
made by individuals themselves. 1t
is not probable that there ever will be
equality. and to the end of the world
men will be graded.
Every grade, or level, or rank in life,
Dr. Mel submitted, ought to work for
one another. Society should be great
relief corps, and this, because society
is a great unfit one part suffers, all
suffer; wrong done to one part of it
is a wrong done to every part, and a
right done to a part is right to all.
A man cannot be a Christian and not
care for his fellow-men. If he is a
Christian he becomes sympathetic, and
will not only reach down, but go down
TO those below him.
There is movement among the
working people, the pastor continued,
which must soon burst out. The de-
mands of the workingmen must be
needed. Society will soon be reformed.
He did not believe, he said, in the ef!i-
cheney of laws designed TO 1op off the
heads of those who had risen above
their fellow men, to bring them down
TO a common level. He had no use for
laws designed as lawn mowers. The
latter, he said, was very good to reg
ulate the rank of grass, but poor things
to regulate the growth of men. Legis-
lation, he said, may accomplish some
good, but the means by which work
ingmen must acquire place is by cult
ure. because a man is what his brain
makes him. He that would go up must
do so by developing himself. Brain
and character nearly always govern
rank. The growth Of men depends up
on the brain, and upon the culture Civ
en- to it.
The brotherhood of men, DR.. Mel
said, should not be confined to individ-
uals. but should be applied to nations
Craftsmanship no longer has a right 10
be selfish. In all affairs the public good
should come first, and private good
next. To-day, he said, nations look
after their own welfare and let others
take care of themselves. but the time
is coming when nations must study one
another's interests.
Brotherhood, the speaker continued,
made men carry the seeds of righteous
ness to other people, and this was not
only a duty and a sentiment, but
command from Jesus Christ 1t was
surprising TO him, the speaker said,
how many persons would hesitate when
the question of scattering the seeds of
righteousness arose, and inquire what