The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-20

poWer' II III was necessary lOr the
| first Christian Brotherhood of all, who
gathered about the steps of the Young
| Man OF Nazareth to beled aside OCCASION
ally to readjust itself to these prin-
ciples, 1t certainly is necessary to-day
| considering the world we have to live
| and work in; the currents into which
we are cast; the friction and strain
| we have to bear. Now chief among
| these principles, and in a manner in
! Volving all the rest as the great tap
root of our religious life and the basic
principles of this Brotherhood, Is the
one set before us in the words we have
chosen for the text"
The speaker then said that what any
of us made of our life depended on the
plan upon which we laid it out. These
plans We're outlined for us in
the text. The plan of self
centered life, which was thorough
ly pagan, and which is en-
couraged by certain schemes of philos-
ophy and education in our day, which
teach that it is mans duty to take
care of himself and keep whole skin
under all circumstances. Then of the.
opposite plan presented in the teach
ing and example of Jesus Christ, whose
aim is the service of our fellow men.
After charging on these plans he
went on to say:
MY brethren of st. Andrew, l have
hammered upon this principle because
it seems to me 1t gives us our
| soundings clear to the bottom, 1t
tests, as nothing else can, the
depth of the well we are drawing
from. If this brotherhood is commit
ted to anything it is committed to that
principle. If 1t is anything it is at
once q protest against the sordid and
self-centered life of a materialistic age,
and at the same time witness to the
principle and the joy of life of disin-
terested service. To impress that prin-
ciple upon the world by our example
is the best service we can ever do 1t.
In an age when so much is said about
new gospels, new principles, new pana-
ceas, we have got to convince men that
| what the world wants to-day to solve
its problem and remedy its evils,
is just a fuller exercise of this
fundamental Christian principle on
the part of those who progress it. And
in an age. when the word Brotherhood
is on everybody's lips we have got to
show men that every kind of brother
hood is but a fiction and a delusion,
which is not built upon the principle
of self effacement How strikingly this
was shown by that act of heroism by a
young man and his mates a few weeks
ago at the mouth of Santiago harbor!
How quickly two nations, who seemed
as wide apart as they possibly could
be, clasped hands across the dividing
gulf and revealed their brother
hood by their appreciation of
that splendid deed of self -effacement.
What lesson such perfect self-sur-
render to a cause Is to us in the work
in which we are engaged, and how we'll
it proved the truth of the principle,
HE that loseth his life shall find it,"
1t had begun to be feared that our
young men were becoming insensible to
this principle under the benumbing eff
fleet of systems of philosophy and edu-
cation which have taught that mans
first duty is to take care of himself and
keep whole skin, as well as under the
weight of those commercial influences
which inspired the poets lines in day
like ours:
It'll fans the land to Fastening ills a
prey.
I Where wrath accumulates and men de-
cay"
We have to thank this war that II
has reversed these fears, and shown us
THAT our young men have not lost the
capacity for heroic service and can still
respond to the principle of self-efface-
ment from the admiral down to the
stoker. 1T augurs we'll for the success
of this Brotherhood, for these are the
very planes on which 1t presses its APP
peals to young mems hearts. Only We
have got to convince them that there is
a place for true heroism in q service fol-
our fellow men, where the chances OF
sudden death are not cast into the SCALE
that life may be lost without the ply.
steal act of dying, wanting moth
ing but the element Of picturesque
ness, and that there Is a higher
love even than the love of country
/. e., the love Of the Kingdom of Gods
love without which the love of country
would not long survive; for depend up
on 1t, you will look in vain for true pa
| triotism on an acre of ground on thu
| LdtG VI tlllS SlOpS, NhCie Iicu hiiON
!. nothing of the motive, 'for my SAKE
and the gospel
Our great concern, then, my brothers
of st. Andrew, is not how fast ou
ranks are filling, but how far this prin
ciple of which have been speaking tt
you to-day is taking root in our owl
| lives. And when it does, the kingdom
of God will come by many or by few
And you shall be like magnets let dowf
among lost particles of steel, drawing
and graphing to yourselves the hungry
souls of men; at the same time flingns
out this challenge to the world from tn
masthead where your principles ar,
nailed: q
Now let the poor, short-seeing mob O
men
Laugh on and have the echo for thei
cheer;
But we will live our lives for future
days;
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