The record-union., 1899-12-03

God. Joseph realized this when in the
| crucial hour of temptation he repealed
the tempter, saying: How can 1 do
this great wickedness and sin against
God?" 1t was the thought of God that
kept him from the great transgressioG.
No mans life is safe and strong until
| it is anchored in God.
The old mystics had much to say con-
corning how to live with God. Modern
socialism has much to say concerning
how to live with man. The Bible from
first to last has much to say concern
ing how to live with God and with
man. The laws of Moses emphasize
mans duty to man as well as mans
duty to God. If the first table of the
ten commandments teach man his re-
| lation to God, the second table teaches
him This relation to man. The humanity
of those old Mosaic laws is as marked
as their divinity Eye shall keep my
Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary;
l. am the Lord That is one side.
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor
nor hate thy brother in thy heart. /
am the Lord That is the other side.
4. Jesus was a teacheryof- religion. When
he was asked what was first AMI funda-
the. Old Testament counsels. He took
two sentences, one from. the book of
DeuterOnomy and the other from the
book of Leyiticus, and linked them to-
gether as a statement of what consti-
tuted the essence of religion. He sum-
married. religion in two phrases, one
looking. Godward and the other look
ing MAYNARD Thou shalt love the
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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
SELF And He added: There is none
other commandment greater than
these" Religion is piety and it is
philanthropy. 1t is man in right rela-
ton with his Maker, and man in right
relation with his nelghbor. 1t is love 20
God manifested in worship and obedi-
ence. It is love to man manifested in
Justice and kindness. 1t is t1lial rela-
tionship toward God and fraternal rela-
tionship toward man.
These two elements, piety and phil
anthropy, filialism and fraternalism,
the divine and the humane God has
linked together and what He has ioired
together let no man put asunder. Be
lief in the human brotherhood is part
of religion as much as belief in the di-
vine fatherhood. Our religion is re-
vealed as much by our attitude toward
man as by. our attitude toward God.
He judged the cause of the poor and
needy then it was WELL Was not this
to know Me, saith the Lord And
again we read: He that loveth not his
brother whom he hath seen, how can
he love God whom he hath not seem
The more humane our life is, the more
divine it is. He works with God who
works for man.
But let us never forget that to fulfill
ethe humane side of religion, we must
nurture the divine side. To do justly
and show mercy to man. we must walk
humbly with God. Nearer my God,
to Thee is the primary need and
should be the fervent prayer of every
one of us. The nearer we walk with
our Father in heaven, the tenderer will
we deal with our brother on earth He
will hold the brotherhood of man most
faithfully, who holds the Fatherhood of
God most fervently. The prophet
Malachi taught this with wondrous
clearness and power when he said,
..Have we not all one Father. hath not
one God created us? Why do we deal
treacherously every man against his
brother, profaning the covenant of our
fathers The people that 'profaned
the holiness of the Lord" that robbed
Cod by Withholding the tithes of Of
ferings of worship, were the people that
oppressed the hireling in his wages,