The age-herald., 1900-11-19
"BY FAITH THE WALLS
 OF JERICO FELL DOWN.

dream: "The parliament of man, the fed- eration of the word.'
 In the temple at Jerusalem a row of mar ble pillars called "the wall of partition fenced off the court of the gentles. On this wall was the inscription in Latin and Greek, No foreigner may go further on penalty of death" This hatred of foreign CTS is not confined to the Chinese; it Is characteristic of all nations and peoples who have fenced themselves in from the rest of the world by ignorance and selfish ness. It was characteristic even of the most enlightened nations of antiquity The moral ideals of Greece and Rome made it as much a duty to hate foreigners to love fellow citizens. Even Plato, the wisest of the ancient philosophers, congratulated the Athenians, that in their dealings with the Persians, They had shown pure and heartfelt hatred of the foreign nature" There are many countries to-day where the foreigner is still subjected to suspicion, hatred and persecution. There are many countries where hereditary caste and arbi- trary social distinctions, stand as impass- able barriers, separating man from his fellowman. The Christians are still men aced in Armenia, the Jews are persecuted in France and in Russia, and the Irish are still oppressed by enlightened England.
 ..tre separated States and sections in our own country have been almost eliminated and the high harbed-wir denomnational fences which
  into hostile camps rapidly disappear ing. Every great charity, every organized effort for the relief of human suffering and the uplifting of the race, demohshes whole sections of our sectarian fences. Only few weeks ago in Galveston a Roman Catholic priest, Jewish Rabbi and prot estant minister served together on the same committee to relieve the suffering of a stricken people. In the presence of that great calamity theological distinctions farrr fAr, nfAd all were united in one great faith, one great hope and one great charity.
 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down." It was not by the use of battering rams or dynamite but by the silent progress of the army of Joshua around the walls. By faith also the walls about the cities of the old world fell down, by faith the castles of the middle ages have disappeared, and by faith the barriers that have so long separated the nations of the earth have been eimln- ated. The greatest lesson in all history IS the lesson of faith Faith in man is the cor nerstone of all progress; credit is the basis of modern trade and the keynote of our entire commercial system. Faith in man. kind Is the basis of government, the foun- dation of democracy. Without faith there could be no orgdnza ton. no combinations of labor and capital, no trades unions and no trusts. Nowhere is this principle so con- spicuously demonstrated as In our own country Here the fences separating the Jew from the Gentle have almost disap- peared and the Irishman and the Anglo Saxon dwell together brethren. By faith arbitrary race and social distinctions are passing away, and in an atmosphere or fraternity and equal opportunity, each in- divdual stands cr falls by his own merit. In the public schools there are no educa- tional fences restricting the opportunities of knowledge and culture to the favored few. The doors of opportunity are open for all who through faith will enter. To meet with success in any vocation today, man must trust and be trusted. The men who get themselves and their friends into the most serious troubles in the business world, are the men who cannot be trusted; the school or college are the boys who cannot be trusted. Faith is the cornerstone of the school, of business, of government and of civilized society.
 "To tear down the fences' is the mission of cation, of science and of religion. It is the mission of democracy. Every ad- vance in true culture, every deed of hero- ism and of charity, every invention and every discovery in science, knocks out stone from some partition walls And as the walls of Jerco fell by faith, shall the social and industrial barriers that still im- pede the progress of the race soon disap- pear, and the glorious dream of universal brotherhood shall become a realization
 "Its coming yet for a'that,
 That man to man the world OCT,
 Shall brothers be for a'that'
 Faith in man is the great spiritual force the battering ram that is slowly but surely breaking down the walls of the ages and faith in the man Is the index of faith in God.