The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-28

ern wizard" are brethren of the same
| great family and subservient to one
great design. Thus we might proceed
in respect of every sphere of physical
In the infancy of the race-which is
measured sometimes by centuries and
sometimes by ages-it understands and
then speaks but as a child; and, as the
impressions and beliefs of childhood are
more difficult to overcome, it has hap
pened that the preJudices then formed by
individual or by race have been the most
difficult TO eradicate, and that progress
in this direction has been least obserV-
able Hence it is that the fiercest contro-
VERSES of history have been waged in the
name of religion. Today, however the
great religions of the world have be-
come the most interesting of modern
studies AS the scholars delve in buried
repositories of history and learn their
true character, they find that the points
Of similarity outnumber those of differ
ences. The recognition of divine source
and power, the duty of right living, &C
countablity for wrong. and the sphere OF
conscience are almost universal elements;
end although in those countries where
modern civilization most fourisheS sec
tarianism has separated those of differ
ent faiths almost as widely, to outward
appearances, as do Christianity and Is
lam their followers; yet for more than
a generation the spirit of religious lib
erty and intellectual charity has been
silently at work with a constantly unity
ing influence.
Upon this hallowed day it seem not
inappropriate that we should be guided
and inspired by the words Of the Mas
ter when he said, "a new command
ment give unto you, that We love one
another" respecting which st. Paul de-
clared, love is the fulfilling of the
law" gts srr.
1t happened one day that one of the
Pharisees, learned in the law, stood up
and tried him, saying, Master, what
shall | do to inherit eternal life?' and
he said unto him, What is written in the
law, how Nritest thou? And he, an
swering, said. Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with all
+ thy soul, and with all thy strength, and
with ell thy mind, and thy neighbor as
myself" But he, desiring to justify him
self, said and who is my neighbour"
He evidently regarded as his neighbor
only him whose dwelling house adjoined
his own. Thereupon the Master spoke
to him the parable of the good Samar-
| tan. And so. when he came to lay down
his new commandment. he made 1t un-
| ambiguous He sent it forth as an ar
| row is shot into the air-tirped and wing
| ed for longest fight. Nor was this in
I junction intended only for His disciples,
| for, in praying for His disciples he said,
f! Neither for these only do I pray, but
| for them also that shall believe in Me
| through their word. that they may all
be one Hence it includes all men,
| everywhere and always.
| Act as the Samaritan Did.
! therefore, II summons each or US, and
unerrngly describes our neighbor as ev-
| cry fellow being who needs anythin g
that we can grant him; and it bids US
fill his wants to that extent. and per-
| haps, it implies that we should take the
| Jericho road oftener than we do if there
by we may oftener meet our neighbor in
| such plight.
1t summons us not only to a wider APP
| plication in respect of the object of the
| commandment but to a much wider con-
struction of the subject. We are to love
this universal ''neighbqr'' in such man
ner and to such degree as to fulfill al
| the law. And therefore our love for him
is to embrace faith ard truth and every
grace and virtue. What these graces and
virtues are we find clearly declared by
the great apostle to the Gentiies, when ht