The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-26

of life. The birds and the beasts give them,
selves up to their young. The bear VIII fShl
for her cub. The lioness will die for mel
whelp. We call this instinct. but there Is
certainly in 1t some faint foreshadowinE OF
a sacrifcial cross. some inarticulate utter
ance OF a divine principle. some
prophecy of a coming glory.
"As We ascend the scale of life the young
are born more and more helpless. and. as
Mr.. Fiske first pointed out. the duration of
human infancy IL the longest Of all. And
here IS where we find. more beautifully than
anywhere else, life shouldering the burden
of other life. a strong man toiling ard
strong mother willing to let her strength
fade away and her nerves be coiled up into
Jumps of agony in the outpouring of herself
upon the weakness and want of another.
There are pictures of 1t, there are poems
about it. there are dramas through which
it moves in a pain of scalding tears. and a
or literature can bring It so close to our
souls as the vision of the thing itself. in
novels as well as In palaces. in criminals
the substance Of humanity we find this little
bit of God woven in II. and no life can be
totally denraved that cheerfully suffers for
The good suffer for the bad. Wherever
you turn your eyes in this world you find
a few people trying to help a great many.
path of lifting Ut their fellow-men and set
ting their feet on the paths Of salvation.
These are the salt of the earth and the
AASihl Va liz
THE woman who IS as chaste as a dew
drop reaches down into the mud for her
soiled and bedraggled sister. The clean man.
the call of the. heavenly fatherhood and
the human brotherhood. labors for the res
cue of the drunkard and %outcast, and parts
misery about him..
There are heaps OF s%elishness in the
world. and grinding .materialisms. cold
ness. hard.hearted persecution. but in the
midst OF them all are bands OF noble men
and women. devoted to the holy work of
The bridge that spans the gulf between
the good and bad Is sympathy. and the
motive power Is love.
Its object. and that love may work out Its
regeneration. two things are necessary. You
must, In a certain sense. make yourself one
with the man whom you want to help. II
your voice comes from an altogether alien
world. 1t will not reach him. and there will
be no response. This does not mean that a
thief can be saved only by another thief.
but that a thief can be saved only by a
man who feels in his own soul what an
awful thing 1t is to be n thief. There must
be a highway. between soul and soul. over
which our help may be carried. and this
highway Is found. not in a communion of
sin and sin, but in a union on the ground
Of our common humanity. a union of broth
erhood between the brother who does right
and the brother who does wrong.
You must put yourself In another mans
him. but when you have found him you
must be stronger n better than he Is or
you will never be able to lift him. You
must stand beside him and stand above
him.. You must get close to him N order to
touch him. but your touch will not help
And now we come to Jesus Christ. II
him. In all f~ullness and power, was this
identity and this superiority. The two neces-
stiles of S~aviorhood We're his. In his real
manhood he was able to enter through ev-
cry door of human life. and in his real
sonship with God. his absolute appropria-
ton OF the spirit of God. he was good
enough and strong enough. strong enough
because he was good enough. to grapple the
whole world by it's foundation ana draw
It out of darkness into light"