The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18

the personal, that, on the contrary, personality is fulfilled in social rela- tions. We may think of the fate and fortunes of a piece of building stone that came from West Rock into this building Before it was quarried, it was but part of the mass of rock. in dlstinguishable from the rest. It was only the purpose of building that open ed before it any individuality. Taken from the quarry it was merely one block among many with nothing to dis tinguish it. It was only as it was hewn, dressed, carved, and then built into the structure in it's own peculiar place, in plinth or capital, in arch or finail, that. as it were, coming to itself, gaining it's distinctive marks and real izing its character and design and ideal,
 "The conscious stone of beauty grew"
 How much more true is all this of that which is not a dead piece of rock but really a living stone, endowed with spiritual life! It is as the man is first fitted, and then called to take his place in the social fabric that he finds himself. His relations to others are 50 many opening doors through which he enters more and more into the meaning and realization of his own personal life, i Society advances, net at the expense of personality, but rather as the persons composing it advance in the enrich ment of their natures by reason of the increasing variety of the relations they sustain. The genuine development of society involves the development of of personality The man becomes more of fellows are multiplied and as his facul- ties are called out and developed in ser vice to society.
 The social order of Christianity thus, while it is based upon, expresses and develops, personality. The apostles language in the text is very personal:
 'In whom in Him, that is, who into His divine personality had taken hu-
 man nature. That personal lord is the corner stone of the social fabric. And there is explicit recognition of the per- sonal material of it's construction fin whom ye also are builded together" "Ye also" the gentiles, the heather who had been without the pale, strang- CTS and foreigners. Nay, not only to outsiders but to outcasts, the disreput- able, the despised, the downtrodden, to | them also comes that bidding ''ye also" Farther and farther yet widens out the purpose. Wherever humanity Is there the gospel is to go, Ito the whole crea- tion." The church's catholic mission to "all the nations" involves recognition of the value of personality, whereso- ever found and amid whatsoever cir cumsbances, personality in men of every condition, class, nation and tongue, race and color. To them that are far off is to come the call to fellow citizenship in the commonwealth of man, the republic of God. Tn recognition of human per- sonality, partltionwalls crumble, lines of separation disappeal The divine design for the lowest and least promis- ing is that they also are to be builded together into the social structure slow ly through the ages rising, that temple of regenerated humanity.
 'Nlte'S AlOW 10 IllV ppWCl IOI lulS lT6- mendous social reconstruction and re- generation? The power in this vast process of building together these null titudes into a temple of God is person. al, that is to say, it is spiritual. They ''are builded together for habitation of God in the spirit" This is the in- strumentality of the building together Tn the spirit of the Son of Man is to be found for humanity that common conscience that has been sought. The social unity of mankind must be a unity "in the spirit" And the power of social reconstruction is spiritual. Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit saith the Lord. It is not by outward agencies however mighty Outward and physical conditions are to be ignored The Lord fed the thou sands. Great multitudes followed Him and He healed them all" But His so- cial power is 'In the spirit" It is per s4