The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-19

their sorrows. mercy for their errors
and their sins. sharing with them their
misfol tunes, bearing for them lhelr
burdens. 1t involves helping the lame
the halt, and the blind, and enusaVor-
ing to redeem and recover HON thelr
wrong-doing the criminal. FrdIernai-
ism is cooperation, combination rel
lowship. uniting with ones tenoWs In
in philanthropy, IN lndus-
try. in order to promote the common
welfare. Fraternalism is the parable
of the Prodiga1 Son-for fraternallsm
is illustrated in that parable antlene-
tically by the spirit of the elder broth
er. Fraternalism is to do unto otners
as we would have others do unto us.
1t is to love ones neighbof as one
self. 1t is to give with simplicity, 10
rule with diligence, to show mercy
with cheerfulness, to be inspired with
a love that is without false pretense,
to be kindly affectionate one 10 an
other with brotherly love, IN nonor
referring one another. 1t is 10 De OF
the same mind, one toward another;
to mind not high things, but TO conde'
scend to men of low estate.
We may illustrate the spirit Oh ira.
ternalism by indicating both some oil
its tendencies and some contrary tend
encies, to be seen in our American
life. The spirit of fraternallsm IN the
Anglo-Saxon sees in the sunny cheer'
fitness of the negro. in the love OF u
beautiful in the Italian, in the patlence
of the Chinese, qualities to be re
spected, emulated, borrowed. Frate'
nalism in America looks across the
sea and shares the sufferings OF the
oppressed negro in the Congo and OF
the prosecuted Jew in Russia, ana II
shares sympathetically in the eager
ness, the anxieties, the hopes and the
fears of the Russian peasantry strug
Cling toward justice and liberty. L
looks aci oss the chasm which sepa
rates class from class, and under
stands. or seeks to understand, the
reasons which animate the working
man in his demand for better wages
and shorter hours, the tenement mouse
dweller in his demand for better con
ditions of life, the negro in his demand
for the open door of opportunity To-
himself and for his children. Frater
nalism organizes the social settlement
and lives in the neighborhOod and Will
the companionship of the poor that i
may understand their needs and he'll
them to a larger life. Fraternalisn
converts punishment from a proct
of revenge to a process of reform
turns the prison into a penltentlary
the county Jail into reform school
and makes the judge upon the bencl
the guardian of the unkempt, untrain
ed boys who are brought before him
Fraternalism joins the hand of labo
and of capital, of employer and EN-
ployed, in a cordial grasp, and make
them partners in a common benefit
Fraternalism in the church honors tn
spirit of faith and hope and love il
other churches. 1t is catholic in it
faith; it recognizes the truth that n
sect possesses all the piety of all tn
knowledge; and it honors the piet
and the knowledge in other sects.
The clergy of all denominations ca
render no higher service to the pres
ent age than to learn by study @
the New Testament what is the near
ing of fraternalism; to obtain by fe'
lowship with Christ the spirit of fra
! ternalism; and to teach to their cor
gregations the principles and to IL
spire in their congregations the spirf
expressed in the words of Christ, "a
We are brethren. The Spectator.