Middletown transcript., 1910-06-11
THE GOLDEN RULE
Love and Brotherhood Among
Mankind

LON6 anu DFUt0GEHOOu AIIlOng
Mankind
Rev. EDWIN W. sCAswELL, D. D.
We copy tie following interesting ar.
ticIe from Tie New York Observer of May
26th. This publication has a circulation
of 250, 900 copies, and about one million
readers
The dawn of another Decoration Day is
near. The whole nation turns its thought
upon the sleeping heroes and the few re-
manning veterans OF the greatCiy;l conflict
Flowers will again cover the forms Of
thoee whose memory We love, and orators
will recount their deeds of daring.
The soldiers of the Blue and Gray are
now one-those who have gone before and
those who are on the way to their eternal
discharge. The old issues are buried for
ever, while the North and the South, the
East and the West, are united into a
powerful republic.
There is one paramont issue to-day alb
sorbing the attention of all Americans,
which is the promotion of peace among
all the governments of the earth. No
country is better able to inaugurate the
arbitration movement than the United
States, We are so far separated from the
nations of the earth by wide seas that we
can advocate peace without fear of offend
ing the Powers. No nation can overthrow
Us at this long range. Placed in this
strategical position by divine Providence,
we can, better than any other, lead the
forty-five nations of the globe in this up
ward march.
Again, We are nation made up of all
nations, and, therefore, have feeling of
brotherhood for all, closer than a people
who are all Chinese, or japanese, German
or Spanish. We are the whole race in
miniature. "The Parliament of fMan and
the Federation of the World" is in reality
fulfilled in the United States.
1t is said that Senator Root, during his
term as Secretary of State, completed
twenty-four treaties of arbitration with
different countries. One luadred years
years ago there were no such treaties with
any country. To-day there are some two
hundred such arbitration agreements
among the nations of the world. Truly
the Golden Rule of love and brotherhood
is prevailing among mankind. Mr.. Spur
geon once noticed tramp on the front
seat of his church. The third Sunday
be went and spoke to him. The man
said. l am greatly changed under your
preaching. When I first came here,
hated both God and the devil. Now l |
love them BOTH" This spirit of love is
being manifested in the place of ancient
hatred.
It is said that there are more than one
hundred and fifty international societies
organized to promote missions, education,
health, business and reform, as we'll as
arbitration. If interdenominationaI So
cieties have drawn all Christendom
nearer together, making them one in
aim and action, there is also surely COM
ing national unity.
In the great eathedrals of Europe they
sing in English, German, French and
Spanish, but, high up in the dome and
far out in the audience, the music is all
One, expressing one thought in the lang
lage of the soul. At Babel the people of
The world we're dispersed because of many
languages. Now millions are being united
in the one language of the Christ, "Peace
On earth and goodwill to men
The grandest words of our greatest cap
tain, whose mausoleum overlooks the
Hudson, were, "Let US have peace
Abraham Lincoln, that paragon of patriots,
in his very look and action spoke 'tPeace"
louder than words.
Theodore Roosevelt, the mightiest of
The mightiest for righteousness among
men, held the hands of Russia and Japan
while he spoke to the fierce pillows of
war, 'Peace, be estill. " Andrew Carnegie's
'wo millions of money, in promoting the
principle of peace at The Hague, as well
IS in his words and life, has thrilled all
men with nobler desire for the dawning OF
he millennium of peace. DR.. A. K.
Smiley has made the mountains of the
Hudson speak forth peace to world.
Washington, the warrior of the Revo-
ution, once exclaimed, "My first wish is
% see this plague to mankind Danish from
he EARTH" Benjamin Franklin makes the |
risiting angel from heaven shocked at the
light of war. The angel says:
"Blockhead, you undertook to conduct {
ne to the earth and you have brought
ne into hell" lC
'No, SIR" is the reply; 'this is the
'arth and these are men. Devils never c
reat one another in this cruel manner.
They have more sense and more what \
men vainly call humanity" Franklin i
dds, "When will nations learn to settle
heir disputes without cutting one an
,ther's throats?" i
The sentiment, "My spear knows no {
is giving way to the grander
eminent, "My brother shall know no
pear" The prophets of olden time saw I
bis day of peace coming when they said, i
egarding the very beasts, ''The wolf and q
he lamb shall dwell together; the leopard '
ball lie down with the kid and a little 8
hid shall lead them" t