Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1918-06-01

point. the best that can be said about
war is that IL is an injury 10 man ana
that ii is hateful TO God. Yet the facl
OF history stands out very clearly that
when God could accomplish His great,
worldwide plan in no other way, he
turned that plan over TO the drawn
sword Of man, that His purpose might
be fulfilled in the world.
At the very outset Of my brief mes
sage, then, let me say that / am OF the
firm conviction that we have here
worldwide purpose directed by Al
mighty God, and the great purpose OF
this great war Is the establishment OF
the brotherhood Of man throughout Inc
earth ~,
! want 10 take you for little while
tonight upon an historical excursion
want YOU to so back with me IN mem
ory. II you will-along the long alsles
OF history, and 70 stop here ana there
and yon, taking our place Oh the NIX
tops OF time and viewing the gred
= struggles which have marked and when
have marred this world in the ages
past.
do not know just how far TO take
YOU back; may be only back so lar as
those civilizations which TO-DAY we can
ancient When we gaze upon tnem, eA'
anime thtlf s.9s. study them in the light.
~ history and Of social relations, we
are constrained 10 say that while these
early civilizations were highly devel-
oned and in some respects very noble,
there was bs.ween the ruling classes
and the toiling masses a great, wide,
deep. impossible gulf. Egypt, for eX-
ample. We are told, surpassed, in some
respects. in arts and science, the mod
ern world Of today. The same may be
arid o. the great empire Of Babylon;
hut when we have ssid that, we must
likewise say that between those VINO
ruled and those who were ruled there
was this great impossible gulf. the
motherhood Of man was a subject that
&ss practically unknown in Egypt ana
likewise in Babylon.
Come now, II you will, TO the civiliza-
ton as II was established and exem-
rli1eG by the Hebrew people. what
was the great revelation, or the FIRST
revelation, ! might say. that God made
10 the Hebrew people? II was the
Fatherhood Of God but with the Faith
erhood OF God you have wrapped up
that correlated subject, the brother
hood OF man. You cannot separate
them. You cannot think Of a father
hood without a brotherhood. They
stand or they fall together in this holy
scripture: and the fact IS that the great
truth that God committed TO the He
brew people as guardians was the truth
OF the brotherhood Of man.
Turn back. II you will 10 the Old
Testament scripture Read over again
those laws which were prescribed by
God and given TO Israel for the direc-
tion Of A civilization, and you viii not
read very far until you are impressed
with the thought that here the indi-
vidIal is magnined. The solitary per-
son was protected The incividual
tights Of men in their individual rela-
tions one 10 tbs ether were always
Tsenife6. that was the great commits
sion thst God save to Israel, that they
might farsye- stand Us guardians over
IN. great truth Of the brotherhood OF
man. -. .,
,lNgsarslh. It Is a remarkable tnlns' OF
deepest interest TO you and me- thst ne
was born in the lowliest station OF ne.
He came from a carpenters nome. he
-ame as a workingmans son, on the
human side: and when He stepped OUT
into that divine mission In the name
,oc God what are the great truths that
Ne taught7 The brotherhood OF man
aud the individuals relationship 10 ms
God-that fact that there was someone
something. higher than the church or
even fine state, that man owed ale
glance to. ..,,
II was Jesus who told the parable
~ the prodigal son. with al It's aeep
enonbasis OF Individual freedom and re-
enonsibility that are brought out 20
raj hov's life. Il was Jesus who tod
tbe narable OF the lost sheep ana the
sbenberd going out over the mountains,
searching for 10 until he found u ahu
h-ori1ht Il back home again. II was
Iesns who said to the rich youns ruler
IN the way. GO and sell all that thou
hast and give TO the poor yes an
tbis was the brotherhood Of man, as
a. was emphasized in the life and inc
sueserinr' and the death Of Jesus Christ
can saw tonight with deepest reNer-
erca that Jesus OF Nazareth died on
Coiootha's cross, because OF the en-
nbasis which He laid upon the truth
- the Brotherhood OF man and the IN
6ivid,,aI responsibility and the equahty
~ the human race, after Rome mao
Soiled in her mission, God committed
Wis sword 10 the Saxons, VINO, ue-
scendinr from the north into Ehs!auu
were the forefathers Of our ancestors
These were they who wrested from llS
rrlinq classes the magma charter aIu
,,,ho transformed the idea or tne IL
vine right Of kings into the luea "a
tbe divine right Of man. BENG oehlee
-oIioions liberty in the Motherlaho
tbeS, canoe 10 this new world, tnat tney
might enjoy that liberty when is .n VI,
inaIienable right Of every human SOU y,
And now let me remind you ina. y
was not the purpose OF our reVoIu t1li,
arv fathers at frst TO cut loose 4.ou ~,
tbe Notherland. In the days OF INA
Continental congress in rs. 1t was spe'
cifcallv written in that memoraDle uoo.
,,roent that IL was not the purpose o.
tbe congress 10 dissolve the happy re
lationship which had existed so I'm
betveen the colonists and the llotlle e,
country. England. But England va
not wise in her day and generatloil
SHAH we not rather say that Ehslah'
was dumb TO the plan ana the pun
rose NJ God? For whiel our laliieli
IN The colonists in the olden DAYS ma IA
m nurpose OF cutting loose from u,
mother country, God Almighty na'
srcb nurnose. God was directing GU
Sorefaihers God was starting them gu
into new land and new goVeIhi n,,.,
IN which there would ne lslo az ous,
the foundation stones OF the equa ..o,
and the brotherhood OF men: mus sO'
eel the separation Of the colonies l'on
The Motherland. -,