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mission TO help the needy, the SUI
fering, the wronged. without regard
to rank or station. While the days
Of the buckler and lance are gone,
the spirit Of chivalry still lives. in
a keen sense Of justice which fills
the breast Of the average man. In
all altruistic causes and enterprises.
in unselfsh and serving institutions
which adorn our cities.
That the strong should bear the
inirmities of the weak Is the revo-
lutiOnary Christian solution for the
inequalities of the world. Men may
be born with equal and unalienable
rights. but they do not have equal
ity of capacity or of opportunity.
II the worlds wealth should be d.
vided equally among all men. as
some seem to desire, before the
night fell some would be richer,
others would be poorer. all due TO
differences of ability in handling
money. Think of the wide differ
ences between men in intellectual
capacity. The twin Of a genius may
be a Ounce. There are the differ
ences made by fortune and chance.
A british officer, of whom I heard,
was ordered from service in India
to the western front. and after
journey Of several weeks from India
to his new post was shot down in
the first 80 minutes. other men
went through years Of the thickest
fighting Of the war without a
scratch. So is life a great battle
which spares some. while it breaks
and scars others. and their
| lives are forever changed in
opportunity by the turn Of
one days action. Fortune and mis-
fortune thus make for inequalities.
How solve them? How offset them?
Paganism and science say, sacrifice
the weak TO me strong. Christianity
saws, Let the strong build OF their
strength into the lives of the weak
that all may be strong together"
The idea of the world may be the
survival OF the fittest, the motive
Of Christianity is the revival Of the
unfit through the power Of friendly
help and spiritual Including.
Teaches Cooperation.
THE second passage OF the scrip
ture of the morning teaches cooper
alton. Cooperation is coming TO be
/ the binding lie, the successful policy
\ in home life, in educational methods,
\ in industrial organization, in re-
/ Iigious appeal. The club, the lodge.
the church. all accept theoretically
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succeed only as this philosophy Is
worked out into actual practice.
Adopting cooperation as its strategy
Of war. any organization, such as
club. a lodge o. a church, may be-
come a veritable knight-errant, in
teresting itself in various causes
which aim for the social good. 1t
Is not sufficient for members as IN
| dividuals TO have a love for little
\ children. The cause OF the child
must be taken up in a cooperative
way. The knightly institution be-
! comes interested in the health OF the
/ child, his recreation. his mental and
moral training It is not enough for
scattering individuals to live accord
ing to the principles OF health: they
must band themselves togethe IN an
organization which champions the
public health against all those who
/ through ignorance, carelessness and
Indifference tend to destroy It. 1t Is
not enough for individuals. as In
dividuals. to live vtrtuous lives in the
midst OF a wicked world; they must
learn 20 register their convictions
through cooperative movements that
insist on the enactment and enforce
ment OF Statutory laws for the public
good.
Much OF The howl about corrupt
moral and political conditions would
be unnecessary II all right thinking
people could learn 70 cooperate
without regard TO distinctions of
class color. creed or political doc
trine. upon the fundamental issues
in which all hold faith. The Jewish
people had saying that Il the law
were ever kept perfectly by all the
people for one day then the kingdom
OF God would come. We may say
that Il all the people would live for
one day according 20 the principles
OF cooperative brotherhood that that
would be the kingdom OF God"