The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08

how they may apply them to solve their great
/ problems.
There is one lesson that can be drawn from
the ife words and works of this outstanding
| figure of all time, and it is one that the world
needs more than it needs anything else This
| is the lesson of His largeness of heart His all
enfolding love, His boundless charity.
The world today is plunged into a chaos Of
hates fears suspicious and prejudices; and out OF
that poisoned chaos arise the wars and the
social and industrial clashes that fill the worlc
with misery-every one of them. And this is
Christendom that speak of; the Christendom
that processes Christ but fails to follow Him in
so far it fails to love-
There are men hating other men because
they live across international boundary lines
There are hating other men because they
are rich. There are men hating other men be-
cause they of different race or color There
are Christians hating other Chris
tans because their creed is different. What a
travesty upon the name of Him whose central
message was love, and who taught mankind that
it could find peace only in unity with God, and
unity with God only in the unity of human
brotherhood!
One of His commands to His followers was
to "cast out DEVILS" The foulest devil that in
tests human life is the devil of prejudice, of
Glass; racial or religious division, of intolerance.
That devil is not only the father of lies, but of
hate and strife, of and prosecutions and
social and class conflicts.s
If on given day. in the spirit of Him who
died that men might find life, all mankind would
attack this devil with the almighty weapons of
the Spirit which He has provided, what world
this could be made! In day, a hell could be
turned into a heaven. No man, processing
Christ, would then cruelty Him anew by sus-
pecting and hating his brother of another
tion race or creed. And that is what many men,
processing what they deny in practice, do
ing today.
St. John, ''the beloved disciple" came nearer
to the very heart of the Spirit of Christ than
any other. Next to Jesus himself st. John rose
to the sublmest heights of nobility, power and
beauty of thought that any man ever achieved.
And St. John probed the mystery of life deep
est, and revealed most clearly the law of life
in which alone mankind find enduring peace
and happiness, when he said:
Beloved, let us love one another for
love is of God: and every that loveth is
born Of God, and knoweth God.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for
God is love-
Words of greater power-thoughts of NIGH
tier moment to mankind-never were uttered
by any other man that ever lived, except one.
In the human law of suspicion and fear and
hate and intolerance, mankind is finding only
misery. 1t is poison to those who follow it,
affliction to those who it's victims.
In the divine law Of charity and tolerance
and love which st. John revealed in these mighty
words, is the way of peace and happiness and
well-being; and in that way, and in other way
that ever will be found, mankind find relief
from the plaques of discord that make it miser-
able when it might be happy, mpotent against
evil when it might be all-powerful over evil.