New Britain herald., 1926-10-25

eration of children to do the same thing?' She said, They are teach ing their children to be ready to die for their country and be pa triotic!
 AS leg as we have that sort of talk there is no hope for the world Jesus held tAe only basis of social relationship that will work. Hate won't work; it never did work. AS long as men blind themselves to facts by giving things holy names and then lowing down to the thing and worshiping it, there is no hope.
 Tt is so easy to infame the pas sions of race prejudice and bigotry. You remember what that black man, Booker T. Washington, says: I will allow no man to so degrade me as to make me hate any other man.
 I've talked about red -blooded, two-fsted, 100 per cent Americans after the war until it made us sick. They tell about one town where there was a Jew and someone put up d S45At dIl4 4pO ptI Cclll AlIItll- can. I hate Jews and Catholics. The Jew put up sign. T am 200 per cent American; hate everybody It Is so easy, friends. to take up popular words: 'Dago' and 'Sheeny.'
 Never during this last war did I allow the word Hun to pass my lips. I would not call Gods people Huns even though they had been misled by rulers were were wrong. One Of these Huns said to me, They can take all my property rath- CT than have one mans life lost in it's defense It sounds quite like a savage, doesn't it? Every morning he leaves his home with his whole family to go down among the poor in Halsted street and teach the lit tie youngsters there. He has about 500 names on his Christmas list. visited him not long ago, and we got in his beautiful car and drove 1t right up to the side of a shack that you would not keep chickens in, and he said, That is where l was born
 Hate cannot last forever. For a while a man may indulge in hate. We know that wars must end and that q truce must be signed. Of all stupid fights the wickedest, most stupid is a religious fight. Ortho- doxy without brotherliness and re- ligion without love are the cruelest things that ever came into Gods world.
 "Hate Is usually born of fear. The way to make a man start to hate is to frighten him first. and when you have frightened him you have made him hate. You and l may dis like institutions; we may hate in stitutions, but We cannot hate folks and be Christians. We could not hate Germans as men; you might hate the thing for which the nation stood, but you cannot hate individ- uals. You might regret the fact that the individual is linked up with hateful thing, but you cannot hate him as a person.
 eve have learned how to do everything except the most import ant thing of all, and that is how to live together. And we know how to do that; Jesus told us how, but we are afraid to do it.
 NOW l want to tell you some thing else. l said that the logical outcome of hate is hell. Put over against that that the logical out come of love is heaven. Hate will never work with anybody; it won't work with you; it won't work with me. People cannot hate us into any thing, and they cannot scare US nor bluff us nor flim-flam us nor bull doze us; we stand all the firmer; but you can whip anyone of us with love. For instance, suppose you are mean to me; I keep sweet and kind to you. You keep on being mean; I get you q job at an increase of S5,0O0 a year. You are still mean; get you a job at S10,0OU a year. How long can you keep up your mean ness? You know you could not keep it up. You know very well that if have religion enough l could whip you out with kindness. Kindness and love always melts opposition. Jesus was right, but we are all afraid of it.
 "Friends, there are some things icti ". little, average citizens did not understand big President Wilson when he said something about being too proud to fight. I think most of you men that are trying to cultivate ways of courtesy and decency have learned after all. that it is not dig nified to quarrel, You employers never quarrel with your employees and with your office boy. It takes pretty big man to turn around and do a kind thing to one who has just wronGcd him.
 There is one trouble with hate. il makes you so that you are not fiji 10 live with ourself; you hate your SPlI. ltIIe NuItS tue Iiltill "il' uDtH the hating worse than the man who is hated. One of the glorious things about love is that if fills your life with sunshine and makes you a de- cent chap to live with. It blesses the man who is loving more than the man who is loved.
 T knew of a couple of cranks who let their little girl suffer all day with the toothach" because 1t was Sunday and they wouldn't take her to a dentist.
 Jesus put the worth of human above everything. Per sonalty ahove the sacred bread in the temple that David ate; person. ality of tho old folks above hte gift to he made 10 Gods house. The tin accomplished mission of Christian ity is 10 establish soricty on the basis of brotherhood. Every influ- cnca that is unhrotherly must go; every petty assertion of donomina- 2 g.,..