Brotherhood

“It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.”

“Speak not too well of one who scarce will knowBut claim him, keep him, call him brother still!”

“The crest and crowning of all good, And travel downward to the dust of graves.”

“Come, clear the way, then, clear the way: Make way for Brotherhood — make way for Man.”

“There is a destiny that makes us brothers:Comes back onto our own.”

“Thy sweet magic brings togetherWhere thy happy wing-beats are.”

“Enough of good there is in the lowest estate to sweeten life; enough of evil in the highest to check presumption; enough there is of both in all estates, to bind us in compassionate brotherhood, to teach us impressively that we are of one dying and one immortal family.”

“My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it is to have everv one whom we meet for our brother in the sight of God; that it is this, never to meet any one, however bad he may be, for whom we cannot say. "Christ died for that man, and Christ cares for him still. He is precious in God's eyes, and he shall be precious in mine also."”

“Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places — at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.”

“I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the "love that urges me to efforts for their good. I hail the great brotherhood of trial and temptation in the name of humanity, and give them assurance that from the Divine Man, and some, at least, of His disciples, there goes out to them a flood of sympathy that would fain sweep them up to the firm footing of the rock of safety.”