Article September 17, 1904 Issue

"For we be brethren"

SAMUEL GREENWOOD.

"Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, ... for we be brethren."

The human race is torn by the dissensions of hatred and the strifes of personal ambition. It writhes in the self-inflicted tortures of jealousy, revenge, and greed. The kindly and gentle qualities of human nature are trodden under the heel of a passion for personal gain. Those of common kindred, impelled by the same hopes and fears, and with the same interests at stake, who should live and love as brethren, are biting and devouring one another in the insanity of their self-love. What but divine Love can deliver mortals from this awful bondage? What but Christian Science, the rejected religion of Jesus, has ever made possible to men the demonstration of this divine Principle, destroying the pleasure of sin and the desire to hate or defraud each other? What but Christian Science has ever proclaimed man's independence of evil, of all selfishness and suffering?

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