Article May 21, 1938 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Brotherly Love

with contributions from Henry Geerlings, C. Edgar Wilkinson, W. E. McCulloch, Haile Selassie, J. Harry Hooper, George Paish

[Henry Geerlings, in the Sentinel, Holland, Michigan]

Seemingly, one of the most difficult teachings of Christ [Jesus] to learn is that respecting the brotherhood of man. We know little about loving our neighbor as ourselves. After more than nineteen hundred years of Christianity we have not yet learned who our neighbors really are. We have not yet discovered that a neighbor is not necessarily white....

Let us grant that the white race may be superior; that the white man leads in the arts and letters and the sciences; but this gives him no right to despise his fellow man of another race, nor to make it hard for him to realize himself and to get along well in the world. Any superiority that the white man may have carries with it the responsibility of using that superiority to help his fellow man of whatever color or race to climb upward in the business of making manhood and of having his right place in the world....

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