BROTHERHOOD.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1656, 15 February 1883, Page 3

BROTHERHOOD.

The following, is from a lecture lately delivered by the Bishop of Melbourne : , •' When a true 'thought, wKich is also' a deep and great one, gets itself once breathed upon the air, it is found to have an indestructible vitality. Something in the heart of man rises up to meet it, and greet it, and "rejoice in ib, just as^.the plants do when they throw out their triumphal garlands of flowers to hail the coming of the vernal sun. Precisely such has been the influence of that grand conception, which we call the solidarity of humanity ; that the race is one, springing out of one root,, and that we its members, arebranches of that great tree of human life, destined to grow and flourish, or to pine and die together. Not only physiology, but much more j comparative philology, and in these last { (lays, comparative religion also, have been forcing this inspiring conception upon the understanding ot mankind. The heart felt it long ago. Community of suffering proved it to the heart of G-watama, and also in a far later age to the heart of the revolutionary masses of France. It was that loud, glad cry, "Brothers, we are one," which made the outset of the revolution at first so lrrestible. For how could men resist a cry which their own hearts echoed, or hurl themselves with enthusiasm upon a foe who bore on his banners the symbol of universal love. It was only when they found the cry become hollow — a mere catch-word of unscrupulous ambition — that the masses of Europe I'ose at the call of patriotism, and hurled the sham back into darkness. But still because the thought was true, however false to it its first missionaries had become,' it survived the shock of imperial hypocrisy, and lias a stronger hold on the convictions of mankind to-day than when it sprang to new life out of the bloody travail of the revolution. But how now, let us ask is it to enforce its claim— how is it to tiiumph over that mighty impulse of selfishness which has ever been strong enough hitherto to thwart and defeat it .' The reason believes in it, and the conscience approves it. Had it only as much might as light, it would disband all armies, extinguish all national hates, and silence that sound of cannon thunder which is echoing in the woild's heaven 10-day. But, alas ! pa&&ion proves itself too mighty tor the combined force of reason and conscience.

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