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acquire as completely as possible, in the providence of God, the 

 full fruition of the educated man. This he cannot gain, neither 

 should he if he could, unless he recognizes that the rich and the 

 poor, the capitalist and the laborer, the law-abiding and the criminal, 

 and all the working classes of society, are his brothers. These are 

 his neighbors, whom he is to love as himself. He cannot in the 

 highest form succeed in his search for truth, righteousness, and love, 

 unless he, in the spirit of Jesus, recognize all those defective degen- 

 erates and unfortunate classes as an integral part of society, who 

 are to be given by society, as far as enlightened Christian principles 

 and practice can devise, all those opportunities which civilization 

 can offer, so that they too may go as far as possible in the direction 

 of the attainment of the educated man. 



While social religion embraces the whole field of the relations of 

 humanity, I have chosen to illustrate my point of view from the 

 three great problems above briefly treated. If this view is correct, 

 the educated man should not be content until he has done all in his 

 power to give to every human being all the opportunities which he 

 himself enjoys. 



