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in some unknown quarter of the universe. The Son of 

 David distinctly and repeatedly claimed to be the Hebrew 

 Messiah, the realization of the prophet-promise of Jeho- 

 vah to the patriarchs. He is a rash commentator who 

 asserts that the Beni-Israel ever believed this promised 

 Messiah to be other than a terrestrial one, the founder of 

 a kingdom of God and of Israel on the earth. There has 

 been a fatal break in the facts of Scripture here, an in- 

 sincere compromise with Zend-Avestan spirit myths, which 

 has always weakened Christianity as a world faith, and 

 from which science will now shortly compel it to purge 

 itself or fall. 



The golden rule is no sentimental phantasy of an 

 exalted dreamer, but a matter of human utility and neces- 

 sity. This is the Way, and until it is adopted, 

 nationally and internationally, mankind will stick and 

 pause in its onward career. It is a prime requisite to the 

 farther progress of human life, and as such must be 

 recognized by civilized man everywhere. It is that 

 greater Christianity which is yet to come. 



The difficulty of initiating an era of good-will and 

 mutual cooperation lies not so much in the perversity of 

 men, individually, or their inherent unwillingness to 

 make those needful sacrifices, as in our present inability 

 to bring about a world- wide understanding and to secure 



