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love his fellows, to work with them and for them 

 for the common good of all. 



It seems to me that these Young Men's Christian 

 Associations play a part of the greatest consequence, 

 not merely because of the great good they do in 

 themselves, but because of the lesson of brotherhood 

 that they teach all of us. All of us here are knit 

 together by bonds which we can not sever. For weal 

 or for woe our fates are inextricably intermingled. 

 All of us in our present civilization are dependent 

 upon one another to a degree never before known 

 in the history of mankind, and in the long run we 

 are going to go up or go down together. For a 

 moment some man may rise by trampling on his 

 fellows; for a moment, and much more commonly, 

 some men may think they will rise or gratify their 

 envy and hatred by pulling down others. But any 

 such movement upward is probably illusory, and is 

 certainly short-lived. Any permanent movement 

 upward must come in such a shape that all of us feel 

 the lift a little, and if there is a tendency down 

 ward all of us will feel that tendency, too. We 

 must, if we are to raise ourselves, realize that each 

 of us in the long run can with certainty be raised 

 only if the conditions are such that all of us are 

 somewhat raised. In order to bring about these 

 conditions the first essential is that each shall have 

 a genuine spirit of regard and friendship for the 

 others, and that each of us shall try to look at the 

 problems of life somewhat from his neighbor's 

 standpoint that we shall have the capacity to un- 



