NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



There is no more unfailing sign 

 of the nearness of Christ than the 

 growth of loving beyond the pro- 

 vincialism of the family, the clan, 

 the class, the nation. "Ye are 

 brethren." All things in common 

 was not an impracticable dream, 

 but a fundamental law of the king- 

 dom of the spiritual Man. We 

 must organize sooner or later on 

 that basis. We are speeding on- 

 ward toward that sun. We feel 

 its growing heat. If we do not 

 love our brethren whom we have 

 seen, how can we love God whom 

 we have not seen? What do ye 

 mean by the communion of saints, 

 ye who pray it Sunday by Sunday? 

 Spell it out. Brotherhood is not 

 a fiction of the imagination. Com- 

 munion is not a Pentecostal fan- 

 tasy. A living Christ is to-day 

 more than ever on earth an aggres- 

 sively unifying force. 



" Inasmuch as ye did it to one 

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