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closed that place of temptation, and have neg- 

 lected to do so. 



The solidarity of the race is a terrible but 

 evident reality. All are of one blood. If the 

 < ommon life is polluted by the vice of any single 

 individual, then the lot of all others is harder ; 

 and their tendencies to evil are stronger. But 

 if, on the other hand, any man rises to a loftier 

 and purer manhooa than his parents or his neigh- 

 bours, he does his part not only in purifying him- 

 self but also in ameliorating society and improving 

 the race. 



These facts should make all lenient in their 

 judgments of their fellow-men, and especially 

 careful about punishment. Who should be pun- 

 ished, the one that applied the fuse, or the one 

 that laid the train .-• 



No man liveth to himself. The individual's 

 sin is his own, and yet it belongs to the race 

 also. Equally the virtue of the individual is not 

 his own alone ; it also is a product into which 

 have gone the toils, tears, sacrifices, prayers of 

 millions who never heard his name. 



This study brings to light one thought which 

 in our time is having wide recognition, and that 

 is, that Jesus Christ is a social, as well as an in- 

 dividual. Saviour. His mission is to states and 



