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ing, that made the victory of neighborly 

 feeling so difficult, yet so glorious. He 

 treated even his old persecutor as a neigh- 

 bor. Ah! there may have seemed some 

 excuse for sectarian animosity in Reforma- 

 tion times, when Christian men were fight- 

 ing for standing room in the church of God, 

 and Catholic and Huguenot, Cavalier and 

 Covenanter were carving out their creeds 

 with their swords, and illuminating them 

 with faggots ; but in this free land of free 

 churches, with all sects and creeds shedding 

 their errors and blending their truths in the 

 searching light of science, learning, and 

 thought, who of us can be infallible ? The 

 ideal churchman with whom I must be 

 willing to fraternize may be Romanist or 

 Protestant, Calvinist or Arminian, Congre- 

 gationalist,Presbyterian,or Episcopalian, — 

 if he is a fellow disciple of the same divine 

 Master, if he is a fellow sinner who craves 

 the same Saviour to atone for his errors and 

 for mine, — then he is my neighbor. 



Can you bring yourself up to the high 

 test ? Think not of some poor churchless 

 outcast needing only your neighborly gifts 

 of food and raiment. Think rather of some 

 unchurching or of some unchurched brother 



