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REV. S. B. MCCORMICK, D.D._, ON 



" Was he a false prophet who cried out in some such per- 

 plexity of spirit : 



" ' Thou lookest down from heaven ; thou beholdest the 

 children of men ; thou fashionest their hearts alike ? ' 



" Was he a false Messiah who sent apostles to the other 

 sheep and who will never regard His work as finished until all 

 the sheep are in the fold ? He taught His disciples to pray in 

 terms of the common human needs and common human 

 relationship — ' Our Father.' He lifted Himself from the 

 narrowest social race views and, with a sublime gesture, pointing 

 to the crowd, spoke majestically : 



" ' Tor whosoever shall do the will of My Father Who is 

 in Heaven he is My brother and My sister and My mother.' " 



Professor Steiner is right. Some nation must arise which 

 will for ever put away race feeling and substitute for it the 

 perfect social consciousness, warmed and directed by the spirit 

 of Him Who made all nations one, and all men brothers. 

 What nation so likely as America, to whose sheltering arms 

 all the peoples have come, there to abide until the great inter- 

 racial composite shall be complete ? No matter how far 

 removed we are as yet from this conception the process of 

 assimilation will be finished only when the social composite 

 is made perfect. When that da}' has come — and God grant 

 that England and Germany and all the others may have reached 

 it also — then war cannot be ; for war springs out of prejudice, 

 and ignorance, and selfishness, and lust of power, and pride of 

 life ; not out of sympathy and friendship, and brotherhood and 

 love ; and these are the elements of the Social Composite which 

 some time America will become. Who shall then say that it 

 is far removed from what the Scriptures call " The Kingdom 

 of God"? 



4. TJie Religious Comioosite. 



Sociology has no meaning apart from religion. The social 

 composite and the religious composite are, if not identical, at 

 least intermingled one with the other, as psychology is mingled 

 with both. Strictly, a social composite is impossible save as 

 religion makes it possible. 



It is said that the skull of the man who embraced the 

 Eeformed Faith in Switzerland, Germany and Holland, has 

 certain readily distinguishable measurements and shapes. 

 Presumably this is fiction ; but if it were fact it would be an 

 interesting inquiry as to whether the head produced the theology 



