take the trouble to tell lies of me?"

Sex admiration, parental love, "the dear love of comrades," the thrill of
patriotism, the joy of play, are all forms of fellowship. They give us
happiness because they satisfy our social instinct. To realize our unity
gives relish to life. To be thrust out of fellowship is the great pain.
Many evil things get their attractiveness mainly through the fact that
they create a bit of fellowship--such as it is. The slender thread of good
in the saloon is comradeship. (See Jack London, "John Barleycorn.")

I

None ever felt this social unity of our race more deeply than Jesus. To
him it was sacred and divine. Hence his emphasis on love and forgiveness.
He put his personality behind the natural instinct of social attraction
and encouraged it. He swung the great force of religion around to bear on
it and drive it home. Anything that substitutes antagonism for fraternity
is evil to him. Just as in the case of the natural respect for human life
and personality, so in the case of the natural social cohesion of men, he
lifted the blind instinct of human nature by the insight of religion and
constituted it a fundamental principle of life. It is the business of
Christianity to widen the area of comradeship.

Common human judgment assents to the valuation of Jesus. Wherever an
effective and stable form of fellowship has been created, a sense of
sacredness begins to attach to it, and men defend it as a sort of shrine
of the divine in man. Wherever men are striving to create a larger
fellowship, they have religious enthusiasm as if they were building a
temple for God. This is the heart of church loyalty.

The family is the most striking case of solidarity. It is first formed of
two units at opposite poles in point of sex, experience, taste, need, and
aims; and when they form it, they usually have as much sense of sacredness
as their character is capable of feeling. When children are added, more
divergences of age, capacity, and need are injected. Yet out of these
contradictory elements a social fellowship is built up, which, in the
immense majority of cases, defies the shocks of life and the strain of
changing moods and needs, forms the chief source of contentment for the
majority of men and women, and, when conspicuously successful, wins the
spontaneous tribute of reverence from all right-thinking persons. In using
the equipment of the home, in standing by one another in time of sickness