sianic
work was to be done; his temptations prove that. When he went out from
Capernaum to pray "a great while before day," it was to launch his
aggressive missionary campaign among the Galilaean villages. Prayer may be
an emotional dissipation. Prayer is Christian only if it makes us realize
our fellows more keenly and affectionately.

It is one thing to praise love and another thing to practice it. We may
theorize about society and ourselves be contrary and selfish units in it.
Social unity is an achievement. A loving mind toward our fellows, even the
cranky, is the prize of a lifetime. How can it be evoked and cultivated in
us? That is one of the most important problems in education. Can it be
solved without religious influences? Love will not up at the bidding. We
can observe the fact that personal discipleship of Christ has given some
persons in our acquaintance a rare capacity for love, for social sympathy,
for peaceableness, for all the society-making qualities. We can make test
of the fact for ourselves that every real contact with him gives us an
accession of fraternity and greater fitness for nobler social unity. It
makes us good fellows.

IV

The man who intelligently realizes the Chinese and the Zulu as his
brothers with whom he must share the earth, is an ampler mind--other things
being equal--than the man who can think of humanity only in terms of
pale-faces. The consciousness of humanity will have to be wrought out just
as the consciousness of nationality was gradually acquired. He who has it
is ahead of his time and a pioneer of the future. The missionary puts
himself in the position to acquire that wider sense of solidarity. By
becoming a neighbor to remote people he broadens their conception of
humanity and his own, and then can be an interpreter of his new friends to
his old friends. The interest in foreign missions has, in fact, been a
prime educational force, carrying a world-wide consciousness of solidarity
into thousands of plain minds and hones that would otherwise have been
provincial in their horizon.

A world-wide civilization must have a common monotheistic faith as its
spiritual basis. Such a faith must be unitive and not divisive. What the
world needs is a religion with a powerful sense of solidarity.

Suggestions for Thought and Discussion

I. _Solidarity in Human Life_

1. Are comradeship and team-work instinctive, or must they be learned?

2. Do the symptoms of hatred