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Education
Can Improve
Social Ties

Lincoln Chose Despot
Over Base Hypocrite

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Brotherhood

Beware the gilded word, the honeyed phrase;

Soft-spoken preachments, generalities
That bear no fruit. With tongue in cheek they raise
The hearts of men to great expectancies.
Beware the pallid handshake, vapid smile;
Remote assurances without the ring of
Of truth. These are the trappings to beguile
The naive mind. True Brotherhood must cling
to sterner stuff. Proclaim the love of man
For man, devoid of prejudice and strife.
Inscribe the wiser statute, free of ban;
Bring surer moments to the weary life.
Let acts, not words, spell out the greater good
To crown our lives with real Brotherhood.

DR. DAVID D. HENRY
By REV. PAUL MORRISON, D.D.
President, Wayne University
Minister, Trinity Methodist Church
ROTHERHOOD WEEK is an
NE STANZA OF A POEM written by Dr. Walter Russell Bowie
occasion which can help us
gain perspective in a world ‘-1 of New York City strikes this high idealism:
Give us, 0 God, the strength to build
troubled in its human relations.
We need such perspective as we
The city that hath stood
Too long a dream, whose laws are Love,
look at human behavior. When
Whose ways are Brotherhood,
we see the biases and prejudices
And where the sun that shineth is
that daily mar human relations
God's grace for human good.
in almost every department of
(From "Beauty and Mystery" by
human activity, we can under-
This is not a new dream. For 4
Herman E. Segelin, published this week by
stand how some people are at centuries men have dreamed of no pretense of loving liberty
Exposition Press, New York.) - .
times given to bitterness and Brotherhood and the City of God. (and get this subversive word
from
the
great
Commoner)—
discouragement, to a depression Cicero declared, "The universe
speak, on their own doorsteps.
that would seem to support the is a commonwealth of men" and to Russia, for instance, where
Instead of trying to reform a
feeling that any change from China's Confucius is credited despotism can be taken pure
city, we might begin with our
what they see would be a wel- with saying "The men of the without the base alloy of hypo-
crisy."
own street and our own little
come change.
four seas are kinsmen."
Brotherhood is not only an at-
groups.
Such people are prey for the
If this has been the common
satirist, the pessimist, and the dream of men down through the titude toward one's own relation-
charlatans who organize hu- centuries, why is the world still ship to others but it is a program
man hate and bigotry. They a jungle, ravaged by war and for daily living. Someone has said
have lost the perspective that hatred, enmity and strife, satur- that the "Brotherhood of Man
has at all times been the basis ated with Brother-blood rather depends upon the manhood of RT. REV. RICHARD S. EMRICII
the brother."
Episcopal Bishop of Michigan
for the work of those who have than BrotherHOOD?
We used to hear so much about
helped to improve the lot of
TEACHING of Brother-
THE
Man does not know who he the great wall of China. It was
men.
is. He has not discovered his originally raised against Man- .1 - hood and tolerance is based
We have made long strides in own nature. He has not become
not upon vague goodwill, but
a short peirod of time, as the aware that he is a Child of God c'huria, Siberia, Mongolia and upon facts. All men are brothers,
Russia,
was
it
not?
The
old
wall
historian measures time, in im- and as such belongs to the great
was built of brick and mortar created as such by God, and it
provement in human relations. family of God.
and mud. No nation tries to is only their blindness and sin
Racial barriers have been low-
that leads them to deny this.
There is but one race—the
ered, religious persecutions have human race! Man either has build such a Maginot line today,
God has made us of one blood
but
who
can
say
that
there
are
been minimized, the boundaries not learned or does not want
not greater walls, -called Iron with our lives interdependent.
of "foreign-ness" have been re- to learn the basic truth writ-
Isolationism of any kind.is, there-
duced, and by any measuring ten into the very constitution Curtains, being erected which are fore, an awful lie revealing an
far
more
threatening
to
the
stick one would wish to use, of his universe; the fundamen-
peace and brotherhood of the evil arrogance.
great progress has been made.
We move into the truth when
tal law of the good earth: The world—the WALL OF IDEAS!
Of course, there remains a tre- solidarity of the human family.
we
deny isolationism and join
Even America is building
mendous amount of work to do,
Every city must have a philos- those walls. Unless a nation hands as the brothers we are.
to have all people everywhere ophy. Every land must be gov- accepts us, our foreign policy,
Tolerance is based upon facts,
because it recognizes the na-
gain that level of mental health erned by law. Let commonwealth our atomic threats and every-
which will remove, as a force in or nation deny the basic divine
ture of conscience and of
else, as some Americans
their daily lives, the bigotries law of man's oneness with his thing
thought. It respects the inner
would interpret it, they are no
so
cause
and intolerances which
integrity of every man, and
fellow man, and that common-
friends of \null.
longer
.auch hurt and sorrow.
recognizes that in matters of
wealth or nation will reap the
Brotherhood
will
not
come
We shall attain this goal, seed it sows.
belief compulsion of any kind
with
hysteria,
nor
fear,
nor
shak-
however, not by law, not by
Here lies the tragedy of strife ing the mailed fist. Brotherhood is out of place.
force, not by rebellion, not by and division; of misunderstand-
Compulsion in religious mat-
casting aside the very tools ing and hate. Brotherhood can- will come to this nation, demon- ters leads inevitably to hypocri-
strating
true
democracy,
only
as
which have made for our past not be purchased on bargain
sy. When, therefore, the argu-
progress, but by working to- counters, neither can it be a we strive to be friendly, under- ment is used that "error should
standing,
and
some
measure
of
gether for the education of commodity put on the labor-
not be tolerated," we should re-
men and women in wholesome market for seasonal employment. protection for the rights of peo- ply as follows:
ple, all people, to determine their
human relationships.
The conscience of a man even
It is not a week to be ob-
Education is the chief instru- served but an attitude to be own destinies.
Brotherhood can and should be in religious error must be re-
ment of human progress, and lived and dealt with 52 weeks
lived, and it begins with my own spected, and to deny this is to
Brotherhood Week is a reminder a year. And in the art of Brother- family, my next-door neighbors, deny the will of God for the soul
of a fundamental condition of hood as in every other fine art,
fellow-citizens in a great of man."
education. True enlightenment of we must practice and practice with
Intolerance is an evil thing
city; with people working toward
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mind is possible only when the if we are to be skilled in recog- closer harmony and effective which does not respect man's in-
mind is free from bias, prejudice, nizing ourselves as a part of the service together, in the nation ner life.
STORES
t and superstition.
The great step forward in
human family.
and throughout the world. We
The world has need of enlight-
our
city
toward
more
Broth-
Our daily living either makes can, if we will, make Brother-
Grand Rapids - Saginaw
ened minds; and it has equal need or mars the solidarity of that hood a rising sun promising a erhood and tolerance would be
d of those who will live to the end family. Brotherhood lived and new day, instead of a dead moon taken if more people would do
1 that the judgments of enlighten- practiced is as meaningful when which has spent its night!
those things which lie, so to
ed minds will prevail in every- one is in the minority as in the
majority. It is not a matter of
is day actions.
numbers that determines basic
'0
brotherhood, but an attitude of
mind and a consciousness of soul.
Brotherhood is a,Soul Force—
of
and thank God, even in this
twisted world of crisis, it is NOT
D-
a SPENT FORCE!
on
Abraham Lincoln was presi-
to
dent when the "Know-Noth-
ss
ing" craze came along, and
he
their hatred extended not only
of
to negroes but to "foreigners
the shell-curved sling cape in
and Catholics." Lincoln is
pt
quoted as having said he would
is By REV. R. L. BRADBY, JR.
Black Broadtail Persian Paw
prefer "em:grating to some
ra-
other
country
where
they
made
Greater King Solomon
ms
Baptist Church
;ht
5 plus taxes
WITH THE NARROWING hor- not only the exponents of broth-
" izon of the world both so- erhood, but live so that all may
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cially and politically, Brother- see that we believe deeply in the
et
hood Week takes on, this year, a fundamental principal that all
A little Spring gem, this
men regardless of race, creed, or
luxurious sling cape that
a greater meaning than ever be- color are created in the image
fore.
It
you'll wear every hour of
of
God,
and
members
of
the
great
As we seek to impress the
n .
the day! A close mark-up
human
family;
and
it
is
that
people of the world with the ad-
ler vantages of our way of life it common ancestry which makes us
accounts for the budget
is is increasingly important that brothers.
price on this new com-
ion we give serious consideration to
A mutual respect for each oth-
bination fur fashion.
ich the ideals we claim to hold.
ers aims and aspirations, un-
ids.
Brotherhood must be more ceasing effort to secure for all
fur salon, third floor
re- than a word which is spoken men equal right and opportun-
ity,
will
be
evidence
of
our
be-
an by those who seek to convince
lief in the Fatherhood of God
na- others of their sincerity.
the
We, as Americans, have as the and the Brotherhood of man.
We cannot hope for peace, se-
a basis of our government the
Constitution and the Declaration curity, or prosperity until the
oud of Independence, instruments barriers which has been set up
by the prejudiced, godless men
flag which speak forcefully and elo- of the world and of our nation
ope quently of the rghts of the in-
has been broken down by sheer
ing dividual and of his conduct in force of concerted action on the
WOODWARD AT STATE ONLY
relation
to
his
fellowman.
Drld
part
of
the
messengers
of
love.
We must of a necessity become

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Brotherhood
Should Start
in the Home

May the

Principles

of

Brotherhood

Week

Live

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In Amity
Lies - Hope
for Peace

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