with mighty forces. Beasts of prey would meet him, and birds of the air snatch away something he sought. His life would be a conflict with gravitation and tempest, with moth and malaria, with blight and death. Some things which in combination with other men of like aim and power he might easily win, he must in his solitude abandon as unattainable. The best part of his being must be left undeveloped. He must live a recluse, and lie unburied when death at once subdued him.

You and I must live together, in the same community, possibly in the same street, the same church, and what if it be in the same house! We must live together. It is an inexorable law of nature, which is the immutable and eternal law of God. From it there is no escape. Old men accept it; wise men approve it; good men enjoy it. Thus are homes created; thus villages, towns, cities and states grow up. Now, people who live together may live in solitude, each may live for himself. Personal interests may collide. Sullen silence may take the place of conversation. A man may eat at the same table with you, and be plotting for his own interest against you. For he who lives for himself is sure to work against the man who stands in his way. The aim of the other makes no differ ence to him, whether it be innocent and just or not. He is bent on his own ends. If you are in his way, he will drive his car over you. If you oppose him, he will soon dispose of you, and he is not particular as to the time or the way or the process involved in the transaction. His line will run across your property. If the law enters, he will resort to bribery or fraud or violence. His contract will give him an advantage through some technicality, and against all fairness he will exact the last pound of flesh. And thus, in endless ways, the selfish man will live for himself in society, using the law and the power and other advantages which social organizations secure,

not to build up and help society, but to build up and help himself. If he be a monarch, he will oppress the weak; if a millionaire, he will grind the poor. He lives alone as nearly as he can in a world full of people. "Self" is written on his door-posts, frescoed on his walls, graven on his harness. Self, self, self. He "minds his own business." He pleases himself. He looks out for number one. He is not his brother's keeper. With him it is all "I," and "my," and "mine." You are a cipher, and he cares for you only when he can put you, the cipher, on the right-hand of the unit, "I," and thus you make him count ten times more than he could alone. Then, indeed, that colossal "I" cares for you.

You and I must recognize this fact, the inter-dependence under the laws of God which control it, that we may repress selfishness and foster love; that we may mind that part of our own business which has fixed proper relations to each other; that we may limit, too, our personal ambition by the well-being of our fellow men, and scorn to accept personal advantage at the expense of the comfort, security and happiness of our neighbors.

You and I must learn the rule and possess the spirit of the good Samaritan. We must commit and remember the second law of the commandment-"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." We must become like the good, unselfish one, who delighted to do the will of God, who pleased not himself, but went about doing good, and who gave his life for the salvation of the world. If you and I could enter into his life; if we could look on humanity as he did; and, according to our ability, do for humanity what he did, we should find the highest joy of living; and if society generally followed his example, we should soon hear an end of all strikes and strifes, and the coming of a brighter day for our race.

You and I must live for each other. We must talk and act and vote in mutual and not in selfish interest. If one is rich and one is poor, we must vote for those ends that are best for both rich and poor. We must be fair towards each other as members of the same government; must not be bound by party, but by principle; must take measures that are for the good of the whole nation and in harmony with the laws of God; must stand by men who are true and courageous and just. What a nation we might have if we were all, as citizens, loyal to God and to humanity! Well, this is what you and I

are to aim at.

You and I, as neighbors, must carry out the doctrine embod ied in the "Golden Rule; " we must not quarrel over boundary lines, meddlesome pugs, invading chickens, unreasoning children. We must not carry talk from one house to another, nor allow other people to do it in our hearing. We must not listen, and then we shall not hear. People, as a rule, do not talk much to the deaf and dumb. As neighbors, we should be mutual helps, yet you and I will not borrow when we can possibly help it. People who borrow little, count it a luxury to lend, and much borrowing would soon spoil the pleasure. We may not talk against each other, never. Not even by the other,—never. slight casting of the eye, the lifting of the brow, or the shrug of the shoulders. Good will may be marred and confidence broken by a look, and even a child will interpret it. It will be well, therefore, to love and be patient. And where love is put to the test, to be long-suffering, gentle, and forgiving to the last. Blessed is the neighborhood where neighbors are neighborly!

You and I must remember that the first, last, best, strongest place in this world is the home. It is the true center of the state, the community, the church and the school. Good homes make good neighbors, good citizens, good scholars, good

saints. You and I should carry to it the law of "minding our own business" in the ordering of our households. We should train ourselves that we may train our children. The best governor is he who is self-governed. A man who cannot rule his own spirit cannot rule his own children. We must keep calm hearts, unruffled brows, subdued voices, and wellchosen words. Then we can expect silence and serenity in our children when these are required of them. And we can the more easily endure and the more effectually correct, impatience and irritability and bad temper in them. What father and mother cannot themselves do, they cannot with grace or consistency insist that their children should do. You and I must make home a pleasant place. It may not be large and elegant, but it may be beautiful and attractive. Pictures and flowers, fresh air, good books, bright smiles, cheerful songs, sweet tones, true prayer, loving ministries,— all these cost little, but are counted of inestimable value. They make homes that make men and women, and they create memories that remain forever. Especially must we keep an altar of religion in our homes, Fires of family worship should burn there every day. The word of God should every day be opened. We should be familiar with the precious promises of scripture, the sweetest hymns of the church, and the lives of the noble and devout saints of the ages.

You and I, therefore, have wide and responsible relations. May we so live that, dying, we may live forever. And may we walk the streets of the New Jerusalem, through the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.