When the beams of love and joy, on the
land and on the sea, shine everywhere, man-
kind, as they look into each other's faces^
wreathed in brotherly smiles, will be led to
doubt whether such savages as Arabs, and
Turks, and Spaniards ever existed. Their faces
will crimson with a sensation of shame to think
that Christian men and women ever read with



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pleasure, in the Sunday morning news, whole
pages of nauseous stuff about such beastly
men as Corbett and Fitzsimmons. They, in
that age of manhood, when men love God with
all their hearts and their neighbors as them-
selves, will feel at heart a slight degree of pain
to think that men and women, created in the
image of God, a little lower than the angels,
should fall so ignominiously low in the scale of
human beings. And in that age of brotherly
kindness it will sound very much like a story
of fiction when they read on the pages of his-
tory the declaration that for more than eight-
een hundred years after the birth and death of
Christ, who prayed that his friends might all be
one, the Roman Catholic and Protestant sects,
calling themselves Christians, would not meet
together to celebrate his life and death in a me-
morial service; and the Catholics were so bit-
ter in their feelings toward the Protestants that
they would not. suffer intermarriages, nor per-
mit Protestants to be buried in their cemeter-
ies — thus nursing a bitter spirit of hatred and
revenge unworthy of savages; a spirit demoniac
in its very nature, which Christ and his apos-
tles abhorred and cast out.
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