Brotherhood

All about us, evermore, are human needs and sorrows, which make their mute appeal to us. We are our brother’s keepers. It will not avail as excuse for us that we did our brother no harm. Did we do him the good that his condition needed? It looks from the story as if the priest, when he came to the wounded man, kept his face turned away, so that he could not see him. There are many people that do the same these days. They refuse to see the misery and sorrow about them. But keeping ourselves ignorant of human needs will never excuse us for not relieving them. 

J. R. Miller. D. D.

No distance breaks the ties of blood;

Brothers are brothers evermore;

Nor wrong, nor wrath or deadliest mood,

That magic may o’erpower.

So it is with true Christian hearts;

Their mutual share in Jesus’ blood

An everlasting bond imparts

Of holiest brotherhood.

O might we all our lineage prove,

Give and forgive, do good in love,

By soft endearments in kind strife

Lightening the load of daily life.

Taken from A Daily Message from Many Minds