Christian Brotherhood be not evinced in acts of charity for Christ's sake, a brotherhood of Socialism, that counterfeits Christianity, will supersede it in men's affections and men's faith. It will utterly blind the eyes of the multitude who follow their infidel leaders in the confederacy of Antichrist against the Church. Social organizations, working at first beside the Church, will at last oppose the Church. Already in the midst of us are societies, offering pantheistic worship, pretending to philanthropic ethics; and in training for any enterprise, whether against the state, the family, or the Church. Men are nourishing the viper in their bosom. But when the Church shall arise and shine-when the works of charity, and the tears of sympathy, and the selfsacrificing endeavours of a heart in earnest shall manifest our faith in the common Redeemer of all mankind, then will Socialisms have no work to do, no tears to shed, no efforts to make, no subjects to care for, no theory to demonstrate. The problem, "How God has constituted Society," shall be demonstrated. Men shall discover where the Brotherhood is to be sought for, and where it shall be found; even in the one Holy City of our God, which hath foundations whose walls are Salvation and whose gates Praise. God and the Lamb are the light thereof.

III. And hence we learn, finally, How we must love the Brotherhood.

My brethren, I have avoided, as much as possible, all discussion of the political and metaphysical theories of Socialism, in order to grasp the one idea of every social system, viz. that of Brotherhood. How then shall the Christian love the Brotherhood? How manifest his love to the brethren ?

1. In the first place, he must love sincerely. And to love sincerely, he must pray sincerely for all estates and conditions of men. Remembering them before Him who made,

redeemed, and loves them. Remembering them before Him who will not be mocked and cannot be deceived, unto whom all hearts are open, and all desires known, you will bear away from the mercy seat that unction from the Holy One, which will warm your heart with the love of Christ. Prayer, then, is the foremost means of grace, whereby to love the Brotherhood. He that loveth God will love his

brother also.

2. And next, you must begin to exercise your love for your own kinsmen after the flesh, conquering the spirit of contention that disturbs the fireside of your homes. And you must learn to bear and forbear with your brethren of the same household.

3. And, enlarging the compass of your expanding heart, you must cease to strive with brethren of the same household of faith; you must think kindly of other Christians, who, from education or from self-will, are departed from the unity of the Body and live in Schism. Then, like the extending circuit of the ripple that a stone makes when cast upon the waters, your sympathies shall widen their diameter till the circumference of your love shall embrace the world. The Holy reform must commence in each Christian heart. The Spirit of God and of Christ must be its Author and its Finisher.

4. Besides this internal sanctification, the Christian must look to the example of his Master, and imitate the pattern of those primitive disciples who followed Him most closely.

5. And let me add that it would be wise to take counsel from the enemy, on the principle that "the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light." Churchmen, therefore, must assert their Brotherhood, till, like living epistles, they are known and read of all men. Is the fellowship of Socialism witnessed in tending the sick? Let communicants be ready at the call of

their rector to watch and pray by the bedside of a brother, and in the hovels of the outcast. Does Socialism erect its hospitals, provide its schools, establish its funds for widows and orphans? Let the alms of the church be copious and overflowing, instead of being stinted in their supply, in order that from this source, and sanctified as gifts from off God's altar, they may suffice for schools and hospitals and asylums. Does Socialism display its fellowship in a numerous train of attendants upon funerals? Let churchmen emulate each other in paying the last rites at the obsequies of their brethren. And in the multitudinous calls for charity, let each be "a cheerful giver," counting his gains as the Lord's usury, esteeming himself as the Lord's steward. If the earnestness and the wisdom of Socialists be transplanted into the Church, our Christian Socialism shall flourish with blossoms of beauty and of fragrance, till they mature into the luscious fruit of brotherly love, the celestial taste of which shall evince that they have grown in the Paradise of God.

Brethren in Christ! love the Brotherhood! prove your faith by love! show your love by works! what I have feebly sketched exemplify! then shall opponent fellowships cease, and men shall say of us, "Surely God is with. you of a truth."