Christian Brotherhood, Its Claims and Duties, With a Special Reference to the Fratricidal War in America A Sermon Preached in St. Peter's Church, Belsize Park, London on the 1st November, 1863 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Christian Brotherhood, Its Claims and Duties, With a Special Reference to the Fratricidal War in America: A Sermon Preached in St. Peter's Church, Belsize Park, London on the 1st November, 1863

Now just see what this leads to. It leads to the idea of family, - of one vast family, all the members of which are bound together by this bond of humanity. And such was obviously the design of the Creator when he endowed man with those attributes which we term the domestic affections.

It gives rise also to another fact, viz. That this neighbourhood or brotherhood or family (for the words here are synonymous in meaning) establishes a reciprocity of interests and personal rights.

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