Living Out Our Religion.
By Dr. Seiss
THERE was a time when he who spent his day in the cell of the hermit had his name written in the calendar, his praises chanted in the churches, and his bones carefully gathered after death and laid up in golden altars, whither mitred bishops and high officials came kneeling to touch them in solemn devotion. But God does not mean that we should be morose and misanthropic eremites, but bold and active confronters of the trials and evils of life—men and women who shall act well our parts in the common relations in which he has created man, and earnest copyists of the example of that Holy One “who went about doing good.” Jesus did not flee to the solitudes and keep aloof from intercourse with men. He remained among his fellows. He visited their habitations; he gave attention to their tears and distress; he wept with them when they wept, and rejoiced with them when they rejoiced. His whole life was one ever-blooming charity. And the Spirit that was in the Master is that which constitutes the most heavenly goodness in his followers: “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” “As ye would that others should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.”—Dr. Seiss.