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AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 27, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 39.

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AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?

By Bishop F. D. Huntington

OLD Syracuse was admirably literary. When it took its Athenian enemies captive in battle it spared those of them who could repeat the verses of Euripides. But old Syracuse crushed humanity, tortured slaves, worshiped with its appetites, and greedily swallowed its weak competitors till it was itself swallowed by greedier Rome.
"Am I my brother's keeper?" It is Cain's question. Yes, you are; all men and women are one another's keepers, educators, helpers or hinderers, saviours or seducers. You are trying to fill your life with beautiful things. The way is to fill it with right things; for, as society ripens, as the standard of manhood rises, the right things will come to be the beautiful things, as sure as God lives.—Bishop F. D. Huntington.