The Secret of Brotherly Love by Andrew Murray

TWENTY-FIRST DAY.
'!Rational ;!feeling.
" God hath made of one blood all nations
of men."-AcTs xvii. 26.
A
FORMER Prime Minister of England
said in regard to the Boer
War, that it "served to maintain the
principle that the smaller nationalities
should not be oppressed. That is to say,
that all these precious lives and the
treasures of gold were offered up in
vindication of nationality, which may be
regarded as a gift of God, as the divine
right of each nation, according to its
special nature, to preserve and develop
its individuality in the service of the
common life of all the world. This war
will develop national feeling more intensely,
and will increase a national consciousness,
and arouse hope amongst the
peoples who have hitherto been considered
the most backward in the world. People
will slowly learn that national feeling
depends on character, and character
depends on religion.
" In a struggle such as this we cannot
expect the breach to be healed at once ;
but we can cultivate a spirit of Christian
sympathy with those who differ from us,
and cease to regard each other with
suspicion and distrust. We can trust the
honesty of each other's convictions, and
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