History of American SocialismsNoyes, John Humphrey
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History of American Socialisms
Noyes, John Humphrey
Communism -- United States; Socialism -- United States
"An important branch of the divine mission of our Savior Jesus
Christ, was to establish the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth. He
announced incessantly the practical reign of Divine wisdom and
love among all men: and it was a chief aim of all his struggles
and teachings to prepare the minds of men for this glorious
consummation. He proclaimed the universal brotherhood of
mankind; he insisted upon universal justice, and he predicted
the triumphs of universal unity. 'Thou shall love,' he said,'the
Lord thy God with all thy mind and all thy heart, and all thy
soul, and thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments
hang all the law and the prophets.' Again: 'If ye love not one
another, how can ye be my disciples?' 'I have loved you, that
you also may love one another.' 'Ye are all one, as I and my
father are one.' Again: he taught us to ask in daily prayer of
our Heavenly Father, 'Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven.' Aye, it must be done, actually
executed in all the details of life! And again, in the same
spirit his disciple said, 'Little children, love one another.'
'If you love not man, whom you have seen, how can you love God
whom you have not seen?' And in regard to the form which this
love should take, the apostle Paul says, 'As the body is one, so
also is Christ. For by one spirit we are all baptized into one
body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,' &c. 'That there should be
no schism (disunity) in the body, but that the members should
have the same care one for another; and if one member suffer,
all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all
the members rejoice with it.' 'Ye are members one of another.'
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