(Most popular of Hindoo poets, who recently achieved international fame, and received the Nobel prize) Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads! Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut? Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee! He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones. He is with them in sun and in shower, and his garment is covered with dust. Put off thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil! Deliverance? Where is this deliverance to be found? Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation; he is bound with us all for ever. Come out of thy meditations and leave aside thy flowers and incense! What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained? Meet him and stand by him in toil and in sweat of thy brow. Priests (_From "Songs for the New Age"_) BY JAMES OPPENHEIM (See pages 45, 129, 147) Priests are in bad odor, And yet there shall be no lack of them. The skies shall not lack a spokesman, Nor the spirit of man a voice and a gesture. Not garbed nor churched, Yet, as of old, in loneliness and anguish, They shall come eating and drinking among us, With scourge, pity, and prayer. Brotherhood (_From "The Book of The People"_) BY ROBERT DE LAMENNAIS (French philosopher and religious reformer, 1782-1854) Your task is to form the universal family, to build the City of God, and by a continuous labor gradually to translate His work in Humanity into fact. When you love one another as brothers, and treat each other reciprocally as such; when each one, seeking his own good in the good of all, shall identify his own life with the life of all, his own interests with the interests of all, and shall be always ready to sacrifice himself for all the members of the common family--then most of the ills which weigh upon the human race will vanish, as thick mists gathered upon the horizon vanish at the rising of the sun. BOOK IX _The Voice of the Ages_ Records from all the past history of mankind from twenty-five different races; the earliest being about 3500 B. C. The Suppressions of History (_From "The Ancient Lowly"_) BY C. OSBORNE WARD (American historian, who was forced to publish at his own expense the results of his life-time researches into the early history of the working class)