Let me state it in other terms.
any class of society has advan-jages over the rest in point of education, wealth, leisure, gifts and talents of any kind—they are under an obligation to lend their strength freely. The privileged minority can never divest themselves of responsibility for the people as a whole, and for this reason, that if it were not for these people they would not stand where they do or hold what they possess, Last Sunday morning I spoke of our failure to make the mora) advance which is necessary if we are to live up to the larger world to which a. scientific. and _inventive age has brought ws, and of the Jaw which the war has rediscovered fcr us, This is the law, that the part is hound to serve the whole in return for the fact that it depends upon it. What was true and right and obligatory for Reuben and Gad and Manasseh is the line of cur bounden duty too in proportion to cur endowment. For" the chi-valour instruction of this old commander-in-chief is still the law of human advancement, and in the light of it, society will be judged to-day. There is an old saying which proceeds from the lower self, expressing as it docs the law of the jungle "First come, first served,'" we. you get in front of others in order that they may serve you. But the law of the higher self, the law of the Kingdom, reverses that adage "First come, first serve," i.e, you are allowed to be ahead of others in order that you may serve them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.