Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1877 — Christ’s Brotherhood. [ARTICLE]

Christ’s Brotherhood.

While we are taught in Scripture that in Christ dwells “all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,” we are also taught that He, the “one mediator between God and man,” is emphatically “ the Man Christ Jesus,” and as such, possessing a human spirit, and soul, and body, and partaking in all the mental and physical sorrows, toils and trials of humanity, is “ touched with the feeling of our infirmities,” haying been “in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” He came not to this world in the fullness of manhood, and strength, and power, -but He came as a little child in Bethlehem’s manger, a humble babe on Mary’s knee. He brought Himself so low that He might enter into closest relation and fellowship with us, and for this cause He is not ashamed to call us brethren. In His lowly infancy He became the brother of every feeble, wailing, helpless babe; in His boyhood He became the brother of every little boy beset with all the snares and temptations of this life; in His manhood He became the brother of every toil-worn, burdened man. He knew the hindrances, the temptations, the trials of the poor, for He shared them all. He was a brother in labor and suffering, he was a brother in weakness and weariness, a brother in poverty and distress. He had sorrow as we bat e, and needed consolation as wo need it. He knew joy mid friendship, and fellowship and love.— The Chrittian. Eight hundred and skvrntythbkk children and adults died of diphtheria in Ban Francisco during the year ending >pth May. This was about 15 per cent, of the deaths in the city.