The desire of all nations has been for the betterment of human conditions. When this desire has been interpreted selfishly and the few have sought their welfare at the expense of the many there has followed the overthrow of the nation. The world is full of graves where plutocracies and oligarchies lie buried. Not by separating men, but by lifting the low to union with the best can humanity be saved from its perpetual dying, which made the poet question," Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, where are they?"
The desire for a better condition has shown itself in monarchy and hierarchy, but here, also, by separating man. It has been assumed that humanity was represented by men only, and women have been deprived in various ways of human rights because of sex-distinction. Where the English tongue, the language of liberty, is spoken, it is becoming gradually understood that true humanhood must include womanhood and manhood as one. The efforts to-day to secure cessation of injustice to women, and the proclamation of their human rights are evidences of this thought. A recent writer made one of his characters indicate the union of thought-elements necessary in righteous judgment when he said; 'Thou shalt judge with the mind of twelve men, and the heart of one woman." Justice alone may punish crime; Mercy alone may be sentimental over the criminal but Justice and Mercy united will destroy the evil and reform the doer of it.
The regeneration of the world, the revelation of godlikeness through man, cannot come without completed understanding of Truth. Only in the Christ-consciousness can we be complete, and therein male and female are one. It has often been noted how Jesus manifested the tenderness and holiness of womanhood as well as the righteousness and strength of manhood. Yet his revelation to us was only of the Fatherhood of God. This day has come to us the counterpart revelation of the Motherhood of God, so that the vision of the singer is realized; and, in our understanding,
