undertaking, as it certainly does for the successful accomplishment,
of all deeds of brotherly kindness and sympathy, bringing help and
solace to the weak and the wearied, liberty to the captives, and
hope to the despairing.

I do not believe that Christian men have any business to draw swords
now. Abram is in that respect the Old Testament type of a God-
fearing hero, with the actual sword in his hands. The New Testament
type of a Christian warrior without a sword is not one jot less, but
more, heroic. The form of sympathy, help, and 'public spirit' which
the 'man from the other side' displayed is worse than an anachronism
now in the light of Christ's law. It is a contradiction. But the
spirit which breathed through Abram's conduct should be ours. We are
bound to 'seek the peace of the city' where we dwell as strangers
and pilgrims, avoiding no duty of sympathy and help, but by prompt,
heroic, self-forgetting service to all the needy, sorrowful, and
oppressed, building up such characters for ourselves that fugitives
and desperate men shall instinctively turn to men from the other
side for that help which, they know full well, the men of the
country are too selfish or cowardly to give.

May I venture to suggest yet another and very different application
of this name? To the aboriginal inhabitants of heaven, the angels
that kept their first estate, redeemed men are possessors of a
unique experience; and are the 'men from the other side.' They who
entered on their pilgrimage through the Red Sea of conversion, pass
out of it through the Jordan of death. They who become Christ's, by
the great change of yielding their hearts to Him, and who live here
as pilgrims and sojourners, pass dryshod through the stream into His
presence. And there they who have always dwelt in the sunny