“And she answered me, ‘O I do not associate with any of the women in this neighborhood—only one. The rest all belong to the newly rich. The lady across the street is a member of the exclusive Idlaway Club and she is going to get me a membership.’

“I went into a home of one very poor, but which I found neat, clean, bare and beautiful with a radiance. A patient woman with worn fingers dwelt there. I did not need to ask if she loved her neighbors. I saw a beautiful blue light about her, and I knew. Her life had been hard, very hard; but to no one and of no one did she speak an unkind word. And the beautiful blue light filled her home and everyone loved her.

“I went into school and church, into theatre and club, into store and office, all of the places where humankind congregate and mingle with their fellows; but everywhere I found selfishness and greed. I found envy, jealousy, slander, no understanding that life is a school and each is here learning lessons of Love and Brotherhood. The greatest need in the world today is Love, but only here and there was I welcomed. There is little leaven in the mass, but great was the mass. What did you find, Brotherhood?”

“He replied, ‘Even as you, I found little leaven of brotherhood. I went into a large Eastern city. I talked to a kindly, affable appearing gentleman. I said to him, ‘Do you believe in brotherly love?’

“He replied, ‘Oh yes, I belong to the Addlepate Club and all the other members are as brothers to me. We would do anything for each other.’

“ ‘But,’ I asked, ‘how about the man who fires your furnace? Did you sympathize with him when his wife died last week?’