T. 26. IX. 1 – 3. Jesus: “Think just how holy you must be, you from whom the Voice for God calls lovingly unto your brother, that you may wake in him the Voice that answers to your call! And think how holy he must be, when in him sleeps your own salvation, with his freedom joined!
However much you might wish your brother be condemned, remember, God is in him. And never will you know He is in you as well, while you attack His chosen home, and battle with His host, your brother!
Regard your brother gently. Look with loving eyes on him who carries Christ within him, that you may behold his glory and rejoice that Heaven is not separate from you!
Is it too much to ask a little trust for him who carries Christ to you, that you may be forgiven all your sins, and left without a single one you cherish still? Forget not that a shadow held between your brother and yourself obscures the face of Christ in him and the memory of God from you. Would you trade Them for an ancient hate?
The ground whereon you stand is holy ground because of Them, Who, standing there with you, have blessed it with Their innocence and peace. The blood of hatred fades to let the grass grow green again, and let the lovely flowers blossom white and sparkling in the summer sun. What was a place of death has now become a living temple in a world of light, because of Them, the Christ in your brother, and your loving Father. It is Their Presence which has lifted holiness again to take its ancient place upon an ancient throne.
Because of Them, have miracles sprung up like grass and flowers growing on the barren ground that hate had scorched and rendered desolate. What hate has wrought, have They undone.
Now you stand on ground so holy, that Heaven leans to join with it and make it like itself. The shadow of an ancient hate has gone, and all the blight and withering have passed forever from the land where They have come.”