hear the verdict.
They would still be near him. Still later there would be the
pilgrimage to the prison on the Hudson. They would see their
beloved husband and father in striped garb among the scum and
refuse of society, and these weary journeys would be repeated
during long years until his term was over and he returned a broken
and outcast man to what was once a home. Could not this
lamentable issue at least be forestalled? But then there came a
new light into our discussion. One of the students suggested that
he must face the consequences of his wrongdoing, and that one of
the consequences is the very suffering which he inflicts upon the
innocent. He must see that day by day. That would be a part of his
expiation, the purifying fire that may consume the dross of his
nature. And, on the other hand, it would be right for the innocent
to bear, not the guilt, but the consequences of the guilt of the
wrongdoer whom they have loved, whom they still love. For this is
the holy law: that the other whom we love shall be taken into our
self as a part of our very self, that in his joy we shall rejoice as if
his joy were ours, that in his achievements we shall triumph, that in
his humiliations we shall be humbled, and that we shall work out
his redemption by traveling with him the hard road that leads out
of the dark depths upward again to the levels of peace and
reconciliation.

The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from
the rush of life; it depends on facing frankly the thought of death; it
is signalized, especially, by the identification of self with others,
even of the guiltless with the guilty. Spirituality is sometimes
spoken of as if it were a kind of moral luxury, a work of
supererogation, a token of fastidiousness and over-refinement. It is
nothing of the sort. Spirituality is simply morality carried to its
farthest bounds; it is not an airy bauble of the fancy, it is of "the
tough fibre of the human heart."

II. THE SPIRITUAL ATTITUDE TOWARD ONE'S
NEIGHBOR.

Sunday, Nov. 27, 1904.

Those whom we call our neighbors, our fellow-men, may stand to
us in a threefold relation. Some possess gifts far greater than our
own, and in point of development are our superiors; some are on
the same level; and some are much inferior to us. The spiritual
attitude toward our neighbor--though always governed by the
same principle, expresses itself in different ways, according as
our neighbor is related to