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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE -v . j The prayer which contains the pe-1 'tltion: "Give us this day our dally bread" Is the prayer which begii.s a itb "Our Father." If God Is ourj Father, wo are brothers. The fatherhood of God Involves the' brotherhood of man. And so a loaf of bread Is behind I the greatest of all creeds and the bst of all religions, the creed that Goel is jour Father, the religion that we are j . brothers. I Bread Is tho staff of life It deil: with primitive hunger It meets uni- venal need. At the verv threshold cf existence the bread question presents itself, and In doing so it announces at the very threshold of existence human 1 brolherhooel. I Brotherhood Is not the product of I evolution It Is not something civilization civili-zation has vvreiught out. It Is essential to civilisation. Its recognition is a ' prerequisite- to progress. God has built 1 kinship Into our blood and announced j the oneness of the race in our earliest 1 hunger Bread taught men thit ih''V could not live j.-lone, and it Is still teaching this earliest lesson of human relations Hunger levels all barriers. It wipes out all distinction. Culture, wealth, position, power, all play out before hunger It is the great commoner. We cannot get awa from the bread question, and so we cannot lay brotherhood brother-hood pcrmanontlv, on the shelf. We may Ignore it for awhile, we may forget it for a season, but the day comes when hunger brings us to our senses, and a slice of bread says; "None of us llveth to himself, and no man elleUi to him. .elf ' The race Is one family, and the world decline? to maintain a solitude. The pallid face against tho pane is your kinsman's. That wan child on the edge of tho slum belongs to your own family. This is what your dally bread says as It lifts on the lips of hunger the old prayi I tther. |