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 that it  overstep  just  bounds,  and  hence  the  Saviour by His  practice  taught  self-sacrifice  and  brings  self-love  into  His  teaching  only  by  implication. But, secondly, the  love  of  our  neighbors  He  explicitly inculcates, for  it  does  not  come  to  us  by  nature  to deal  justly  by  all  men. To live  justly  in  this  world is to  love  our  neighbor  as  ourselves,  and  to  do  to  him as we  would  wish  to  be  done  by. One might  say that it  was  the  violation  of  this  command  that caused the  fall  of  man,  for  Adam,  had  he  wished  to live  for  others,  would  have  reached  for  the  fruit  of the  tree  of  life;  but  in  partaking  of  the  fruit  of  the tree of  knowledge  he  betrayed  his  inordinately  selfish ambition  to  be  as  God  and  to  have  others  live for him. What true  sons  of  Adam  we  are! How few of  us  really  and  practically  love  our  fellowmen as we  love  ourselves! What a  rare  thing  it  is  to  find a man  who  realizes  that  the  most  precious  love,  the love most  certain  of  reward,  is  not  that  which  comes to, but  that  which  goes  out  from  him;  that  it  is  more blessed to  give  than  to  receive,  to  love  than  to  be loved! If our  horse  or  ox  fall  into  a  pit,  how  strenuously we  labor  to  extricate  it;  if  we  lose  a  coin,  how we search  and  sweep  to  find  it,  but  when  a  neighbor's soul  is  in  need,  or  dying,  or  dead,  we  coolly  ask: " Am  I  my  brother's  keeper?  "  And  if  we  love  our relatives and  friends  alone,  what  thanks  to  us? Even the heathens  do  as  much. " But  I  say  to  you,"  says Christ, "love  your  enemies,  do  good  to  them  that hate  you,  and  pray  for  them  that  persecute  you." Like good  St.  Stephen  we  should  send  back  a