The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-10
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT and PROGRESS
An EpitOme Of Sermons Of the Week
Throughout the Land.

States and Canada by the leaQlng clergy
men, priests, prelates, religious teachers
and professors of the Christian faith. In
every instance the full text has been care
fully read and abbrevIated.]
TOBACCO.
Do not tell me any man is g ruler of himself
who is led around by q cigar like dog with
string.-Rev. Dr.. Bonwell. evangelist, Phila-
UNIVERSAL INTERESTS.
Life is more serious to-day than ever before.
The people on the other side of the world are
our nciphbors Our interests are mutual and
blend together.-Rev. j. NJ. Hutchinson, Bap-
fist, Utica, ~ y.
Many people call Christianity superstition,
But a superstition which makes men better
and leads from vice TO virtue is surely better
than truth that only demonstrates ITSELF
Rev. Peter Clare, Methodist, Minneapolis,
Mimi.
woMANs PLACE.
Home is a woman's place, in subsection to
her husband and it is the grandest place in
the world. These new women are man apes on
the road TO dpgradation.-Rev. p. g. Elson,
evangelist, Bedford, Va.
REAL CHRISTIANS.
We want more real Christians, not so many
make believes II you want 10 lind out what
kind of a Christian man is ask his business
partner. his wife and his next door neigh Dor
Dwight Moody, evangelist, at New Bedford,
Mass
EVIL. SPEECH.
There is need OF higher standard of speech
and thought among our young men. Wicked
ness Is not wit; nor is filth humor 1t was the
beginning of these forms of sins that under
mined the great cities of antiquity.-Rev. G.
NJ. Southgate, Worcester, Wass.
ENVY.
Envy is one of the greatest sins. Persons
frequently hate others because they are sue
cessful. The passion OF envy has dragged
thousands to their graves. 1t caused the death
of Caesar, and because of envy Christ was cruel
tied.-Rev. Wallace Thorp, Christian Church,
Augusta, Ga.
FAMILY ENDEAvoR.
The worlds grandest illustration of the
power of family endeayor is found in the
Beecher family, for no other family ever so in
ticular. and the world as Whole.-Rev. John
Finch, Baptist, Brooklyn, n. Y.
EVOLUTION.
Evolution gives a deathblow to all panaceas,
all cures. 1t takes the conceit out of the
wouldbe reformer. 1t rebukes the social as
well as the medical and the theological bigot.
1t introduces them to endless patience, meas
ureless modesty, divine persistency.-Jenkin
Lloyd Jones, Chicago. Ill.
MORAL COURAGE.
What military courage is 10 the army, what
practical courage is to the statesman, what
physical courage is 10 the man of muscular
proves, so is moral courage to man in all his
religious = and ethical ~, TelationnshiP; Moral
Locke, Methodist, Portland, Or.
LYNCH LAW.
Lynch law and mob rule are sin before God,
a disgrace to any civilization, a crime against
humanity, and they who resort 10 it for re-
venge betray the instincts of the savage brute
and stamp themselves in the eyes of civilized
people as miserable cowards.-Rey. J. B. Col
bert, Washington, D. c.
CIVIL SERVICE.
The administration of the Government
should be conducted on business principles
Men should receive appointments to office not
for what they have done for q party, but what
they can do for the state. a man who has
done his work well should be continued in Of
| fice.-Rev. DR.. Halsey, Baptist, Oswego, n. Y.
THE MODERN PREACHER.
The minister of Christ to-day is every inch a
man, inside and outside, every inch Christ
like man, man among men, who is respected
for his worth and not Tor his clothes and not
even for his office. If in any case he does not
answer this description, then he is the servant
of some other master.-Rev. W. II. Moore, Pres
byterian, Doylestown, Pa.
MIXED MARRIAGES.
Mixed marriages often destroy the happiness
of q home. Mixed, unfortunate marriages are
in opposition to the moral well-being of chill
dren. An unequal marriage is an impeachment
in the way of Christian training. If father and
mother are both religious there is splendid
combination to train the youth. Be careful in
the choice of your life partner.-Rev. c. H.
Fitzwilliam, Baptist, Pittsburg, Pa.
SORROW.
We have not appreciated the touch of tears
and the transforming power of trouble. AS
trouble makes us kindred TO many we become
kindred to him who is the ''man of sorrow"
Sorrow, after all, is experience. The expe-
rience of Jesus filed the disciples with sorrow,
but he said he became of worth to them as
his life broadened out into these things.-Rev.
John Rusk, Militant Church, Chicago, Ill.
THE UNIVERSE.
The universe is the only book God ever wrote.
1t needs no revision. 1t implies no chosen peo-
pie. It admits of no partial God. 1t can be
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revelation of the universal God. Every man
that grinds out a truth is inspired. Every man
that sees truth and tells it is prophet sent
of God.-Rev. J. E. Roberts, Unitarian, Kansas
City, Mo.
BETTING.
The difference between the sport at the races
who backs the bay horse against the field for
$4,000 and the laughing lady in the reserved
seat who wagers box of candy against pair
of gloves that the bay horse will come under
the wire first is difference only in degree. not
In kind. Both bet, but one bets more than the
other.-Rev. w. A. Stanton, Baptist, Pittsburg,
Pa.
THE PLEDGE OF ABSTINENCE.
The safest remedy against intemperance is
the pledge of total abstinence. The best
weapon against intemperance the best wea pom
against the saloon is the pledge of total absti-
nence. There is no shame in the pledge. 1t is
a badge OF honor. as il is protection of man.
hood. IL appeals not TO the drunkard so much
as to the man who does not need it-Father
Thomas J. Conaty, Roman Catholic, Worcester,
Mass.
MARRIAGE.
Impress upon the people the importance of
marriage. The number of single men is alarm
| ingly on the increase. Something must be
| done, and the man should share the punis h.
| ment and disgrace that is melted out to the
| unfortunate woman. Let US preserve the
| sanctity of the home, the church, the school,
| incorporate into the body polite the i'm
! portance of universal law of reform for the
social evil. II. Craig, Allegheny, Pa.
AMERIcANIsM.
The need of the hour is the maintenance of
all that is distinctly and pre-eminently true to
| the American idea. The spirit of patriotism
and loyalty cannot well obtain in the midst of
those who remain un-American in thought
am bition, education and desire. Immigrants
should be compelled to burn their ships be
hind them and lay aside the evils of countries
from which they come.-Rev. F. T. D. Buckley,
Methodist, Wheeling, w. Va.
PERSONAL DEVIL.
I believe in q personal God one who is
everywhere and all powerful. also believe in
a personal devil who is fighting for the mas
terry. In these latter days it is as important TO
believe in the existence of personal devil as
in per sonal God. for if man does not believe
in the one who brought evil into the world ne
is not able to struggle against eyil.-Rey. T. G.
Warner, Knoxville. Tenn.