Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-13

social economy needs a new saving force in it: our religious life needs something 1t does not possess.-Rev. w. F. Slocum, Denver Col.
 Political Platforms.
 The platform of this church is neither republican nor democratic, but it must stand for good government regardless of party, It's Yoice snan be heard in n2
 right, for God and hunanity.. Platfofmss
 arf oea dSs f0 pat Sa9S SPG aOd2 Bs P4sh naiad down by wise and honest men and find it's solidity in It's righteousness. May the | day soon dawn when men shall stand upon platform when they stand by the ballot box instead of walking over the -fickety, rotten old floor of a party.-Rev. CortlaDdt Myers, Baptist. Brooklyn.
 N. Y. -'e, .-
 Heaven in the Bible is used. irs more than one sense. We read of the fowls | or the heaven, meaning the atmosphere; r read of the lights Of heaven, the stars of heaven, meaning the firfnament.' Thel third heaven of the scriptures is Heaven. in its sublimest sense; it is where God
 dwells; it is somewhere beyond this ma terial universe; it is a. place where God l dwells in His infinite and mighty person. ality; it Is where the saints will have ] their eternal home. where they will sing forever the songs of the redeemed.-Rev.
 NJ. Curnick. Lowell Mass.
 Good Wives. The woman who has no higher ambi- tion than simply to be dragged up into society is indeed most pitable crea- ture. What you want. young man, is a l. wife, not toy to play with, a doll to be dressed, an ornament to exhibit, but a help-meet. not simply a help-eat. Many women today who were raised in the kitchen, so to say, vainly imagine that they make fine parlor ornaments. They hax n no thnu dn tn ha looked at and often they are too lazy to do. anything else.-Rev. Morgan A. Pe- -ters, Reformer church, York. Pa. Dancing.
 | It is as natural for a healthy child to dance as it is for lamb to frolic in the fields It is the natural expression of the joy and gladness of life. Every nation, every people, has its own native dances.
 Dancing entered into the religious wor- ship of ancient Hebrews as well as other
 nations There were pure dancers and impure dancers accordingly as the wor- ship was.pure and impure. Our modern dance Is the social dance of our ances- tors, ,.the dance on the village green or in the woodland glades. It is a social fes- tivity and within proper limits 1t Is per fectly unobjectiona ble It is only objec- tionable as it is abused and this is true of all good things.-Rev. Dr. Brundage, Albany, N. Y.
 Sunday Closing.
 The law closing the saloon on Sunday is no hardship on anyone except saloon keepers and drunkards. The state of New York will never pass a law providing for ! Sunday liquor selling. The republicans aare not going to open the saloons on Sun B day In their platform the republicans 3 have declared that they would not pass law opening the saloons on Sunday, ! and all honor be to the republican party for it's action in this regard. The demo- cratic party will promise to do anything, \ but 1t doesn't dare pass law for Sunday 5 opening-it doesn't dare go against the } Catholic churches in this regard.-Rev 1 Thomas Dixon Jr., New York City. Music and Religion.
 The one thing about music is it's har- 1mony, the blending of melodious tones in Eone harmonious whole, the bringing of its tones under thesnatural law. We are 9 born for concord and for peace, to live cnot in discord, but in great harmony Be- fore. the sweet strains of Handel and Haydn were given to the world they were in their souls. You often hear it said that some men do not have an ear for music but there are few who can listen to the real music that. comes from the soul of genius without being moved The single strain of an Easter anthem has saved man from suicide.-Rev. R. F. Holway, Episcopalian. Worcester, Mass
 Theaters.
 The theater as an institution is. in its ownership and management, entirely worldly in its character; that is, 1t is in the hands of men who make no profes- sion of Christianity and who are con- fessedly opposed to all real religion. The managers Of playhouses have no idea of running them in the interest of moral ity Though at times making high pre- tensions of design to foster art and ele- vate the stage, yet the fact is they are after the almighty dollar. and, judged by their fruits-the plays they put on the boards-they propose to secure the coins of the realm by catering to the most de- prayed and vicious clements of human natnre.--Rev. w. c. Kinsey. Newark, N. J.
 Home Rule.
 If nome rule for cities'' is to give us continental Sunday in New York. a Scotch Sunday in Brooklyn and Cana dian Sunday in Rochester and Buffalo, why not, by parity of reasoning. one definition of larceny and murder for Utica and another in Syracuse: one law of divorce for Albany and another for Ogdensburg? I confess that I would rather intrust the destines of New York city to the yoemanry of the state of New York than to leave 1t in the hands of a constituency which Is said to contain a compact body of 50,000 men who can be counted upon to vote as the brewers and distillers command.-Rev William R. Huntington, Episcopalan. New York city.