The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-24
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PROGRESS
An Epitome Of Sermons Of the Week
Throughout the Land.

Following is summary of the principal
sermons delivered in the United States
and Canada by the leading clergymen,
priests, prelates, religious teachers and
professors of the Christian faith. In every
instance the full text has been carefully
read and Abbreviated:
INTELLIGENCE.
Norman has the right in this day and land to
be knownothing. Ignorance is crime, II
not high treason.-Rev. G. r. Robbins, Baptist,
Cincinnati OHIO.
SELF-coNTRoL.
Human freedom rests on self-government. II
one man can't control himself 20, 600, 900 men
can't. Seventy million times nothing is sui
nothing.-Rev. Lyman Abbott, Brooklyn, n. Y.
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
would rather have high tax and high NOR
ality than low tax and low morality. l prefer
crooked streets and straight men to straight
streets and crooked men.-Rev Thomas J. VII
lers, Baptist, Syracuse, N Y
SENSATIONAL PREACHERS.
I think some ministers who consume each
Sabbath in saying some strange or sensational
things about matters not connected win sal
walton do a horrible act. The pulpit Is for the
word of Godfrey. w. ii. McMlIIan, fresDyter-
ian, Allegheny, Pa.
PERSONAL LIBERTY.
Personal liberty is delusive cry, for when
pressed to its logical conclusion 1t means that
the wish of the individual Is to be taken In
Rev. Henry Baker, Methodist, Newark, n. j.
MARRIAGE.
In choosing wife choose Christian, intel
| ligent and educated woman. God help the
| She will be milestone around his neck all the
rest OF his life.-Rev. Nathan E. Wood, Baptist,
| Boston, Mass.
| sELFIsHNEss.
According to Jesus Christ, the object of this
| life is not self-happiness, it is self-sacrihce
| You show me the man who cares only for him.
cnlf oy,d nChD +h1r
| BILE and shriveled wretch that ereeps on Gods
footstooL-Rev. W. H. Pearce, Scranton, Pa.
THE LABOR MARKET.
! Our labor market is already overcrowded
Thousands OF men are out OF work Yet each
! come to this country to compete with our
| already unemployed or poorly employed labor
and deepen the struggle for existence.-Rev.
| r. A. White, Universalist, Chicago, Ill.
CHARITY.
| With the increasing prosperity of our people
| there comes an extra obligation, a responsible
| ity. 1t is the responsibility of charity. Charity
| must go alongside OF wealth and prosperity.
| Out of what we earn and get there can be
something laid by each year for some body else.
! Rev. William H. OConnell, Catholic, Boston,
| Mass.
Many of our cities have outstripped Sodom
and Gomorrah, and yet the mercy of our Lord
allows them to continue. They are more cor
| rupt than Nineveh, Babylon or Rome and I'M
cities viii share the fate of those of old.-Rey.
Levi Bird, Auburn, n. y.
CHRISTIAN CHARITY.
Plato was great man, but show me his asy-
lum for the blind. Show me Voltaire's infrm-
airy for the feehle-minded. Show me Tom
Paine's retreat for the homeless. Show me"
Colonel IngersolPs home for incurables. You
cannot do il; you will have to look to Chris
tians for those things.-Rev. George d. Board
| man, Baptist, Philadelphia, Pa.
JEKYLIS AND HYDEs
| man is like a pendulum; he can swing
from the gates OF heaven to those of hell in less
than two minu ties. He may be kind, loving
and gentle one moment, and some little thing
may go wong and make perfect demon of
| him in less than thirty seconds.-Rev. DR.. Os-
| from, Lutheran. Louisville, Ky.
woMANHooD.
| girl must grow into her womanhood like a
! flower, and cannot be hammered and chiseled
| into shape ike a boy. She must be reared
gently and tenderly into that character which
the same light that shone on that of the
mother of Jesus. = Rev. James B. Kenyon,
Methodist. Syracuse, n. Y.
INDIA.
Many people have the idea that the inhabit-
ants of India barbarous and uncivilized
Never q greater mi|take. India is the home of
the Sanskrit tongue, the parent OF all other
languages. Many of the higher classes speak
English with beautiful accent. India is the
home of every deep philosophy.-Rev. DR..
John scudder, Dutch Reformed Church, syrs-
CHURCHES AND SALOONS.
Church membership and citizenship do not
mean the same thing. If l were not a church
member would be equally as responsible as a
citizen. Wickedness does not lessen RESPONSE
bility. 1t is the duty of all citizens with tie
right of ballot to rid he county of the saloons
and build up the church.-Rev. S. S. Wood
ward, Baptist Chester, Pa.
GROWTH OF CHRISTIANITY.
The church during the last hundred years
has brought forth more children and adopted
more orphans and is giving them diviner food
than in any other one or five centuries of her
life. see her now the glorious mother, the
holy Madonna OF nations, pursuing her way
across the globe, accompanied by her children
who have risen up to call her blessed.-Rev.
Charles F. Goss, Presbyterian, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Japan affords specially fruitful field for a
liberal Interpretation of Christianity. The
people are alert, intelligent, receptive. The
war has been carried on through the influences
which have come into the land from Christian
nations; and while there is a strong reliance
on the native genius, and belief that a
national faith can be evolved, yet there is q
readiness to adopt western customs and west
ern ideas.-Rev DR.. Gunnison, Universalist.
Worcester, Mass.
Many have stormed at the bulwark of faith,
the Bible, and have assaiIed abuse in the
church aud have ridiculed Christianity and
miracles, but none has come forward to assail
| the goodness and purity of Jesus. He is the
| faultless, the Incompatible man-the miracle
| of miracles; and this not from Indifferent
| friends, but from skeptics and infidels alike,
| They have found in him nofault.-Rey f. T. D.
| Buckley, Methodist, Wheeling, W. Va.
EVIL.
No personal devil is necessary to explain the
presence OF evil in the world. Evil and wrong
are simply moral vacuum, as death is the alb
sence OF life and cold of heat Evil is not
direct creation: il is not positive, and il has
no part in creation. Good is the positive ee-
ment the omnipcteDt. and therefore this is a
good world ana this life is worth living.-Rev.
J. g. Jaynes, Unitarian Boston, Mass.
EXTREMISTS
The extremist originates, the conservative
perpetuates; the extremist reforms, the con-
sentative preserves; the extremist is power,
the conservative is control; the extremist IL
enthusiasm, the conservative is Judgment; the
extremist lives in the future, the conservative
lives in the past; the extremist is tempted 10
optimism, the conservative is tempted TO pes
simism; the extremist is in danger OF becon-
ing fanatic, the conservative is in danger OF
becoming foSsil.-Rev. James /. Vance, Pres
byterian, Nashville, Tenn.
AGNosTTCISM.
The days of agnosticism are numbered, for
already the method of science is being success