Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-15
PULPIT GEMS.


tellectual lie To prav well is to
study wcll.-Prest. J. %. Rankin. How
ard University
II thefe is one lesson more clear
.nan anolhoI y is that God means for
humanity q life Of e.owth.-ReY. D. T.
H. Ward Baltimore
lhere was more righteous family
government there would be less need
Oh CITY iEoyenmcnr. Good fathers
would save tho cost OF city fathers
Rev. John FOX, B-ook.1n.
Inc Church OF Goo exists that IL may
be doing good IN the world. and Chris
uans should always bear in mind the
mission OF Tie church.-Rey. Howard
Wayne Smith, Baltimore.
While high thinking does not always
prevent low living, it is also true that
there can be no high and holy living
without high and holy thinking.-Rev.
James Mcleod, Scranton.
Since Christ has assembled into the
spiritual life, there is no such thing as
death; it is simply transition. He
lives, and all who belive in Him live
Rev. William Lloyd New York.
Some prayers are forbidden. God
has His plans. and in our blindness
we ask amiss. and when refused we
grow persistent God answers for our
best.-Rey. L. NJ. Zimmerman, Balti-
more.
Positive goodness is much higher
than negative goodness. A man may
have done no one harm. but but he is
to be judged by whether he has made
any one sing for joy-Rev. Charles T.
Weitzel, Brooklyn
Favoring circumstances are not the
key to unlock the doors of success. In
Joseph's case 1t was conscientious in
dustry and the conscientious fulfill
ment Of the trusts imposed upon him.
Rev. Thomas Van Ness, Boston.
The minister of wealth may be one
of the most benign. Large wealth may
be consecrated in Christ's name to hui
mainly and thus effect untold good.
In its right use gold is a glorious thing.
Rev. George A. Gordon, Boston.
Whatever unity We may obtain, it
must be a unity i'm diversity. May
there not be a spiritual unity among US
now, an Observation-Disclosures fellow
ship, through the Christian Endeavor
movement?-Canon j. b. Richardson,
London, Ont.
The two great forces which combine
for results and issue In successes are
prayer and work. The praying soul
will not supply the deficiencies Of the
idle hand; nor will the busy hand met
all the necessities of the praying soul.
Rev. James w Gll2nd. Brooklyn.
The religion of the child in the faith
er's house Is true culture. Make your
mind an honor to your Father in its in
telligence and knowledge and wisdom.
Make your soul an honor to your Father
in its purity and justice and goodness.
Rev. R. Heber Newton, New York.
The teachings OF Jesus Christ reach
not only in the domain of religion, but
into politics, economies. sociology, and,
indeed, into every Geld Of human learn
ing, in order that out of the runis Of a
race may arise a humanity refined and
perfected, OF which the Christ Himself
is the highest type Rev. Peter Ainslie,
Baltimore.
The life Of depression is not Chris
tan, and it is no, really life. A man
comes here and sings My Life Flows
on in Endless Song and then he goes
out and growls at everybody and every
thing. Endless \ song indeed! Give
me something better and ! will take it,
Peploe, London, ing.
Grievous as the sins Of our day are,
there IS a noble spirit Of earnest thought,
of universal inquiry, Of manly independ-
ence and heroic enterpuse-a spirit like
that which brooded over the primeval
chaos. or the soul of spring heaving un-
der the dissolutions and melting SHOWS
of winter-Rev. c. ii. McAnney larry
town, n. Y.
1t is not simply abstcntion from
wrong that human beings need in order
to live well on our earth to-day. II Is
enthusiasm for righteousness; 1t is
mighty self-denial and heroic sacrifice;
not innocence. but nobility; not main
tenance upon present moral levels, but
/ inspiration and power 10 soar TO the
heights.-Prest i. Benjamin Andrews,
Providence.
If were 10 offer a definition Of char
ity it would be this: The true end OF
man is perfection Charity consists OF
the love of the perfect IN orr neighbor,
and in all those acts that are inspired
! by that love" II we love the perfect IN
our neighbor, We shall be aroused TO re-
move all those obstacles that prevent
him from attaining his end.-Prof. Felix
Adler New York.
A temptation determinedly routed viii
only return with weakened force against
a strengthened enemy: but a temptation
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