The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT and PROGRESS
An EpitOmG Of the Sermons of the Week
Throughout the Land.

Following is summary of the principal
sermons delivered III 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:
THE PEssIMIsT.
have no use for a man with long face.
Sour Christians always drive away converts
and hinder the free course of the gospel.-Rey.
d. L. Moody, evangelist, at Atlanta, Ga.
LIBERTY.
Government has no right to prescribe my
food, 10 dictate my sleep, to command my
occupation or to say my Gay of rest shall be
Sunday.-Rabbi Moses Jacobson, Youngstown,
Ohio.
SCANDAL.
The scandal-monger is person to be heartily
despised by all classes, aud the person whe
repeats scandal is even worse than thief or
murderer.-Rev. Dr. Ferry, Methodist, Win
nipeg, Manitoba.
Let me control the press of the land, and
care not what is taught in the schools, in the
church or in the books of the public library
Rev. NJ. H. Harris, Universalist Reading, Pa.
ARMENIA.
The United States is the proper Government
TO stop the prosecutions in Armenia and to say
TO the Turk, in the name Of Christ and hui
manity, This persecution must have an
end" Rev. c. L. Smith, EpiScopalian5 Balti-
more Md.
ELooUENCE.
This world cannot be won by the eloouence
OF preachers. God pity the church whose chief
ambition is en- eloquent preacher, for such a
church is on the way TO the cemetery-Rev. K.
A. George, CongregationaliSt, Cleveland Ohio.
WOMAN.
A true woman has wonderful humility She
was found first at the cross and last at the
sepuicher. She has greater rights than king
and a cohort of angels is always lowering near
her.-Rev. 4. H. Robins, Presbyterian, Baiti-
more, Md.
THE PRoDIGAL DAUGHTER.
There are prodigal daughters we'll as prodi-
gal sons Sin never seems so hellish as when it
is leading young women astray. Young women
should refuse 10 attend the unreformed thea
ter and should not be seen in ballrooms.-Rev
NJ. Y. Boyard, Methodist, Utica, NY.
STATISTICS.
1t costs S35 100000 to keep the lawyers;
100000 TO keep the criminals; $40 900 900
to keep The dogs aud nearly 81 100000 TO keep
saloons, while it costs only st, 900 600 to keen
the preachers.-Rey. John W. Miles, Methodist
Welliugford, Conn.
sENSATIoNALIsM.
Sensational preaching is valuable 1t draws
crowds. II you want crowds you can get
them: The newspaper thrives on sense
tionalism. That is ITS great stronghold.
Such preaching stimulates the imagination
and feelings, two important factors in vital
and practical religion and honest living 1t
often succeeds when other preaching fails.
H. N. j
HEALERs.
For ages our physicians have doctored rs as
il we were wheelbarrows that needed repair
ing. and clergymen have preached as il we
were spirits. The truth is, we are both body
and mind; the two suffer together and what
God Joined together let no man put asunder-
Rev. II. o. Rowlands, Baptist, Lincoln, Nebr.
UNITARIANIsM
The Unitarian church honors reason and
conscience as means OF the development of
STA ndS for frils
education and morality as does no other
church in the world, because in others these
are limited by special church rituals. 1t
teaches the brotherhood of man and the father
hood OF God.-Rev. Napoleon Hoagland, Proyi-
dence, r. |.
DOUBT.
We live in an age OF almost universal douht
The spirit OF agnoSticism is abroad everywhere
in philosophy, in natural science, in anthro-
pology, in theology. But there are two points
about which there can be, about which there
Is no dou bt, VIZ the uncertainty of human life
and the certainty OF death.-Rev. Father Sta
gerwald, Catholic, Greensburg, Ind.
RELIGION AND BUSINESS.
A man cannot concentrate his life to a
worldly motive and be in sympathy with God
To be a Christian he must be actuated by the
divine impulse of God IN all the occupations
and pursuits os life. He cannot be man en-
tirely of the world in business and on Sunday
be man of God.-Rev. John II. Strong, Bap-
tist, Cincinnati, Ohio.
GOOD BOOKS.
Great care should be exercised in the choice
of books. Life is too short 10 read a hundredth
part of the works now teeming from the press
Much OF the cheap literature Ior sale on our
bookstands is demoralizing and devilish. The
mind, like the body, requires for its growth
substantial food and healthful exercise.-Rev.
DR.. Haroourt, Methodist. Baltimore, Nd.
LAWYERS.
There Is no profession more needed in the
nature of things than that of law. As pro-
fession, think, perhaps, that law is the least