The San Francisco call., 1895-11-03

THE SALOON.
Inc public sentiment of the country is
against the saloon. In fact, the saloon has no
defenders. Some think the voting church has
not the power to drive out the saloon, but it
must nave 1t. and must exercise it If this Gov
eminent IS to survive-Hon John G: Wooley,
Christian Endeavorer. at Concord, n. H.
NEW CREATION.
God found Jacob q trickster, but made o new
man OF him: He found Jerry McAuley drunk
ard and made him preacher of righteousness.
The creation of earth, stars and sky not q
greater work than making Jacobs over into
isTaels and Jerry McAuleys into city mission
hamton, n. Y.
MORAL SENTIMENT.
AS long as people have but little moral sensi-
Dll1ty and feeble appreciation of the distinc-
tlons which God makes between right and
wrong, there will be class legislation, despotic
monopolles, political rings, bribery and ballot
box stuffing. A righteous civilization can be
secured and maintained only by people who
love and practice righ ghteousness.-Rev. DR..
Hawthorne, Baptist, Atlanta, "a.
SCIENCE AND RELIGION.
Tn ere is no conflict between religion and
science, none between religion and reason but
there is an lrrepresslble and relentless conflict
between the dogmas of orthodoxy on the one
hand and science and reason on the other. The
surrender OF the one or the other is inevitable.
Can any sane man doubt which must sue
cumb?-Rev. j. E. Roberts, Unitarian, Kansas
City, Mo.
LIFE AND DEATH.
Deatn, with all It's terrors and solomn nifty, Is
not as solemn as life Death is nothing. 1t
cannot add one more sin and it cannot take
one away, but every thought in life either
builds up or tears down character, and charac-
ter determines our future eternity. 1t is the
duties of our life that make it su ublime.-Rey.
John Mitchell, Methodist, Cleveland, Ohio.
THOUGHT.
No man has right to think as he pleases
unless he pleases to think right, for actions are
but the expression of thoughts, and the man
who thinks wrong thoughts will do wrong No
man ever thought without prejudice or bias, as
we are born to 1t and have predictions on
every great subject.-Rev. M. j. McLead, Pres
byterian, Chester, Pa.
ACTIVITY.
For the inactive and lazy there is not place
whereon he can stand at ease. God has not
one inch in his universe whereon lazy man
can stand and claim as his own. The lazy
must beg or starve. God has proclaimed it.
God has no miracles of mama and quails for
those who won't work.-Rev. William B. Leach,
Methodist, Chicago. Ill.
THE TRUE MINISTRY
The true dignity of the ministry is not the
mere being minister, or being clad in the
regalia of the ministry, but in the being chosen
by the Holy Ghost to be the instrument
through which men are converted and souls
saved. A true ministry is a Holy Ghost minis
try, or 1t Is no ministry at an.-Rev. J. D. Herr,
Baptist, Norwich, Conn.
MoNoPoLIEs.
The Attorney-General of this country says
that excepting the manufacturing of stamps
dllu UOlldrS ,tnere is no SuCn tnlng as monopoly
here. Oh, what an error! Does he think the laws
as they read are as they carried out? We
know that monopoly rules our Nation to-day,
and it is our fault that such is the case-Rey
Z. J. kain, Reformed Church, Manayunk, Pa.
THE BIBLE.
The Bible is a counselor and friend. It
should not be abused-it contains too much
that is supremely good. 1t should not be
misused, for the saddest chapters in all history
are due to its misuse. 1t should not be dis
used, for there is no book to replace it. 1t
should s1 be properly used. and the proper use of
God, not Gods beliefs about man.-Rabbi j. L.
Levy, Israelite, Philadelphia, Pa.
LEADERSHIP.
There are two kinds of leadership-that
which draws and that which propels. Perhaps
the former is the more popular, as it is the
more public and apparent. Yet there are
many instances in which the best leader is
not at the front seen and followed by all. The
great men who shape events who control
public affairs and who manage great enter
prises are often not the men appearing most
prominently in the direction of the affairs at
hand-Rev. c. j. Baldwin, Baptist, Troy, N. Y.
THE NEGRO.
The negro should have the chance that
the white man has to accumulate prop
erty and chance to secure the fruits of
his wisdom. He should have the protection of
law in the South to the same extent that the
white man has. In the South to-day the negro
does not have the benefit of presum ption of
innocence-and never did have. To my mind
future for the negro.-Rev. T. A. Noble Con-
gregatfonaltst. Chicago, Ill.
PUNISHMENT.
The punishments inflicted by the State seem
to be arbitrary and capricious, even whimsi.
cal. OF people now in prison convicted of
similar crimes one is serving a sentence of
five years, another OF fifteen and another OF
two. Some Judges are always severe some
are always mild, and some are severe some
times and sometimes mild. l would not like
to be sentenced by hungry Judge, or by one
dyspeptlc, or by one who was about to have
tooth pulled.-Rev. Myron Reed. Independent,
Denver, Colo.
THE SALVATION ARMY.
The Salvation Army deals with individuals
as individuals and not as masses. If salvation
means anyth1ng TO us 1t means everything. 1t
ought to be as natural for us to talk of religion
as of any of the other things we talk of. That
is the way the Salvation Army does. That sort
of out-and-out speaking for God everywhere is
needed because it enforces conhdence.-Dr.
George l. McKelway, Philadelphia, Pa.
CHURCH WORK.
The mission of the church like the mission
of Christ, is directly to the spiritual nature of
man. Get the heart right and the life will be
right If the spiritual nature is right the eth
ical and social life will be correct. Christian
ize the world and you win have civilized it. 1t
is difficult to christianize a goddess civiliza-
ton it is to christianize barbarians.-Rey
George B. Vosburg, Baptist, Boston, Mass.
EARLY PIETY.
God wants men in the flush OF youth, not in
old age, when you have gotten all out of the
world that it can give you, and have nothing
to look forward to but death. That is not the
time to come to Him, 1t is a poor faith that
can only be convinced when it has nothing to
lose, and forswear the pleasures of the world
when one is too cid to enjoy them.-Rev C. NJ.
Boswell, Methodist, Philadelphia, Pa.
KNOWLEDGE
Men are rapidly coming to themselves. We
have seen what man has done with material
things in the last sixty years. We now see
what he can do with mental things; with, if
you please, spiritual things. Man is being re-
vealed to himself on wood and steel and steam
and lightning. He is now turning his atten-
ton to the undiscovered powers and faculties
and privileges of his own soul--Rev. Myron
Reed, Independent, Denver, Colo.
BOSS TWEED
Do not imagine that you can leave God out
OF your life and succeed. You may lay up
wealth and enjoy pleasure, but sooner or later
fire will come from heaven and destroy it.
There was a time when Boss Tweed set at
naught all laws of God and man. He succeeded
wonderfully tor awhile, but the time came
after that, when. stripped of wealth, friends
! and everything else, he died behind the bars of
| cell.-Rev. Jacob Todd, Methodist, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
VICTORY.
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