The San Francisco call., 1895-10-14
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PROGRESS
An EpitOme Of Sermons of the Week
Beyond the Rockies.

Beyond the Rockies.
Following is summary of the principal SER
mons recently delivered in the United States
and Canada by the leading clergymen, priests,
preIates religious teachers and professors of
the Christian faith. In every instance the full
text has been carefully read and abbreviated.
HEAVEN
Heaven, i'll the Bible, is used in more than
one sense We read of the fowls of the heaven,
meaning the atmosphere; read OF the lights OF
heaven the stars OF heaven, meaning the
| tirnament The third heaven OF the Scrip
lures is heaven in its sublimest sense-it is
where God dwells. 1t is somewhere beyond
this material universe; it is place where God
dwells in his infinite and mighty personality;
it is where the saints will have their eternal
home; where they will sing forever the songs
of the redeemed.-Rev. NJ. Curniek, Methodist,
RoWel, Mass.
The woman that has no higher ambition than
simply to be dragged up into society is, indeed,
a most pitiable creature. WhaI you want,
young man, in q wife is not toy TO play with,
a doh to be dressed, an ornament 70 be ex-
hibited, but helpmate, not simply help eat
Many women to-day, who were reared IN the
kitchen so to say, vainly imagine thaI they
make fine parlor ornaments. Ihey In9y,od 4are ot
an idea that they were made to be looked at,
and often they are too lazy to DO anythlng
else.-Rev. Morgan A. Peters, Reformed Chureh'
York, Pa.
The platform of this church is neither Re-
publican nor Democratic, but 1t must stand Ior
good government and principle regardless OF
party. Its voice shall be heard in no unmls-
taxable sound for the truth and right, for Goo
and humanity. Platforms are made to stand
upon. Every plank in a political platform
should be nailed down by wise and honest men
and find its solidity in its righteousness; May
the day soon dawn when men shall stand upon
platform when they stand by the baIlot-ooX,
instead of walking over the rickety, rotten old
floor Of a party-Rey. Cortlandt Myers, Bap-
tist, Brooklyn, N. Y.
SUNDAY CLOSING.
The law closing saloons on Sunday is no
hardship on any one except saloon-keepers
and drunkards. The State of New York will
never pass a law providing for Sunday liquor
selling. The Republicans are not going to
open the saloons on Sunday. In their plat
form the Republicans have declared that they
would not pass law opening the saloon on
Sunday, and all honor be TO the Republican
party for its action in this regard.
The Democratic party will promise to do any
opening-it doesn't dare go against the Cath
olic churches in that regard,-Rev. Thomas
Dixon Jr., New York City.
MUSIC AND RELIGION.
The one thing about music is it's harmony,
the blending OF melodious tones in one har-
monious whole, the bringing OF its tones under
the natural law. We are born for concord and
for peace to live, not in discord, but in perfect
harmony. Before the sweet strains of Handel
and Haydn were given to the world they were
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 be-
ing moved. The single strain OF an Easter an
them has saved man from suicide.-Rev. r.
F. Holway, Episeopalian, Worcester, Mass.
DANCING.
1t is as natural for healthy child to dance
as it is for lamb to frolic in the fields. 1t is
the natural expression of the joy and gladness
of life. Every nation, every people had its own
native dances Dancing entered into the re-
ligious worship of ancient Hebrews well 8.
other nations. There were pure dances and
impure dances accordingly rs the worship was
pure and impure. Our modern dance is the
social dance of our ancestors; the dance on the
village green or in the woodland glades. 1t is
a social festivity, and within proper limits it
tionable ss it is abused, and this is true of all
good things.-ReY. DR.. Brundage, Albany, n. Y.
INFIDELs
Infidels sometimes say that the milk of hu-
man kindness runs through their veins, but
no college has ever received an endowment
from an infidel, for Girard was not an infidel,
and, although he prohibited the entrance Of
preachers OF the gospel into the college which
| he endowed, he desired the trustees OF the col
| lege to have the students instructed from the
| best books of morals. The trustees unani-
mously decided upon the Bible as being the
| best book of morals and it is used in the col
| lege. The Bible was not mentioned in the
other charitable institution was ever endowed
by an infdeI, but churches OF all denomiua-
tions have these institutions and care for
them.-Rev. L. S. Roder, Methodist, Jackson
vile, Fla.
DIR. PARKHURsT,
| The New York divine who has become so
| conspicuous throughout the world for the
| heroism of his efforts to release the grasp of
| the Tammany sachem undertook his work in
precisely the spirit which animated David
| against Goliath. He saw in the great giant
| representative of evil and believed in the pos
| sible supremacy of virtue, and he recognized in
! the defiant challenge, ''Whet are you going to
| do about it?' q challenge not only to the we'll
! meaning people of New York, but he recog-
| niZed that the truth was challenged, nay, that
| the Jehovah himself was challenged, and sub
| m1ssiye agents, yielding themselves to the
| Lords command, might, with even so simple
| weapon as paper ballot, fling defiance to the
| foe and cause a stampede among the hosts who
had been following their champlOn.-Rev. A.
q, Conrad, Worcester, Mass.
NATIONAL PERIIS.
There is an apparent lack of American inde-
pendence. We submit to things that our
fathers would have scorned to endure. For
eigners control our monetary existence. Our
fathers in the days of the Revolution bare
footed and barebacked defed all the powers of
Europe and dictated their own financial policy.
They were thereby enabled to establish gov
ernment OF the people, the credit of which was
as good as the credit of any nation in the
world-as good as specie. Now we are TO-
100000 strong. The country is girdled with
steel and bounded with cable lines so that
every pulsation of sentiment is known and
felt from one end of the country to the other.
Our country is the grandest country God has
ever given to any people, and yet we, the
American people. sit supinely by and suffer
our financial policy to be mapped out and con-
trOlled by foreigners and ddisbelievers.-Rev. II.
5. Williams, Presbyterian, Memphis, Tenn.