The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
dore Vogt, the director, is anxious to have
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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PROGRESS
An EpitOme Of Sermons Of the Week
Throughout the Land.

Following is a summary of the principal
sermons recently delivered in the United
States and Canada by the leading clergy
men, priests. prelates. religious teachers
and professors of the Christian faith. In
every instance the full text has been care
fully read and abbreviated.
FEMALE SUFFRAGE.
believe that ninety mine hundredths of the
opposition to female suffrage comes not from
men, but from the women themselves.-Rev.
Frank Talmage, Pittsburg, Pa.
GENTLEMAN.
No matter how coarse man may be treat
him with all the courtesy due a gentleman
anc it will help to make him one.-Rev. E. E.
Davidson, evangelist, St. Paul, Mimi.
JEWS
Many think that the Jews are narrow and
exclusive people. This is mistake that springs
from their ignorance. To be Jew means to be
broad, generous, whole-souled man.-Rabbl
A. S. Isaacs, Newburgh, N. y.
CHRIST AND BUSINESS.
There has been violent attempt to crowd
Jesus Christ out of business Men tell us that
business is business and religion is religion.
Butbusiness is christianity and christianity is
business.-Rev. DR.. Osbrom, Baptist, Louis
vile, KY.
MANHOOD.
To buy q man in the slave market is to make
him but half man; but to buy mans soul
in the conscience market is to degrade him
from manhood altogether.-Rev. A. G. Ludlow.
Presbyterian, Cleveland, Ohio.
SOCIETY.
Society has damned more souls than any
thing else. Young people say they must go
into society. Then they stay there for while
and take ticket straight for hell, and they go
there direct-Rev. DR.. Stanton. Augusta, Ga.
GOLDEN CALVES.
There are golden calves in our Landscape
cially three "American gods''-Which may not
belong entirely to America, but they are wor-
earth. The "gods" are wealth, wine and
power-Rev. James Mcleod, Presbyterian,
Scranton, Pa.
CoRNERsToNEs.
The schools, the Bible and the Sabbath are
the cornerstones of the Nations superstructure
which must be preserved by the American
people. The saloon power must go down, the
Sabbath of the Lord God must and will stand
Rev. ]. R. Thompson, Presbyterian. Newburgh,
Ny.
NEW BRAINS.
Whether men need and can get new brains
remains to be seen. That they do need and
can get new heart and new spirit has been
demonstrated over and over again in the
changed lives of converted men.-Rev. NJ. j.
Eckels. Presbyterian, Philadelphia, Pa.
THE BIBLE
A great many people are better informed on
what other people say of the Bible than on what
the Bible says itself. TIL should not be SO. The
Bible should be read more universally. 1t
should he consulted as the standard of author
ity, and every man should consult it for him.
self.-Rev. F. L. Patton, Princeton College.
New Jersey.
THE UNDERTow.
The one great danger, in which all other
dangers are comprised. is the general tide that
sweeps downward, the steady current of vice
moving on toward perdition with all those
who are caught in its whiIling eddies. Even
the stanchest men in the church are not proof
against 1t. Young man, beware of the under
tow.-Rev. Theo. L. Cuyler, Brooklyn, N. Y.
MEN OF TRUTH.
The men who are wanted are men who de-
sire to know the truth, no matter what it costs,
in politics, in business, in religion Such men
stand God-approved, no matter what the world
say. Such men are wanted everywhere. Can
ada wants man as Premier who will know
the truth ard defend it at all odds.-Rev.
James w. Pedley, Congregationalist, Winni-
peg, Manitoba.
SOCIETY WOMEN.
pity man who gets mere society woman
as his wife, unless he be cosmeticized dude,
in which case the marriage serves them both
right. l am not a cynic, but must believe
that the woman who gets her education at the
feet of the goddess OF fashionable society will
be failure as a true woman and faithful
wife.-Rev w. H. C. Temple, Congregational
ist, Seattle, Wash.