The San Francisco call., 1895-12-15
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT and PROGRESS
An Epitome Of Sermons Of the Week
Throughout the Land.

OtdlcS anu Sdudud ny luC iCouihS SiOiSy -
men, priests. prelates, religious teachers
and professors of the Christian faith. In
every instance the full text has been
carefully read and abbrevlated:
LOVE.
Love cannot be self-centered. 1t must seek
the welfare of others The heart that truly
loves cannot be wholly selfish.-Rev Harvey
Hostetler, Sioux City. Iowa.
SOCIAL BOSSES.
There are many social bosses as well as
political bosses. The social boss touches the
button and the rest of the community will
initiate her.-Rev. DR.. Fishburn, Presby terian,
Columbus, Oh TO-
THE USE OF WEALTH.
The true Christian spirit will not win In
America till man will count 1t disgrace to
own fortune and not be doing something for
the community in which he lives while he is
alive.-Rev. Lyman Abbott, Brooklyn, N. Y.
THE NEW WOMAN.
The new woman will have her day. She will
probably succeed in turning the heads of few
foolish ones, but that is all she Will do. she
will then pass into history as the fool of the
century.-Rev. W. H. Allen, Methodist, Woon-
socket, r. /.
VERIFYING THE BIBLE.
The Bible is not losing, but gaining ground
by the investigations OF to-day. Ancient mon
uments are Yielding up their inscriptions to
rising from the dead to contute the skeptlc
and take all the venom from his sneer. Rev.
George Combs, Christian Church, Kansas City,
Missouri
THE TURKS.
When we consider the horrible atrocities per-
petrated on the ArmenianS, when we think
that Jerusalem itself is in the hands OF this
people who despise Christianity, we are moved
TO wish that new crusade might he organized
to rescue the Holy City from those sacrilegious
hands. Rev. DR.. Mace, Episcopaian, Pater-
son, n. j.
PROGRESS.
Progress is the condition of life. When the
stream ceases to flow it becomes stagnant.
When men and women cease to grow their
minds and hearts stand still and are stagnant
as the pools. When church ceases to grow it
is ready for division and strife.-Rev. Thomas
F. Potts, Baptist, Memphis, Tenn.
OLD MEN.
A good man never dies till his work Is done,
and a righteous old age never lags superfuous
on the stage. 1t is worth noting that the three
most colossal figures in the worlds statesman
ship to-day are old men-Gladstone Ill Eng
land, Bismarck in Germany, Ii Hung Chang
in China.-Rev. James l. Vance. Presbyterian,
Nashville, Tenn.
INTEMPERANCE.
An intemperance is sin against God as well
as against man. The cure OF it must be by re-
pentance and returning to God Let drinking
men get all the help they can in other ways,
from pledges, lodges, fraternites, medication,
agitation and legislation but their greatest
help is in Godfrey. William Mckinley, Meth-
odist, st. Paul. Mimi.
THE BIBLE.
The Bible is not literary unit 1t is
library, written by many authors, whose labors
presents us, not with the links of a chain, but
with living record of a revelation that has
progressed from rudiments to the full-orbed
splendors of the Christian age.-Rev. Z. S.
Lewis Methodist, Cleveland, Ohio.
PRAYER.
When chemistry shall devise something bet
ter suited to the lungs than air, when optics
shall discover something more adapted to the
slider substitute for prayer. Even the prayer
less man will pray in sudden emergency.-Rev.
D. II. Martin, Newark, NJ
FAITH.
They that believe shall triumph. They that
have faith shall conquer. Don't fight in the
battle of life half-heartedly. Have faith in the
unfolding power of right and truth Have
faith in your manhood and your womanhood.
and worth the living for. have faith in it.-Rev.
C. W. L. Chaplin, Presbyterian, Utica, n. Y.
BUDDHISM.
Buddhism has no god. 1t has no name for
god II recognizes no being higher than man
may become. Some of its devotees to-day seem
to speak of first cause--but what that is they
know not. Buddhism gives no god. 1t makes
man lonely traveller in solitary desert with
no sun by day and no stars by night.-Rev.
Clarence A. Vincent. Presbyterian, Sandusky,
Ohio.
LIQUOR STATISTICS.
There is vast amount of exaggeration as to
and the number of people who die annually.
These statistics are grossly exaggerated. While
there is exaggeration on this side, there is more
on the part OF the liquor men, who say that
liquor keeps you cool in summer, warm in win
ter and that it has all sorts of eficacy.-Rev. T.
E. Busfeld, Baptist, Utica, n. Y.
CUBA.
The Cuban patriots of to-day are reddening
the island with their blood that their children
and childI ems children forever may enjoy the
blessings of liberty, and when the great cause
is won believe that these victims OF willing
martyrdom will rejoice that they were permit
ted to sacrifice themselves for the cause of
truth and right. Great principles are estab-
lished only through suffering and sacrifice
Rev. Carl E. Henry, Universalist, Cleveland,
Ohio.
The habit of swearing is so easy to acquire
and so hard to break that by all means it
should not be formed. A petty vexation causes
a little slip of the tongue. The habit grows.
1t may be what is called harmless swear word,
but'by and by the words grow into phrases and
sentences of sin. Then, once formed, 1t is so
hard to break away.-Rev. Dewitt NJ. Benham,
Pittsburg, Pa.
CITY AND COUNTRY.
The city encourages servility instead of inue-
pendence. Freedom is born and reared in the
country, and is often smothered under the
silks and with the sweets or the city. The city
is an unmerciful creditor. 1t taxes the time
and the faculties of man to the utmost. Life in
the city is life at high pitch; life whipped in
the foaming point; life under stimulants and
drugs-ambition, competition, desire and un-
rest.-M. NJ. Mangasserin, Chicago, Ill.
INGERsoLL
Ingersoll is defective in spiritual vision. He
offers no remedy for sin. He offers no adequate
hope for life to come. The Salvation Army,
with its hallelujahs and cymbals, can point
to enough good deeds done to refute every
argument of Ingersollism. The rock on which
every argument of Mr.. Ingersoll goes 10 pieces
is purified life that confessedly draws its in
spiration from the greater master life, Jesus OF
Nazareth Rev. sydney Strong, Congregations
alist, Cincinnati, Ohio.
JOURNALISM
princely highway is open in this land and
in this age to high-minded, fair-minded and
incorruptible daily journal. God give US an
lncorruptible, a pure, a Christlan press; one
with a prophetic ear TO hear the cry OF the
people; one with prophetic voice to proclaim
the rights of the people-to proclaim that
righteousness in broad in all the earth and
that God is on his throne.-Rey. j. X. Wheeler,
Chicago, Ill.
CoURTsHIP.
In true courtship the man is always the ap-
parent aggressor A true woman knows that a
true man loves nothing in woman more than
her beautiful modesty and her delicate coy
ness. Moreover a true woman is modest and
coy. Her modesty is her throne. On this
throne, with man supp1iant at her feet, she is
at home. She will not reverse this position.
She cannot reverse this position. She cannot
reverse it without changing her nature.-Rev.
b. +. Osborn, Baptist Watertown, N. \.
OPTIMISM.