The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-08-20

ing increasingly probable, even to philos-
ophers, the existence in the universe OF
an internal hypnotist, whom scientists
may call what they please, but whom the
Scriptures call the devil. Rev. P. S.
Henson, Baptist, Chicago.
A SINGLE Word. Think of the writ
ings of Confucius, Buddha, Zoroaster,
Moses and Socrates-what volumes they
fill! Christ wrote but one word, and tina,
in the sand. Christ states a principle of
action and conduct in four letters which
covers and exhausts the whole world OF
humanity. There is nothing beyond it OIL
above it but God, and he is the source OF
it-love. Rev. DIR, Webb, Independent,
Baltimore.
| SHAKESPEARE AND THE BIBLE. A man
spoke within my hearing, saying that
Shakespeare never quoted any one. In
this he was greater than Christ. for Christ
had quoted. l sat to the task of solving
the question, and after eight months !
found just 551 places where Shakespeare
had quoted the Bible in his thirty seven
plays. In these thirty seven plays just
thirty-seven times has he made illusions
to this great book. Rev. Kerr Upper,
Baptist, Philadelphia.
RELIGION AND BUSINESS. There should
be no conflict between business and re-
lgion. The trend of religion is ever in
the direction of prosperity. A man ought
ever to be as religious selling wheat or
sugar as he is at prayer meeting, and if
he is not his religion is snare and a de-
fusion. Religion is the nurse OF economy.
the patron of industry, the guardian of
integrity, and is pledge of and guide to
! success Rev. C. II. Fitzwilliams. Bap-
fist, Pittsburg.
GLORY. This word GLORY is unde-
| tinaole We know something of its mean
ing as it manifests itself in nature around
us. But this is not the glory that excell-
eth, We admire that glory with which
we describe the achievements of human
intellect. But it is not the glory that eA-
celletlI The greatest glory ever seen in
this world is the redemptive glory OF God
| revealed to us through the son of God
and revealed to the world through the
Church of God. Rev. S. P. Spreng,
Evangelist, Cleveland.
PLAGIARISM. l have much sympathy
with the poor fellow who steals a loaf of
bread to keep his wife and babies from
hunger. But the preposterous individual
with reputation for learning, piety and
honesty, admired by great congregation,
who goes on false reputation and steals
other mems brainwork to keep up his
humbug, is SO detestable an animal that
there is no known punishment adequate
to bis case. The ordinary pickpocket is a
saint in comparison. Rev. DR.. Thomp-
son, Episcopalian, Natchez, Miss.
RELIGION AND SCIENCE. Religion is
the knowledge Of life, science is sys-
tematic knowledge Religion is sepa-
rated from science only in the sense that
you can speak of religion and sculpture
or religion and history being distinct.
Religion includes all knowledge in the
world, so far as that knowledge is neces-
sary for the worship of God or the better
ment of humanity. Religion is not moral
ity, although it includes it. Religion is
not science, but it does not deny the use
fulness of science. Rev. A. W. Bost-
wick, Episcopalian, Evansville, y. Y.
The ETERNAL CHRIST. Faith may
languish, creeds may be changed,
churches may be dissolved, society may be
shattered, but one can not imagine time
when Jesus will not be the fair image of
perfection or the circumstances wherein
he will not be loved He can never be
superseded. He can never be exceeded.
Religions will come and go, but Jesus
will remain the standard of the conscience
and the satisfaction of the heart whom all
men seek. Rev. B. E. Howard, Presby-
terrain, Los Angeles.
tionalities may extend their territorial
possessions in Africa through wars and
commerce, the wicked trader in human
flesh may visit her to increase his i'll
gotten gain, and the explorer may tread
the tangled maze of her unknown interior
that he may enlarge geographical knowl-
edge and pave the way for civilization,
but it remains with us to save the immor-
tai souls of her people through the peace
full agencies of education, the word and
the Christian ministry made efficient by
the Holy Ghost REV. j. E. Mason,
African Methodist, Syracuse.
SYMPATHY. What tens of thousands
of our fellow creatures need is help-help
to form new principles; help to extricate
themselves from their present environ
ment, help to climb to higher and purer
moral attitudes. Sympathy is the great
desideratum-not sympathy at arms
length, but hand to hand sympathy; not
sympathy that exhausts itself in signs and
tears, but sympathy that means work for
the unemployed, medicine for the sick,
or places of refuge for the evilpursued,
and lifts in place of knocks for the fallen
and the falling. REV. William Fielder,
Methodist, Minneapolis.
IMMORTALITY. Immortality may be de-
fined to be the ceaseless projection of the
present life throughout the endless fu-
ture The arguments for immortality
may be classified into the Scriptural and
the philosophical. The philosophical
argument is built upon the logical infer
ence of reason and rests its claim on the
intuitions within us, the phenomena of
nature about us, and the evidence of
moral system about us. The question of
Immortality finds perfect answer In the
Scriptures. AS a matter Of written re-
velation Immortality is plainly set forth.
REV. G. W. Izer, Methodist, Allegheny.
Pennsylvania.
LABOR AND HONESTY. How different
a character our national life would bear
if, in place of pressing the young to strive
after greatness, we set before them the
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