The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-08
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this does not necessitate any want
Of true unity. UNCONVENTIONAL 10y
atty Is important to success. Let every
man be in his own place by his standard
when duty calls and conflict with the DOW
ers of evil is waged. This is the secret
OF progress and victory. Rev. IL. Hostetler
Presbyterian, Sioux City, Iowa.
THE BATTLE OF THE CHURCH
Look over the history OF Christianity and
mark its progress. Every step has been
contested; many and severe have been the
battles in which sin. crime and corruption
have been engaged against righteousness
honesty and justice. Nor have these con-
tests ceased; we stand face to face with
them today.-Rev. Joseph Speer Presbyte-
rian, Wheeling. w. Va.
HEAVEN is HERE - Christianity is
for this life. 1t is for us now.
Our business is to have heaven every
day of our life. and to have heaven here
Don't be so foolish as to think that YOU
can get along through this life and spend
all of your time getting ready for the next
II you go on this principle | am afraid
you VIII have poor reception when you
get to heaven. Get your heaven now.--Rev.
Peter Glare. Methodist, Minneapolis, MINI.
REPENTANCE-Th act OF repentance
is the undoins Of mans regret. Repent
ance comes after seeing the truth. You
cant feel rightly unless you see rightly.
1t is astonishing how much power is in
the assertion of the gospel. The sinners
conversion comes from what the mind
sees. If knowledge be wrong emotion is
useless. The difference between cult!va-
tion and knowledge is we know not when
1t comes. bishop Hurst, Methodist.
Wheeling, w. Va.
FORGIVENESS-Th word forgiveness
means more than pardon--it means not
alone that we are set free, but that our
sins and crimes have been forgiven Who
can measure the vastness Of Gods forgive
ness or the richness Of his grace? 1t is
measured out not according to the char
acter OF the person to be forgiven or the
number of sins which he may have COM
mitted. but in the manner in which he
seeks it.-Rev. Samuel Riddagh, Presby-
terrain. ogdensburg. N. Y.
GOOD FRUIT-Unless the soil OF the
heart is prepared, broken by the plow
share OF conviction and the harrow of re-
pentance, and watered by the tears of con-
triton and The dews OF heavenly grace and
fed and fattened by the rich. fertilising
truth of the word OF God and warmed by
the rays Of the sun OF righteousness and
weeded of corruption and iniquity and bad
habits. there will, there can be no good
fruitage Very much depends upon the
soil.-Rev. j. NJ. Meyer. Reformed, AL
toona, Pa.
RESTLESSNESS-The great restlessness
OF the closing years of this century is born
OF the unsatisfed desire of the largest
secular life humanity has yet reached Its
lesson to the church is that secular life
can not be satisfying. Man is too large
for the world. and the more you enlarge
nm without giving him another world. the
more you increase the conditions OF rest
lessness. The unsatisfed need OF today is
the creation of Christian civilization
Rev. II. ]. White, Baptist, Worcester,
Mass.
JOINING THE CHURCH-Joinng the
church is In one sense n very small affair.
II makes no difference whatever in your
lie In one sense. II is simply the open
confession OF what you already believe in
your soul. In another sense 1t is OF the
utmost Importance. 1t means the open al
lance of your LIES powers with those
whom you believe to be battling on the
right side In this great moral conflict 1t
means that your Influence with men shall
be for the right,-Rev. ]. p. Egbert, Pres
byterian, st. Paul. MINI.