The morning times., 1896-10-26

but by rising higher every time We fail.
making our failures the stepping stones 10
higher effort. There are duties all along
the Christian Scours : To be performed " hict
require heroic effort. Going round the
base ill never take men up to those
mountain heights which open up "a mag
nifcent outlook upon nature and its
beauties. Rev. j. c. Bowers, Lutheran,
Washington, ID. c.
ARMENIA.
Every American ship which can be
spared should at once be sent into Turkish
waters. The sultan is not to be treated
as II lie were humaniZed ruler He is
TO be treated as the worlds red handed
| assassin. Our words of entreaty must
be backed by shotted guns In order that
the sultan may listen. America must take
her place WITH Great Britain for the
honor OF our common humanty.-Rey. X.
5. Macarthur, Baptist, New York.
IMPULSE.
| The unStudicd action should be the lest
action; the unpremeditated W ord, the best
"oru. Unconscious goodness is the best
eoouhess. The sonndeSt heart that ever
Deaf III human body is the heart of
which the posscssor is unconscious, and the
sweetest grace that ever breathed forth
from the lips of the Nazarene was the
grace oil HIS words that told the simple
but mighty passion OF his inherent life
The Rev Z. L. ReXford, Universalist,
Columbus, Ohio.
ETERNAL LIFE.
To know the only true God is life, but
this alone does not constitute life. With
the knowledge OF God there must be also
knowledge of the reviled victim of Calvary
cross. For those who repudiate the deity
OF Jesus Christ, no eternal life, for those who
Wliiuliy remain inlgnordnce OF Jesus Christ,
! no heaven; for those who deliberately re-
Jcct the salvation which is provided in His
| name. no lfc--The Rev. H. II. Barbour
| Baptist, Columbus. Ohio.
TRANSPORTATION.
There are two processes for the trans
formation of llfe's sins and sorrows. One
is regeneration, which is the quarry in
which God goes To gather His material. The
other process of Transformation is sancti-
ilcdtIOu, wl1Ch fashions and mods the ma
teiial gathered in the quarry of regcnera-
tion. By the process of sanctification we
| are prepared as spiritual stones for the
splritUaI building OF God in heaven. The
Rev l.. h. Zimmerman, Lutheran, Balti-
more, Md.
REFORM.
The number of reform societies is in
creasDg at the rate of about one dav,
and l think that there is one needed for
the prevention and suppression of useless
reform Societies. These societies say
they are going To save society by reform-
| ing it. We must reform society by saving
it ny inward regeneration instead of out
ward reformation, and any other way must
fail, because IL is contrary to Gods method.
The Rev. John Hemphill, Presbyterian,
San Francisco.
POLITICAL COURAGE,
AT times like these men need the courage
OF Iisr convictions. Party loyalty ought
not to make such gluttons of men that
| they would swallow fasiehuod Greed
| for office ought not to bc SO great that
they would iudorsc what they believe to
| be wrong. Loyalty to principles rather
| than 10 men, seeking the right instead of
| the office, subordination Of self to the
| general good requires a courage which is
! both manly and patriotic. The Rev. W. II
Preston, Presbyterian, Doylestown, Pa.
IDEAL LIVES.
God has for each life perfectly good
| great and beautiful ideal. But between
| most lives and Gods ideal for them some
| evils have come in to complicate the situa-
| ton. Defective Inheritance or constitL tional
tendency, or the baneful potency of some
| bad social influence, or sickness or sorrow,
| or some other hindrance, stands in almost
every path, preventing 10 some appreciable
extent human lives from being all they
| were meant to be.-The Rev. G. c. Hall,
Presbyterian, Brooklyn, n, Y.
| GREAT OPPORTUNITIES.
| Back uf the money question, back Of
| the tariff question, back OF all the great
| questions that agitate society today are
| other questions far more reaching and far
more important Never until men are
unselfish and gentle, never until men are
| what they ought TO be, will society have
| upon its statute books laws that are Just
| fpnn pfan hair
enforcement; never until men are what
| they ought to be Will wealth be properly v
| distributed. Rev. j. II. O. Smith, Inde-
pendent, Chicago.
LOVE FOR GOD.
We should love God above all things, be.
| cause He is the supreme god, and because
He is the author OF everything that exists
except sin. Our soul is the image of God
| and tnis is why the devil hates the soul
and tries TO destroy it. The enemy of the
| soul holds high carnival when ne takes /;
| soul from God. The world would have
| gone on without US had we never beer
born, and 1t would be impossible for US to
exist were God TO withdraw from US a
| single moment. t.-Monsgnor Thorp, Roman
| Catholic Cleveland, o.
POLITICS.
Men worship the calf of power, and glut
| themselves upon its spoils, purchased at the
| expense of every principle capable Of
| beautifylng truth and manhood. There is
| too much of that which is base in political
| life, too little of that which is elevating and
purifying. And it pervades, unhappily the
rank and file, the upper and the lower
| strata of the whole modern fabric which
| we call politics. If there is anything in
this world where the golden rule should
| prevail il is in Eolitics. l.. A. Banks
| Methodist, Brooklyn, n. Y.
| BROTHERHOOD.
| Man must learn the lesson from the lives
| of all the worlds great spiritual teachers
| Kushna, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus, the key
| not of which was sacrifice; the sacrifice OF
| .ne lower Ilnrtai seIr To Jne higher spIriJual
| self, or the soul, In short, to recognize
real, living brotherhood of ma n and to real
| iZe that as the vice-regent of God on earth
| each mans mission in life is to advance
| the best welfare of his felowmen, the meas
| ure of each mans responsibility being tn
| measure of his strength, mis- intelligence. and
his wea'th. h.-George M. Coffin, Theosopiisl
| New York City.
THE RIGHT SPIRIT.
Those who approach religionin the proper
| spirit can see 1t, and only those. Learn.
ing or mental acutenesS has nothing to do
| with the case. To be a scientist one must
have the SCIENTIFIC spirit; To be a Greek
scholar, the critical spirit; to be his
torian one must manifest the historical
spirit; to be. good lawyer one must
cultivate the judicial mind;' one can
neither paint nor judge pictures unless
he has the artistic temperament. Now,
all this means you cannot come into real
knowledge of any matter whatever your
mental qualifications unless you cultivate
forita certain sympathy; you must address
yourself to it in the right spirit.-Rey
Frank Crane, Methodist, Chicago.
SELFISHNESS.
Se!fishness leads to worldly -mindedness