The San Francisco call., 1896-04-11

is to demand more qualities than any business
! on earth.-Rev. T. de Witt Talmage, Presby-
terian, Washington, d. c.
METHODIST UNITY.
The supreme need of this hour is a reunion
of dismembered Christendom. We may not
be able to heal the breach between Protestant
ism and Roman Catholicism, nor even between
the various branches OF Protestan tlSm, but the
seventeen breaches OF Methodisn ought to be
able, by the grace of God, to get together
Rev. ]. W. Magruder, Methodist. Cincinnati,
Ohio.
THE CITIZEN BOSS
Usually the boss holds some official position,
but in the Empire State to-day the dictator,
Thomas c. Platt, is private citizen. The only
Broadway, and yet from his throne invisible
he rules his party and the entire people with
a rod of iron.-Rev. j. L. scudder, Congrega-
tionalist, Jersey City, n. J.
SALVATION.
Many wait unt til the hand of death is almost
clasped upon them before they consider their
duty to God. Salvation is the work OF life
time, and should not be allotted but a few
moments in this life, as many are won't to give
1T. Riches and worldly gain are matters OF but
q few years, while salvation is for eternity
Rev. Patrick Lavelle, Catholic, Pittsburg, Pa.
RELIGION AND BUSINESS.
great many people don't believe in mixing
religion and business, but such people have no
religion to mix. A religion which is only for
Sunday, which can per-, permit six days OF business .
gives reluctantly as q favor to God part OF the
Sabbath, is atheism. 1t is not Christianity
Rev. B. Fay Mills, evangelist, Lafayette, Ind.
CULTURE.
Refinement and culture should not be merely
physical. They should be moral and spiritual.
Polish that does not include the moral and
spiritual nature Is only veneer. There is a
false culture which resembles the cut flowers
breviated and soon wither away. But the
church is the center and source of all true cul-
ture.-Rev. D. r. Breed, Presbyterian, Pitts
burg. Pa.
All human knowledge, all human affection
is built on faith. Faith is the eye and ear of
the soul. All history is with US matter of
faith. The farmer sows his seed by faith, and
largely by faith a man prospers in business
Business is based wholly on faith. Faith makes
national business intercourse possible; faith
binds together the church. the nation and the
family.-Dishop Arnett, African Methodist,
Meadville, Pa.
JUDGMENT.
We are all standing before the Judgment
seat of Christ now and being tested every day
not to find what kind of an angel or devil we
are going 10 make at some far away time, but
what kind OF man or woman we are going to
be tomorrow. Each day life is the outcome
of our former mode of living, and we have
heaven or hell continuously, according to our
capacity and merit.-Rev. L. H. Squires, Uni
versalist, Rochester n. Y.
EDUCATION AND MORALITY
Thousands OF the most intelligent and
learned men of the past were as much dis
tinguished for their wickedness as for their
wisdom. knowledge alone cannot make US
better men, for knowledge is oftener in
strument of evil than an instrument of good
The blacklist villainies in the worlds history
were planned by men who had received di-
plomas from colleges and universities. 1t is
not true, then, that education is the panscea
for all the moral ills of the world -Rev. J. B.
Hawthorne, Baptist, Atlanta, Ga.
LOVE.
Love is the greatest need of the age. Pow
erty causes many people TO suffer from hunger
to-day, but they need love more than they need
bread. AS eager as the intellect is for knowl-
edge 1t is not as necessary to 1t as love. We
may empty our purse in the hand of the
needy, bu. unless We give to him our hearts
love and sympathy we have not given what he
needs. We may give both time and money to