The San Francisco call., 1896-04-04

level Every man is true nobleman III he is a
Christian. Every man is rich man if he is a
follower of Jesus. Rev. C. L. White, Baptist,
Nashua, N. II.
THE TRUE CHURCH.
Christianity is not failure. II the Bible
has any word of truth in it-and tits all truth
the Catholic church is the only true church.
1t is the ark of salvation, the comforter of the
afflicted and what she was in the first century
she is now, and ever shall be.-Bishop Waiter
son, Catholic, Columbus, Ohio.
COMFORT.
Books on comfort very rare. Doubtless
one large reason is because 1t is impossible to
write book on the real % meaning OF cor comfort nc
hazy, mysterious way. But the biblical idea
OF comfort is very plain and full OF common mon
ton, COngregationalist Brooklyn.
LEGISLATION.
Brass is not made gold by gliding 1t. Reform
by legislation is a dream. Legislative DEGREES
cannot make men other than they are. The
brothers. Social happiness without brother
hooa is impossible. Brotherhood is not
product of the law. 1t is a product of love-
Rev. S. G. Nelson, Baptist, Brooklyn, N. Y.
THE BOOK OF BOOKS.
have heard preachers argue that in these
times OF wide thinking man who keeps close
TO one book will narrow himself 1t may be so
with other books, but the minister who sticks
close to the Bible has wide knowledge of the
whole range of history. 1t deals with all hu-
man experience.-BiShopC G. w. FoSS, Methodist
at Philadelphia, Pa.
RELIGION AND POLITICS.
There must be no compromise with evil. 1t
is our duty to carry our convictions into all the
walks of life, into our business and into our
politics. The man who does not carry his re-
ligion into his politics, in my opinion, has a
very poor kind of religion and very poor kind
of politics.-Rev. H. L. Huntington, Baptist,
Pendleton Hill, R. 1.
CHARACTER.
The loss of character is the saddest of losses.
1t is lost by sudden acts of crime or folly.
and 1t yields. A fool will burn city which
century could not build, and by single act we
can shatter character which a Lifetime will
hardly rebuid.-Rev. A Gunnison, Universal
ist, Worcester, Mass.
INFIpELITY.
Infdelity is not distinguished for its mod
esty. Stone-throwing is its pastime. Its occu-
patton is the undermining and overthrowing
of cherished beliefs and institutions. Its stock
in trade is epithet and ridicule; 1t reveres no
sanctity; it bushes at no vice. 1t follows virtue
afar off; 1t engages itself unhesitatingly to de-
stroy what has req uired years for construction.
Rev. A.. Z. Conrad, Congregationalist,
Worcester, Mass.
CUBA AND ARMENIA.
There was never period in the worlds his
tory when the God of Elijah was more needed
than to-day. All counties profess to believe
done by them to prevent the butcheries in
Armenia and Cuba, because there is no one
with grit enough. no one bold enough to stop
them.-Rev. DR.. Proudft, Presbyterian, Spring
field, Ohio.
PURITAN1sM.
Puritanism in its logical result, as well as
historic eloquence, is free America. Its prin-
ciples are the fountain whence flowed the
Declaration of Independence. An open Bible,
a free church, utterly separate from the state,
social equality, which knows no distinction.
but merit, the sovereignty not of prelates or of
princes but of the people as expressed in right
eous laws.-Rev. P. H. Mowry, Presbyterian,
Chester, Pa.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
If the Catholiec hureh is not the kingdom of
God on earth, where, then, is that kingdom?
Where is there an institution like the Catholic
church? 1t has marked the history OF every
present time. If it is not the kingdom of God
on earth it has failed in its mission, and Christ
was false prophet.-Bishop McGoYern, Catho-
lie, Harrisburg Pa.
INVENTIONS.
The number aid Importance of inventions
in this day is not due to the superiority OF the
the social conditions of to-day Liberty Of
| thought, absence of war, preservation and
wide disseminationo of intelligence by printing
stands raised high above the scientist of the
middle ages or ancient times.-Rev. Frank
Crane, Methodist, Chicago, Ill.
EDUCATION.
Education is not a stuffing or era mining
process, but drawing out, Il developing of
what is in person. 1t is mistake to fancy
| tnaJ large eQucatlon is only Tor the pro-
| fessional man. Why should not all persons
want generous education? But unless edu-
cation strengthens manhood it is fruitless.
| Man is intended to do something for the
| world. He must not be satisfied with the
| leaves.-Bishop n. S. Rulison, Episcopalian,
| Wilkesbarre, Pa.
| SECTIoNALIsM.
| In the consideration and settlement OF every
question certaining, to the welfare of this Ma
| ton there should be no North, no East no
| South, no West. The Elm should always be to
| secure the welfare of the Nation q whole.
along this line, as for example, may be easily
| discovered by looking into its treatment OF
| such questions as the silver question and the
| tariff question.-Rev. K. A. Beard, Congrega-
| tionalist, Nashua, n. II.
| woMAN's DUTY.
| Let not the husband take upon himself the
| duties of the wife, nor the wife the duties of
| the husband. To reverse Gods order in the
| home is TO wreck the family and disrupt
| ciety. The wife who goes to the ballot-box and
| votes, or to the courtroom to practice law, or
| on the platform to make political speech, or
| into pulpit to perform the functions of the
| Christian ministry, is not only disloyal to her
sex, her husband and her children, but is prac-
| tically an infidel.-Rev. DR.. Hawthorne, Bap-
| tist, Atlanta, Ga.
| The size of mans world is the size of his
| ideas. Small ideas, small world. Small world,
small man. The nature of the mans world is
! the nature of the man. If his ideas are pure he
| is pure If his ideas stoop to low Things, he
| must sink to the same low level. The
man with ideas rules society. The man with
| out ideas is the sponge that takes up. Ideas
are in the intellectually and moral world
standard as in the commercial world. 1t takes
certain number to measure up.-Blshop
| Joyce, Methodist, Bridgeton NJ.
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