The Republican journal., 1896-01-23
The Republican Journal Thursday Morning. January g. 1885,
Religious Thought.

| Religious Thought.
AN EPIToME OF SERMONS BY EMINENT
CLERGYMEN OF VARIOUS DENOMINATIONS.
| PATRIOTISM. A race of martyrs has
made our liberties secure. When peril
comes to climax my countrymen shall not
fail. Rev. G. A. Crane, Colorado Springs,
Colo.
SALOONS AND SLAVERY. The saloon
has no more right to exist than the auc-
ton block of slavery. One has gone, the
other will soon follow it. Rev. j. M.
Thoburn, Methodist, Detroit, Mich
LABOR. There is fierce competition be-
tween capital and lator, but Christ was
always the friend of the poor, and true
Christians must needs be like him or the
| Church will die. Rev. Clifford Barnes,
Congregationalist, Chicago, Ill.
, SUCCESS. Money can buy magnificent
headstone, but not holy memory nor an
honorable record. Modest self-reliance,
vigorous industry invincible determine
ton, stimulated by the vigorous motives
of right, are sure to win. D. B. Dewey,
Baptist, Chicago, Ill
NATIONS AT WAR. The rosy morning
has not yet dawned when great interna-
tional questions will be finally determin-
ed by a board of international abitrators.
| European countries are experiencing I'M
rest. Their rulers nearly all wear under
garments made of bullet proof textures.
Rev. Dr.. Leech, Methodist, Crawfords-
vile, Ind.
INGERsoLL's FOLLOWERS. There are
thousands of young men and young
women who not only take no interest in
religion, but are prejudiced against it.
OF these Ingersoll is the leader. He
speaks and they echo; he leads and they
follow Rabbi M. j. Cries, Hebrew,
| Cleveland. ..
LESSONS OF LEE. Our lives are dis
cipline. BY sorrow and trial we are learn
ing the lessons of life. When we reach
the end of our earthly career we just be-
gin to know how to live. We see then
what life means. Rev. Edgar P. Hill,
Presbyterian, Portland, Ore.
FUTURE AMERICANS. The child will
yet be born in America in whose veins
will flow the blood of all nations who are
congregating here, and when that time
comes there will be giants in this land,
not only of physical prowess, but intel
lectual power. Rev. Calem A. Hare,
Baptist, indianapolis, Ind.
TIE BALLOT. The ballot is a sacred
trust, given into our keeping for our
selves, our families, our country and our
postelity. Not until Christian men recog-
nj h. tbat tba Of
lowers not its standard to any evil: not
until Christian men carry their convic-
tions to the ballot box, will incompetence
and its kindred evils disappear from our
| land Rev. 5. B. Jones, Methodist, ST.
! Paul, MINI.
| MIRACLES. The miracles of the Bible
are not unnatural, that is contrary to ma
| ture they are supernatural; that is above
1 nature, above the laws OF nature with
which we are at present acquainted. If
we knew as much of the laws of nature as
Jesus Christ, there would be no such
thing as a miracle, in its special and tech
nical significance. Rev. George T. Dow
ling, Baptist, Boston, Mass
| AMERIcANIsM. Any political party that
| lays its hand on the little red schoo, house
will be smitten by the iron rod of public
| Indignation till its hand is broken in a
dozen places. Any minister, be he called
, clergyman or priest, who lifts his voice
against the little red schoolhouse is an
apostate and traitor to the Declaration
of Independence. Rev. G. w. Gullette,
Methodist, Cincinnati, O.
MOB RULE. Mobocracy is never justi-
fable. 1t is a set of wild, passion nt1am-
ed, fanatical, unreasoning, maniacal- like
men, who have no regard for their own
lives or the lives and rights of Others A
mob does not want Justice, it wants blood
1t is driven on by passion, 10y revenge. 1t
will resist officers. 1t will destroy pub
| lie property. Rev. John n Lyle, Pres
| byterian, Lewisburg, Tenn.
! EDUCATION OF WOMAN. The idea un-
| derlying the education of woman is not to
fit her for business, but it is rather to de-
velop in her true womanhood. She is the
mother to whose care the infancy of the
race is committed and as such she is in
a sense the director of the destinies of the
race. 1t is her hand which unseen molds
society, gives a trend to literature and
fosters morality. Rev. j. w. Knappen-
berger, Allentown, Pa.
HAPPINESS The whole trend of hui
man activity is to the end that we may be
happy. But no one can be truly happy
who is not good, and what is goodness but
moral perfection? And this is salvation.
| Therefore, every man may be said to be
directly working out his own salvation, in
that he is striving for happiness, which is
the harmony of rightly adjusted or good
life. Rev. Charles R. East, Universalist,
Kansas City, Mo.
| SOCIALISM,. Socialism and Christianity
agree in two respects: They both desire
reorganization of society, and they both
aim at a reorganization of society which
shall give greater diffusion of intelli-
gence and wealth throughout the COM
munity. Socialism puts the social condi-
ton first, and the individual condition
second Christianity does the reverse
Il II J. H.,