The San Francisco call., 1896-03-03
character, discipline and obedience to divine
will. = Bishop Hall (Episcopalian), Woon-
PELIGIoN FOR rHE MASSES.

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RELIGION FOR THE MASSES.
Chris tianity is a religion for the millions
for the masses All have sinned and all need
the gospel of redemption Woe TO any church
that degenerates into social club and caters
only to her own pewholders.-Rev. G. Ii. Jones,
Baptist, Louisville, KY.
PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY.
It is of little use to try and teach man about
the Bible and Christ and God when his stomach
is empty or he is suffering from the cold. The
human heart must be touched where it is most
vulnerable William Rainsford, Episco-
palian, Cincinnati, Ohio.
DOCTRINE.
To live on doctrine is like feeding q hungry
man on the formula of beefstesk. Catechisms
and theologies must be made into the bread OF
life if the soul would feed on them.-Rev. A. J.
Nelson, Methodist, San Rafael, Cal.
PROGRESS.
The church must encourage new learning. II
must foster investigation. Verify we stand
upon the threshold of a vast temple of scien-
tifc knowledge, rising all around us. The
church must be lively If 1t keeps abreast of the
march of modern thought.-Rev. A. j. Can.
field: Uniyersalist, Chicago, ILL.,
CONFIDENCE.
We are living in hard times. The experts in
finance tell us. and the recent bond sale justi.
fies the view, that these hard times arise, not
from lack of money, but from lack of conf
dence Without confidence credit is impos-
sible, and without credit business dissolves.-
heN. OI AlucH, IdptiSt, hlCuIuouu, va.
MOTHERHOOD.
Motherhood is woman's truest lory What
ever other rights woman may attain none will
will throw around her the luster which attends
motherhood. Yet how many there are who
discount motherhood. The imperative need of
the hour is a revival OF motherhood in its
truest highest and noblest sense-Rey Leon
Sonfield, Episcopalian, Galveston, Tex.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
To develop men we must have more than the
hQra NJ nf1 70 n,,r
atthe top and being renewed from the bottom.
The liquor-drinking classes barely live, vet the
race goes, on while the wealthier society
dwindles down, leaving but few heirs.-Rey. ].
H. Macdonald. Methodist, Newport. R. /.
FUTURE PUNISHMENT.
The Universalist Church believes in hell. in
punishment, both here and in the world to
come. There are not ministers nor theologies
to disprove the self-evident fact that
every violated law will bring its penalty; tha
whatsoever man SOweth that shall ne also
reap;-Rev: Albert Hammott, Universalist,
Brockton, Mass.
THE JAPANESE.
All the virtues of mankind existed before
Christianism was born, and they exist largely
and vitally to-day in lands where it is un-
known. In the 3O,0OO,OO0 Japanese there is
found more humanity, more charity, more in
tegrity, more sweetness of life without the pos.
pei than in any 80 900 900 of christendom
with the gospel.-Rev. DR.. Wheelock, Uni tar
ian, Austin, Tex.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The public school is the inheritance of the
people, and within Its walls no word or prac-
tice should be uttered or performed that can
wound the religious Susceptibtltties of any
child who attends it. To act in any other
spirit is deceptive unjust, un-American and
seditious, inasmuch as it tends to breed sec a.
rian strife.-Rabbi j. L. Levy (Hebrew) Phila-
delphia, Pa.
EVOLUTION.
The Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve. the
serpent the fall; what is all this but noe trv
the product of uniformed imagination? We
now know that the human race did not begin
perfect. and then descend into state of sin
and brutality and utter misery, but that it has
climbed upward from the lowest manifesto
tions of life TO the civilization OF which we
now boast.-Rev. D. NJ. Wilson, Unitarian.
Westerly, r. |.
SPIRITUAL PHOTOGRAPHY.
The human soul is the tablet on which the
image Of Jesus is to be photographed, as the
sensitive plate must be developed in the
chemical baths before the image appears, SO
our hearts must be made characterised by
his blood and annoiuted by the grace of God.
Light is essential in the physical process
plenty of light.-Rey. NJ. A. Head, Methodist.
Cleveland, Ohio.
SCIENCE AND THE CHURCH.
Under the guidance of the church the
whole universe has joined in the worship of
the true God. The church knew that human
science was the handmade of faith, and there
is no branch of art or science that does not
aid her mission. All great scientists, with a
few exceptions, have been deeply religious.
The church has always been to science a kind
and helpful friend-Rey. Father Doody, Cath
olic, Cambridge, Mass.
LIBERAL RELIGION.
liberal in religion is one who keeps his