The Republican journal., 1896-10-01

NoHSieSdlloudllSl, 0an FRANCISCO
PUNISHMENT. We must be willing to
suffer all the penalties God sends upon us
when we do wrong because we deserve
them. Forgiveness is not the remission
OF deserved punishment. Why should it
be? If the punishment be strictly Just
and it must be, because it is from Cod.
why should it not be inflicted? Rev. II.
L. Veazey, Universalst, Atlanta.
CHURCH PROGRESS. The progress of
Christianity is helped or hindered accord
ing to the nature of the government under
which it exists. 1t was long time before
we made much religious progress in Mex
leo, chiefly because of the lack of protec-
ton by the government. 1t has made but
little progress in Turkey, Bulgaria and
Armenia for the same reason. Christiani-
ty does not ask the direct and active CO.
operation of civil government, but it does
ask that the laws of the nation under
which it exists shall be such as not to
hinder its most efficient exercise, and
When the peace and prosperity of the ma
ton are secured the prosperity of the
church is also assured. Rev. E. NJ.
Wood, Methodist, Allegheny.
MANHOOD. The noblest work of God
is manhood, and Christ's life and death
We're to teach us that sin was a disease to
be cured that men might once more be-
come in accord with nature and her God
that is, the ideal church must teach
that man has God for a father, and that
that father loves him, be he saint or sin
ner. Rev. c. II. Fem, Congregations
list, Kansas City.
4 GOD OF TEARS. Jesus Christ on
earth shed tears. No other religions, with
ali their boasted pomp or philosophical
distinctions, have dared to present to the
world God that weeps. What a comfort,
when troubles come thick and fast, to
know that we have not alone a God of
Rev. j. X. Mason, Episcopalian, Louis
vile.
HONESTY. Men of o-day are so bent
on the acquisition of gain that they are
blind to what is known as business honor.
The country has suffered tremendously.
and we are beginning to see the fruits of
it, What we want is honest head work,
honest hand work, honest machine work,
honest labor and honest capital. Rev r.
W. Sharp, Presbyterian, Thomaston.
Conn.
OBscURITY. 1t is great thing to live,
love, hope and suffer with ordinary
people. He is a wiser man who can learn
a lesson from the daisy at his feet than he
who wanders from it tc the stars above his
head. God takes notice of the obscure.
He is not nearsighted and can see the
shining luster in the minute detail of life,
Rev. J. q. A. Henry, Baptist, Chicago.
EARNEsTNEss. When men are in ear
nest, they make history" Our fathers W ere
not heroes for the dramatic effect upon
future generations. They We're not acting
spectacular play. Only the best and
the truest, the heroic deeds, become part
0f what we call America. 1t is only the
best things we have done that constitute
our part. Rev. Thomas Chalmers, Con
gregationalist, Port Huron, Mich.
CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS. Every man
when he is called is expected to fight
against every wrong, Fight for temper
ance, political and social purity, for Sab
bate observance, for all the weak. Ar
womanhood ana childhood cry. The
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whole creation eroans, expecting your
assistance. Toward these, We soldier. of
gallant heart and strong arm, champion
the cause of the weak and oppressed
| Rev, Thomas Heisig, Reformed Church,
jersey City.
NATURE AND DEATH. Nature is in
different to man. Napoleon died on the
bleak shores of ST. Helena. a nation
Ieeled in agony when the bullet of an
assassin struck cur martyred President.
But the sun shone, the birds sang and the
world moved on as before. But when
Christ was clucltied on Calvary the heav-
ems darkened and thunder and lightning
rent the skies. Rev. c. D. Foss, Metho-
dist Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
THOU SHALT NOT KILL. Taking away
life is an iTreparable wrong. Fortune
lost may be won again, friends alienated
may be restored, but life once gone is
gone foreyer. Even few more years Of
life may be worth million fortunes to a
man, because this is place OF discipline
and probati On, which end with life. For
this reason God has reserved to himself
the right to take away life. Rev L. 5.
Todd, Methodist, Baltimore, Nd.
PoLITICS AND RELIGION. This pulpit.
so long as am in it, will give politics a
place in ts,discussions and it is not a mere
dream that the Ten Commandments and
the golden rule will be recognized some
time i'll the politics of the country If a
man cannot take his politics into religion,
the politics are bad. If man cannot take
his ballot into his prayers, he had better
let the ballot go. Rev. r. S. Macarthur
Baptist, New York.
DISHONESTY. The spirit OF the age is a
spirit OF misrepresentation. On all of us
there is tremendous pressure to appear
what we are not and to get, even by dis
honest methods, the things we want but
do not have. The whole sweep and swing
OF the age is to press our young men from
the paths of absolute honesty, and
the temptation to be dishonest manifests
itself in different ways. REV. c. B.
Mitchell, Methodist, Kansas City,
IMMORTALITY. There is within us a
spark of the divinity which can not be an
initiated at death, for it forms no part of