The morning times., 1896-11-16

sermons recently delivered in the United
States and Canada by the leading clergy
and professors OF the Christian faith; In
every instance the text has been carefully
read and abbreviated:
BILLINGSGATE..
Billingsgate is not argument AS rule
caus Cdr. Emil G. Hirscb, Hebrew,
Chicago, Ill.
FITNESS.
No one is rightly fit to be minister OF
Christ until he has shared in Christ's
surferings-Rev. ]. P. Ryan, Catholic
Davenport, Iowa.
OPPRESSION.
There Is ten times more oppression Of the
poor by the poor or by the comparatively
poor men than there is by the rich.-Rey
J.; l.. Withrow, Presbyterian, Chicago
KNOW THYsELF.
We need TO understand ourselves. We
need more self-esteem and less self-con.
ceit. Man ought to study to understand
hinself.-Rev: F. 1. Conetas, Methodist,
indianapolis, Ind.
LABOR.
No one need think that labor is beneath
MIN. Labor is worship. lt Is digniiied.
the man or woman who tolls for others
is doing Gods work.-Rev. S. 7. Ford.
Lowell, Mass.
UNDERSTANDING.
we ought not TO De deceived aS 10 tne
true things OF life and should not attempt
TO understand the things which are not
TO be understood.-Bisnop S. N. Merrill,
Methodist, Chicago. Ill.
REST.
me soul, hampcred by the influences OF
q carnal heart, is ever stretching out It's
spirit fingers into the dark, searching
after rest.-Rev. j. ]. Armand, Primitive
Church, Brooklyn. N. Y.
UNITY.
great universal kingdom Is coming,
with Jesus Christ as leader, with
universal laws, universal religion. GUS
toms, and, perhaps. language.-Rey. E. L.
Pease, Universalist. Brooklyn. n. Y.
CoUNTERFEITS.
There is not a good thing in existence
bnt some one will rise and say this other
thing is just as good. The existence OF
Il good uhing makes it sure to be counter
rcited.-Rev. JONI ston Myers, Chicago,
THE ANGELIC DEVIL.
All divine work is good work. Even the
devil was good when he was created. In
his original state he was not a sower OF
tares. He was an angel of light.-Rey. H.
A. Goblin, Methodist, Evansville, Ill.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The American public school is the great
asSimiiating organ OF the body polite. Upon
IL, more than an Vt'iing els. IN tttio country.
must we depend for Americanizing vast
foreign element.-Rev. n. c. Peters, Inde
-NS" 1oi tiNs
SAVONAROLA.
The Roman Catholic Church in some
parts of America and in all parts OF Eu-
i.,e SEEDS u y. !. r.t % .l- sr,.r TIE
dare of Savonarola to cry out against cN
isting evils and aboninations.-R Alex
ander Lewis, CongTeSltlOnaliSt, Worcester
Mass.
GOD.
The attempt to live without God is as
futile as would be the effort to live without
eating or To breathe without air or to see
without light. Man has no choice betwee,
the one true and only living God and NJ
God at all.-Rev. ]. {. Wilson, Congrega
tionalist, Brooklyn. n. Y.
CITY CHURCHES.
In the great cities OF this country the
concentrate. Church and city are constantly
acting and reacting on each other. The
churches seek To take care or themselves
aud fall Their policy.is too timid.-Rev.
W. T. Chase, Baptist, Philadelphia, Pa.
BOOKS.
Desultory reading-that which vaults
from one thing TO anotber-is as much to
it deprecated as uesuitry cutlHg- DO
net read that which does not interest you;
it is not for you. The best Of all books
10 read is the Bible, the noblest OF all
characters in books-Rey. $. u. Nelson
Baptist, Brooklyn, n. Y.
USELESS WAR.
Think of the waste of human life, sacri-
whims and fancies or despots' auiDtIUns.
Back as far as history goes and up to the
present moment, We hear the wall OF a
''because Of a despoIs' ambtion. .'ERev
Joseph Speer, Presbyterian, Wheeling, W
Va.
THE LAW OF GOD.
The man who is in harmony with God has
no fear Of him. God Will punish the wicked
for the same reason that the law breaker
are punished. Laws are made to protect
the weak and inoffensive, as we'll as to
punish, and God made his laws not simply
that walk In the path OF truth and heavenly
TieheOusness-Rev. DR.. Williams, Evange-
list, Marshalltown, Iowa.
PUNISHMENT.
The first essential principle of justice
demands that man be punished for sin. Un-
one who violates the divine law must suffer
because OF his wrong doing, and as men are
clearly not dealt with in this life according
to their deserts 1t is evident that the punish
Eient must he met ID OUT at or beyond death.
Rev. II. II. Barbour. Rantist, Columbus, O
SUFFERING.
We cannot hope to escape trial and
Sorrow in this life, and even if we coul(
escape them, it would not be well for u
to make the attempt to do So. II IS
only through much tribulation that we
can hope to enter into eternal life. The
safe way To heavenis the way over which
our divine Lord and His Mother and tht
saints have gone, the Royal Highway OF
Davenport, Iowa.
REAL AND UNREAL.
Claiming to be a soldier and boasting Of
bravery, and welding Il sword or carrying
gun and dOnning soldiers garb, does
not make man a soldier, or prove that
TREE AT THE LAFAYETTE.