The San Francisco call., 1896-04-18
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FRIGID RELIGION
Stiff preachers make empty pews. The
preacher should prove himself the friend OF
manklnd. He should descend from his pom Q
ana high platform of empty dignity and come
among the people, speak to the people, and
snow them that he is friend of manhood at
large. Cold and formal churches make empty
Pews Christianity is served too much on ice.
we want warm hearts, warm greetings, warm
nandshakings in all our churches.-ReY. NJ. A.
refers Lutheran, York, Pa.
ARBITRATION.
In the bright lexicon OF diplomacy there's
no such word as "arbitrate.' There are in
trlgue, scheme, bribery and coercion-indeed,
all arts that play upon the sordid side OF men
ana nations, and that use dark and tortuous
secrecy; but to settle an international affair
openly in the fair field of intelligent discussion
Is an innovation that a statesman of the old
school regards with suspicion.-Rev. Frank
crane, Methodist, Chicago, Ill.
sPIRITUALIsM.
What is known as modern spiritualism does
not necessarily differ from true Christianity
save on one point-the possibility and fact of
spirit communication between this world and
the splr1tland. AS to the fact that there Is q
spirit land, and that there are spirits there,
ana that these spirits are the souls of departed
trends, and that we shall see them again, we
are all spiritualists.-Rey. B. F. Duncan, Con-
gregat1onalist, Utica, Ill.
HEAVEN.
The belief in mutual recognition in the heav-
enly world is as natural and as universal as
morality of the soul. Memory will accom-
pany US. Death does not effect so great a
change as many suppose. 1t is not so much q
transformer of character as transferer of real
personality into new state of existence under
different conditions.-Rev. Amos Sherman,
Baptist, Woonsocket, R. 1.
NAPOLEON.
His was the genius of death. His name
spelled horror and destruction and wounds
and famine and blood and fire to countless
thousands, Children were taught to curse
hlm who had slain their fathers; mothers
cursed him who had slain their sons. Strip his
robes from him, dismiss his attendants, send
nome the horses and carriages and what is
left? A scientific butcher of men-a prince of
death.-Rev. Hudson Stuck, Episcopalian, Dali
las, Texas.
ISLANDER.
What right have you to defame your neigh
bers character? How easy it is to take around
little story about your neighbor, and how Of
ten we find that those least merciful to their
ne1ghbors are the very ones who have skele-
mas been driven to despair and subsequent
rash doings by the malicious tongues of others.
Dacey Catholic, Lowell, Mass.
UNITY.
l believe it would DO US all good could we put
Catholic and Protestant, the Baptist and Uni
Yersalist, together and tell them to find out
What Is common to them ALL and l have faith
to think what is common to all would be what
is best in each and thus living out what is
botn common and best we should find pure
Lee 5. McCollester, Universalist Detroit, Mich.
TRAMPs.
Four causes are assigned for men becoming
tramps: First, the drink habit; second, the
love. OF wandering; third. the evil effects of
the indiscriminate budding together of men
and boys in our jails; fourth, this same indis-
crimiDate mixing of country and city boys in
our reformatory schools. The number of peo-
pie leading this wandering life in our country
is estimated to be at least twice the size of the
standing army.-Rev. Alexander Lewis, Con-
gregat1onallst Worcester, Mass.
THE RELIGIOUS AGE.
There has never been an age when men took
such an extraordinary interest in religion.
The secular papers devote columns to the con-
Salvation Army. The President of the United
States pres1des at a meeting in the interest OF
missions. Services for business men attract
enormous congregations in the two great CON-
mercial cities of the New World-Rev. W. w.
Maeley, Episcopalian, Westchester, Pa.
AFTER DEATH.
We shall be somewhere certainly. Any
where we choose to go, imagine. Freed from
the body, the law OF gravitation will no longer
hold us to the earth. Hunger and thirst, cold
end heat. will no longer trouble us. AS a
spirit the whole planetary system will be our
or from world to world at will or dance down
the corridors of space TO the music of the
spheres-Rev. L. H. Squires, Universalist,
Rochester, N. Y.
The desire to get rich has become in this
country of ours fever, mania, an insanity.
1t is golden poison in the veins of our people
ing the beauty, the grandeur and mobility of
our American character. One of the outcomes
of this greed for money is the corporation,
and tell you that the struggle ofthe twentieth
century will be between the individual Ameri-
can and the American corporation.zRev.
George c. Lorimer, Baptist. Boston, Mass
MONEY AND RELIGION.
Money and religion are the two greatest con-
of One all that nprtainS
to this world, and the other all that relates to
the world to come. Accordingly we see that
one of the chief tendencies of men is to keep
their money for themselves as long as they
can and then control it after they are dead,
if possible. But there is still stronger pro-
pensity to make other people accept their reli-
gion while they are here, and then to enforce
it some way upon mankind when they are
gone.-Rev. ]. c. Jackson, Methodist. Colum-
bus, Ohio.
sTATUARY.
There has been some opposition to placing
the statue of Marquette in the pantheon Of
great men at Washington because he is
him in a swallow-tail and plug hat, or in
cutaway and knickerbockers and tan shoes.
sucking a cigarette? dress coat made out of
marble or bronze is not thing of beauty A
sculptor has much trouble with standing col
lar in granite. There are some hideous
images around Washington. 1 would dislike
to see Pere Marquette looking as If he was
about to attend Vanderbilt wedding.-Rev.
Myron Reed, Independent, Denver, Col.
IMMIGRATION.
We do not despise foreigner because he is a
foreigner. Some of our very best citizens are
foreigners, either of foreign birth or parent
age, and yet they are loyal 10 America and
American institutions. But the vast majority
who seek our shores are the scum of all ma
tions. They come to this Nation with no re-
spect for religion, no respect for government,
no respect for home, destitute of morals,
vicious and contemplate tramps and vaga-
bonds. No sooner have they set foot on our
shores than they begin to corrupt society
They despise religion; they despise restraint.
They love only that which is vile and debaseo
Infidelity is their religion, the saloon is their
church, anarchy their creed.-Rev. E. N. Allen,