The morning times., 1896-11-23

The triumph OF truth is worth more than
physical life. II is better to lose life and
save principle than to lose principle and
s"N' ''te. ls,aftyruJm IN At good ,ause, not
useless squandering of life. The graves
OF The martyrs mark the onward march Of
truth. whenever human chara cter has been
fearlessly committed to truth. that truth
has won.-Rev. S. c. Anderson, Congregd-
tionalist, Toledo, Ohio.
PAUPERIsM AND CRIME.
The saloon is the greatest breeder Of
pauperism and crime there Is. tits not
the man with a clear mind and eye, who
Is holding good position, that commits
crime; 1t is the It,ah with-a ruined life
and brain reeling with liquor. Last year
there were 10000 murders committed in
America, and of these nearly 10000 Were
the direct result OF liquor.-Rev. DIR. Will
iams, Evangelist, Marshalltown, Iowa.
THE, TURK.
/ would advocate, this country sending Il
manifesto to the European powers asking
that they let us 5isht the issues with
Turkey, with a fair riield and no favor.
''Wiii YOU let us send our White Squadron
TO the land Of the 'Unspeakable Turk and
stop this slaughter? 1t is n fight in the
Interest of all humanity; VIII you let us give
the Sick Man quick death and quicker
burial?-Rev. d. j. Rurrell, Collegiate
NHuiSn, Ne". 1OTk Clty.
NAN AND GOD.
Man has done many and wonderful things
III life; he has gridironed the earth with
railroads: he has traversed the broad seas
with his ships; he has pushed his race
To the very out-stations of the globe, hut he
could never have formed the plan for the
redemption of his fellows. II was because
the world, byits own wisdom, knew not God
that sod revealed Himself and His mighty
plan in His son.-Rev. W. F Smiley, Presby-
teran, HolmeSburg Pa.
MOTHERHOOD.
The mother shapes the boys character
Her face the first sight her arms the first
refuge, her life the first example. But for
Rachael and her training the history of
Joseph and of the Jewish nation would have
bcenentrely different The hand hatrock
the cradle rocks the world The time for
seed planting OF true greatness is in the
early years OF n boys life: this Is the
mothers opportunity. Rev. 7. c. Easton,
Presbyterian, Washington, d. c.
THE COMMON PEOPLE.
Each life Is intended of God to have its
part and influence in the great life-aggre-
gate of the ages. Some by birth, pecuII ar
gifts or conditions become more conSpicu-
Gus; yet those Of lowlier place who live
their purpose share in Gou's thought a
pan ioV W ibr tSIIsetI. anu tiic suD>IstHIitl
element of every ge Is Unat of the comm IN
people, the life of whom is one long quiet
service for the ennoblng OF the race
Rev /. NJ. Chambers, Presbyterian, Mer-
chantville, y. j.
THE JEWS.
An examination of Christianity is alb
solutcly impossible without an investica-
ton int" Judaism, its language, liturgy,
literature andlawS. Jesus OF Nazareth was
Jew, his apostles We're Jews the ethics
taught by them Were Jewish ethics. The
maNims taught by Jesus We're maxims
Taught by Jewish rabbiS. The ideas taught
by the Jews in that time We're the self
same ideas taught before the possibility
of a universal Christianity ever aruse.-
Rabh Noorsanger, Hebrew, San Francisco,
Cal
CERTAINTIES IN RELIGION,
Christianity sits on thrones. prcsides in
courts of justice, discourses in college
halls, and bie>ses every nation that listens
TO its teaCliu&S, What power must be-
resident III il? Who can account for il if
it be not from Godr 1t is law Of thought
that every effect Fitpst have an adequate
cause. Not simply . cause, but an adequate
one. Consider Inc triunphs of Christianity
and you can find no grlIeradequa,e cause
but this, that God. the omnipotent. is in
the midst OF it.-RevJ X. II. Hull, Baptist
Brooklyn, y Y.
REFLECTION.
We are screens to shut away the light
from others. or retleCtorS to intensity it
The character that is rich in Christian
graces throws heavens light into every
chilled nook. The plant hidden away from
the light by accident declines and dies as
really as though il had been willrully OBJ
scured. So our negligence may result as
fatally as our wilIful unkiDdneSses When
you stand between n soul and the light OF
the sun OF righteousness you act as a de-
terrent TO every virtue and the promoter
of every vice.-Rev. A. z. Conrad, Congre-
sationalist, Worcester. Mass.
CHRISTIANITY.
Christianity is making a persistent effort
throughout the rldfor the conquest ofthe
whole race. 1t makes no executions. il
orits no land, no class of men, no business
interests, no department of Thought Like
light, ii demands all the world for its pos-
session. Not for itself, but to fiji it, to en-
liGhtenit, to enrchit, to gjveit living soul
FOR Cnristlanity's eIIOrt is to become the
living soul of every life, of every thought. of
every purpose, OF every work, of all things,
great and small, throughout the world
Rev. J. T. Egbert, Presbyterian St Paul.
MINI.
THE GOSPEL.
There is a growing yearning in the hearts
Of Inen to know whether the Gospcl is still
as il was nf old, the pow er OF God. Can it
tighten care S burdens? Canitso solacc tn dis
appointed? Can ii sustain the timorous?
Can il strengthen for enduring trials? Can
II smooth tn pillow and brighten I h visions
of the dying? These are the Questions nut
To those who profess to having experienced
the Gospel. To such queries those only can
respond who live thelifc the Gospel outlines,
and to which it spake its imperative
summons. f very Gospel inspiredIifr being
watched and studed.-Rev. NJ. NJ. Dana,
Congregationalist, Brooklyn, Y.
THE ToRToIsEAN THE HARE.
No fable Of ancient or modern times
teaches a truer lesson than that of thc tor
tolsc and the hare. These animals ran "A
race. The hare started as If shot from a
cannon, and was soon so far ahead that she
lay down to sleep. As the sHift-footed
racer slept the slow paced tortoise cane
up, passed on and was first at the goal
a human snail that creeps right on will
get further in a lifetime than race horse
that only trots spurt now and then. The
man who walks brskly three hours day
will in seven years have walked as lar as
around the world. Man does not need the
strength of an elephant to do great things;
he needs the perseverance of the tortoise
Rev. DR.. Gulette, Methodist, Cincinnati,
Ohio.