The Republican journal., 1896-08-13
am no longer free to believe the contrary.
Rev. F. II. Wall, Catholic, New York.

am no longer free to believe the contrary.
Rev. F. Il. WALL Catholic, New York.
LOVE. Love-self- renouncing love-is
religion, and nothing else can be worthy
of the name; love, that is blind to sell
and that sees others only; love, that
knows each true life lives for all and all
for each; love, that mounts to heaven by
STOPPING to the lowliest need of earth.
Rev. L. B. johnson, Baptist, Lynn,
Mass.
| OUTSIDE THE CHURCH. The Christian
outside the Church is in an unnatural DO
sition He is always liable to topple over.
He is trying to get on without all the ad-
vantages that Christ and all the apostles
enjoyed and needed. He is deprived of
much that God had planned for the help
of the human soul. Rev. Wallace Nut
ting, Congregationalist Providence
THE Cross. The cross raises itself
above all Christians, whether they recog-
nize it or not. The cross is a symbol to-
day to which all point as the basis of their
hope, because upon it was sacrificed the
son of the living God, who came down
from his place in heaven beside his eter-
| Lidl Il etticl W Ittlttlu ldlltL men. BlSnOD
E. j, Dunno, Catholic. Dallas, Tex.
ENVIRONMENT. Environment and he
redity are something. 1t may be conced-
ed that they are much. But history shows
that they are not masterful in life. Neither
| Strattord- on-Avon nor his ancestry made
| Shakespeare, nor can Abraham Lincoln S
greatness be accounted for by his birth or
the environment of his youth. Rev. j.
c. Snow, Universalist Haverhill, Mass.
TODAY AND To MORROW. We should
live each day as though it was our last.
Eternal issues may be packed into a single
moment; there are vast possibilities in
small compass. To-day is the parent of
to- morrow. Every day is a critical peri
cd, every hour contains the spirits of mo-
ments unborn. No moment liveth unto
itself. The days are sacred in each other S
| eyes. This is the day of opportunity
Rev. E. d. Burr, Baptist, Boston.
BICYCLING. The wheel is welcome be-
cause 1t democratizes the people like the
| public school. 1t brings all classes to-
gether. You can tell the rich by their
equipages-the Nanderbilts, the Goulds
and Astors by their turnouts-but YOU
can not tell the social position of bicycle
rider. 1t levels society 1t is a demo-
cratic vehicle, and Larmonizes with our
| spirit of American institutions. Rev. D.
B, GREGG, Presbyterian, Baltimore.
VICES OF THE AGE. The prevalent
vices of our time are fastening to be rich,
extravagant living. riskful and ruinous
| speculations, undue crowding into profess
sional life, pressing from the country into
the cities, striving after public office, gen
eral impatience and restlessness, willing
ness to put on false show in unsolid build
lngS, IN paste jewelry, in veneering gen
orally. Rev. Ii. W. Ballentine. Congre-
gationalist, Philadelphia.
STRENGTH. History is the record of the
persistent conquest of the weak over the
strong. Civilization does indeed qualify
and modify the character of strength. SO
that the powerful of one period are not
necessarily powerful in another. Brute
force is constantly undone by intellect
and even intellect must bow to the finer
and nobler influences of the heart and
spirit. Rev. G. w. F. Douglas. Episco-
paiau, New Haven.
SOUL HUNGER. When the body is hun
CRY, 1T Graves that which it can not itself
supply; when it is thirsty, it wants some
thing which it can not itself satisfy The
soul thirsty, looks, longs for something it
can not produce. This very craving and
unrest of the soul show state of depend
ence on some higher power The human
soul, with all its passions and selfishness,
thirsts for something beyond itself. REV
G. F, kenngott, Unitarian, Lowell, Mass
FIGHTERS WANTED. We need more
fighters. Luther was a fighter, and hence
the reformation; Washington was fight
er, and hence our own beloved country;
Grant was fighter, and we have united
people free from slavery. Give us more
| fighters for the TRUTH temperance, indus
try, righteousness. Give us more iron in
the blood, more sand in the character, to
the end that more may lay hold on the
eternal life. Rev. A. Y. Newton, Con-
gregationalist, Brooklyn.
| The CHURCH IN PoLITICs. The time
| is coming when the church will demand
that all the chief places in the city govern
ment shall be filled with men whose per-
sonal character does command high re-
spect. Il is high time to cease tolerating
the presence of any man as city official
| WIZ 10 lllnSCiI uduu duu glove Will Ludl
which is most degrading. The democratic
Christian church has right to make de-
mands and to enforce them. Rev. E. M.
Fairchild, Unitarian, Troy, n. Y.
CHRIST THE ARCHITECT. The people
thought that Jesus was a carpenter of
barns and houses, and not Christ the car
penter of the world. Cheops built the
pyramid $50 feet high, Christ the Hima-
layas Is, 900 feet high; De Lesseps scooped
out the Suez Canal, Christ made the val
leys for the seas; Roebling built the
Brooklyn bridge, uniting New York and
Brooklyn, Jesus Christ built the bridge
of salvation, stretching from heaven to
earth. [Rev. Dr.. Clymer, Methodist,
Troy, n. y.
The DUTY OF THE STATE. 1t is the
| duty of the State to throw its protecting
arms about the humblest and the poorest;
] to protect the weak from the strong; to
see that each one has the right to labor
and to enjoy the fruits of his labor, pro-
| vded always that his efforts be put forth
with due regard to the rights of others; to
keep from starvation those who are men
tally or physically unable to work; to
guard the individual in the possession of
his natural rights-life, liberty, property
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