The San Francisco call., 1896-04-18
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PROGRESS
An EpitOme Of Sermons Of the Week
Throughout the Land.

Following is q summary of the principal
sermons recently delivered in the United
States and Canada by the leading clergy
men, priests, prelates, religious teachers
and professors of the Christian faith. In
every instance the full text has been care
fully read and abbreviated.
INCoNsTArCY.
1t is better to be skeptic than to be untrue to
ones intuitions, ones reason or ones con-
science.-Rev. L. B. Voorhees,, Methodist, Nor
folk, Va.
The radical vice of the times is the desire to
get some thing for nothing, or as near to moth
ing as possible.-Rev Henry Hopkins, Congre-
gationalist, Kansas City, Mo.
VIRTUE.
A life of sanctity and purity is more DO.
tent example for men to live by than any
amount of creeds and doctrines.-Rev. R. A.
Van Fosseh, Presbyterian, Allegheny, Pa.
EQUALITY.
Every person born on this earth has the in
coming evil tendencies. gaining in the end life
eternaL-Rev. Ida c. Hultin, Unitarian, Mo-
line, Ill.
THE PRESS.
The daily papers are terrors to evildoers.
vice and crime are kept in check through fear
of their power to check and expose. Reputa-
ton is dear even to the consclenceless-Rev.
Theodore Clifton, Congregationalfst, Chicago,
Ill.
THE HOME.
The ideal home begins in marriage. man
or woman may have a room where he or she
stays, but that is not home. The priest
comes the nearest having a home without
having one.-Rev. E. NJ. Wood, Methodist, AL
leghany Pa.
The great need of the world is g religion
which can harmonic the interest of the indi-
vidual with the interests of society, which can
make the desire of the individual and the de-
society NJ
II: Blgelow, Congregationalist, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
oRAToRY
We have all heard speakers who were rhetori-
cal and oratorical, but they said nothing.
Every staten ent should be clear. Some people
who are called deep muddy. Like some
Florida streams in the intellectual world,
clearness and depth go together.-Rev. w. H.
moore, Prespyterlan, Doylestown, Pa.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.
Relig lous liberty is the most resplendent
gem in Columbia's diadem. Let not this jewel
be dimmed by narrow-mindedness and fanat-
ieism This is a free religious country, and
church and synagogue, with the aid of the free
press, are the powers behind the throne.-Rev.
H. Wmtner, Hebrew, Brooklyn, N. Y.
WORK.
by whom it is done A dollar of help is a dol
lar to be credited on the right side of Gods
hand OF the refined or the begrimed hand Of
the art1san.-Rev. Richard Harcourt, Metho-
dist Philadelphia, Pa.
TODAY AND TOMORROW.
To-day the riches of the world, and the
pleasures OF the world, and the honors of the
world are the things which clsmor for your
attention and for your life, and you are to
make max choice between them and the glory
that shall be revealed hereafter.-Rev. DR.
smart, Methodist memphis, Tenn.
MUNICIPAL EVILS.
There are, three organized iniquities, para
sites on modern city lie, which threaten every
the organized purveyor to drunkenness; the
brothel, the organized caterer to human lust
and na.. the gambling hell, which is the business
manager Tor the gambling mania.-Rev. j. F,
Stout, Methodist, st. Paul, Mimi.
GOD AND MAN.
God governs in the life of man by trusting
each with some gift. No outward array, no
numbers, nor mere statistical army, counts in
unto its IDEAL one single soul sweet in charity
and true to heavenly instincts brings the king
dom OF God near.-Rev. William H. Rider,
Unlyersalist Gloucester, Mass.
THE TURKS.
The Turkish Government has no right to
exist 1t is fast dying. Heaven and earth are
against It. On the wall the handwriting of
destruction is already visible. The persecution
fanatlcal hatred of Mos1em to Christianity, and
through the results of this same hatred the
Tnnnaa D,,0mah ps empire Will perish Rev. K. B.
MANHOOD.
The true type of ideal manhood is not the
ascetic man with his starved and weakened
physical development, but the athletic man in
whom all faculties are keenly alive, but held
in equipoise by the predominance of the moral
law In every part of his being. Not outward
weakness, but inward strength, must be the
test oil morality in life.-Rev. A. L. Hudson,
Unitarian, Salt Lake City, Utah.
WEALTH.
Spiritual riches, the riches of eternity, are
open to all, whether rich or poor in this
world goods, and they will ne given to those
who seek them in proper spirit. If we can't
nave both there is but one choice. Give US
the riches of God in preference to the wealth
OF man, for the former insures eternal happl.