The morning times., 1896-05-18

CONVERSATION.
The tone of conversation is the keynote
of the moral influence. 1t is rot necessary
to be as learned as Aristotle or sage as
Diogenes to be instructive i'll conversation
The wit which handles instruction win
ningly and honestly is the conversauonalist
admired The frivolous buffoonery to win
laugh only is soon forgotten and its place
void unless covered by nettles.-Rev. W.
A. Colledge, Indepe ndent, Aurora, III.
THE FAITHFUL FRIEND.
Friendship may tire, ties of affection be
rudely broken. but there is always one
friend, kind and true, and that is He, who
sacrificed His life for you. No years can
weaken his love for you. He has heen
with you from the first, and he will be with
you at the end, whether we have strayed
away from him or not Rev. John nj. Kiely,
Catholic, Brooklyn, n. Y.
THE BEAUTIFUL.
Man is the only Great ture on earth which
has an Unborn love of the beautiful. No
other animal can appreciate it. When
God made man the lover of the beautiful,
He intended that man should be the creator
of the beautiful. Beautiful poems aud
paintings and sculpture all men may not
create but they can do beautiful deeds and
acts to their fellow men, Rev. George c.
Lorimer, Baptist, Boston, Mass.
PUNISHMENT.
The less we think of rewards the more
Christ-H We shall become. To grow
goodness in men and women, human
hearts must be fed on goodness. Love
must be quickened by love, not rear.
1t is not knowledge OF the Ten Command
ments that make men and women better,
any more than prisons make men and
women better. The fact is that punish
ment does not improve. The man within
the prisons wall behaves himself because
| he dares not do otherwise. The man In
| fear of prison behaves because he fears
| the consequences Rev. W. II. Rider, Uni
| versalst, Gloucester, Mass
INGERSOLL.
| Col Ingersoll has a right to speak, il he
| believes what he says. and in some respects
| he ma have done some good. but he has
! Knocked sacred things, reviled the church,
belittled the pulpit, and, though doing the
| latter he is the most Consummate repeater
before the people. He is called humane and
/ sympa athetic. If this is so. why should he
want TO take the soiace OF religion from
| mems lives? The fact is, he is no more
humane than the average man. else he
| would not knock the crutch out OF the
grasp of the cripple. He pleads for toIera-
kton and is himself intolerant. He pleads
for justice, but is not just-Rev. s. n.
Robin, Unlversaiist, Boston, Mass.
THE CONFESSIONAL.
The doctrines of Christ have, one by one
in succeeding generations, shared the fate
| of their divine teacher ana have been perse-
| cuted, blasphemed, and denied. The doc
trine of Confession" has, in a more es-
pecial manner, excited the antipathy of the
world; and enemies have declared that this
| doctrine is not founded on the Bbie-that
is an invention of later days-that as q
remedy for sin, too severe. Brushing aside
| these gratuitous ass ertions l maintain that
the doctrine OF uricular confession was fore
| shadowedin the Old law, is taugh in thenw
and that 1t has always been pracuced by the
| church of Christ. TO the great benefit OF
| morality-Rev. Father Boarman. Catholic
of st. Louis, Mo. at Seattle, Wash.