San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-04
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Epitome Of Sermons Of Week by
Eminent Clergymen of All De-
nominations.
LOOKING BACKWARD.-The past
has a power The wise man is the
man who sometimes looks back on his
track.-Rev. w. III. Pulsford, Episco-
palian, Waltham, Mass.
Observation-Disclosures is not COM
pleted with the graduation at school.
1t must be a process as endless as
eternity itself.-Rev. T. j. Mackay,
Episcopalian, Omaha.
MYSTERY OF THE HUMAN
There is enough mysteries in one man
to occupy a whole lifetime to study.
We don't need to teach birds to sing
Rev. j. III. Miller, Methodist, Pitts
burg, Pa.
CHURCH UNITY.-The churches
are realizing one common cause, the
welfare of humanity; one common en-
envy, sin; one common lover, Christ
Rev. Walter Dole, Universalist, En-
field, N II.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. minded
people are always unhappy from the
fact that they do not look ahead and
search for the outcome. Look at life
broadly and you can not fail to Ebe
happier.-Rev. e. NJ. Wood, Methodist,
Allegheny, Pa.
METHODISM.-T Methodist
church has grown until today one out
of every fourteen persons, one out of
every five Christians and one out of
every three Protestant church men,
bers is Methodist-Rev. w. ].
Thompson, Methodist, Worcester,
Mass.
VIRTUE AMID VICE.-The SUI
preme object of preaching is to show
that we can be both righteous and
busy; that we can live heavenly lives
while standing down upon the ground
among things that are earthly.-Rev.
DR.. Colvile, Presbyterian, jamestown,
N. Y.
LIFE.-Life is a devine education.
Happy are we if we can believe in our
heart of hearts that life is perpetual
| discipline whose end is perfection of
| character in Gods own image.-Rev.
j. w. Churchill, Congregationalist,
Nashua, N. II.
| HUMAN SFFFERING.-Suffe
is partly the product of sin, partly of
ignorance. 1t is desinged for correc-
ton and perfection. 1t stimulates
men intellectually, thus leading to dis
covery, invention and universal prog
ress.-Rev. ]. II. Crum, Congregation
alist, Terre Haute, Ind.
| THE DEVINE LIFE.-Christ show
| ed that the devine life can be lived
! anywhere-in city, country, howell, pal
ace; in the midst of besetments and
| temptations, poverties or riches
| wherever the method of Christ is fol-
| lowed.-Rev. DIR. Webb, Independent,
Baltimore.
| JOURNALISM American
press has become a powerful factor
| an Unreasonable one. 1t can take a
bad politician and destroy him.
Across the water they call Americans
degenerates, yet we have 100000
newspapers and periodica&.-Rev. III.
NJ. Gallaher, Baptist, Brooklyn.
MAN AND wOMAN.-The subjec-
ton of the wife to the husband in the
family is the key to the woman ques-
ton. The unit is not the individual,
either man or waman, but the welded
pair. Man was created first and in
vested with dominion.-Rev. j. NJ.
Foster, Presbyterian, Boston.
THE RIGHT ROAD.-There are no
short cuts. There is no royal road to
knowledge. Many young men rely
upon their smartness, others on their
wealth or social position, but these
without earnest, faithful work will
not bring success.-Rev. G. w. Biddle,
Universalist, Spencer, Mass.
HYPOCRISY.-We should be care
full against setting our religious pro-
fession above our life, as in coming to
holy communion irreverently or being
demonstrative or making parade of re-
ligion while our lives are not what
they ought to be.-Rev. A. A. Cairns,
Episcopalian, Newport, VT.
right that the Turks should massacre
the Armenians. The powers of the
world should step in and stop it. 1t
is not right that Spain should crush
patriots in Cuba, and this country