The San Francisco call., 1896-04-04
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PROGRESS

An Epitome of the Sermons Of tire
Week.
Following is a summary of the principal
sermons recently delivered in the United
States and Canada by the leading cIergymen,
stessors of the Christian faith. In every in
stance the full text has been carefully read and
abbreyiated.)
PARENTAGE.
The responsibility of man to man is exact
ing, but the responsibility of parents to chill
dren is thousand times more exacting.-Rev.
Monslgnor Thorpe, Catholic, Cleveland, Ohio
KINDNESS.
Kindness is the fruit of love. Kindness tells
of the heaven in the heart. True kindness is
sistent and persistent.-Rev. W. T. Thompson,
Presbyterian, Charleston, s. c..
THE SALOON.
The saloon is the personification of selfish
ness, misery and eternal ruin. 1t stands only
for selfishness, to the sacrifice of every other
interest. 1t is Satans great ally in crime
Rev. ]. A. Davis, Presbyterian, Nyack, N. Y.
SUICIDE.
Suicide, or self-murder, is the gravest crime
because it takes life, the most sacred trust
given to man-because it wentonly intrudes
upon right which solely belongs to God
Rev. S. ]. Mcpherson, Presbyterian. Chicago,
Ill.
1t may cost something to properly save boy
from becoming a criminal, but it will cost the
State and city much more if they permit him
to become habitual law breaker.-Rey. r. A.
White, Universalist, Chicago, Ill.
THE SALVATION ARMY.
The trouble with the Salvation Army is there
is nothing back OF it. Men are converted and
real nor substantial for them to lay hands on.
Rev. w. Delafield, Episcopal Church, Ill.
CHURCH UNITY.
There can never be union of the denomina-
tions excepting upon the basis OF consistency
and conservation. When all sects live alike
close to Christ in practical, everyday living
then union will be possible.-Rev. Dr.. Euster,
Methodist, Spokane, Wash.
RELIGIOUS WOMEN.
Are not women more religious than men?
Even at the time of Christ women displayed
more religious fervor than men; they were the
last in attendance at the crucifixion and first
at the tomb of the resurrection.-Rev. D. M.
Kirkpatrick, Universalist, Tonawanda, N. Y.
GOD AND NATURE.
Nature is not one thing and we another. We
do not see nature and not see God. Nature is
can be touched, handled and tested, and God
simply an abstraction.-Rey. w. K. Hunt Uni
tartan, Duxbury, Mass.
sTATEsMANsHIP.
The public welfare is the mark aimed at by
the right-miIided statesman. An arrow barbed
with malice or winged with mere personal am
bitiOn will never hit the mark OF the peoples
love or win the victory for freedom and JUS
tlce. - Kew. george Batcne.Or, unitarian,
Lowell, Mass.
THE BAPTISTS.
The Baptists are broad and tolerant reli-
gious body. The catholicity belongs to them.
They are called the bgots of bigots, but on the
contrary they are the Protestants of the Pro-
testants, the dissenters of the dissenters, the
separatists of the separatists.-Rev. C. H.
Spaulding, Baptist, Boston, Mass.
HEAVEN AND HE'LL.
There are just about as many hells and heav-
ems as there are human beings, and of just
about as many Sizes We shape ourselves the
joy or fear of which the coming life is made
in other words each man makes his own place
in this life and the next.-Rev. l.. H. Squires,
Universalist, Rochester, n. Y.
PRAYER.
Prayer is not of the lips, nor of the intellect.
II there is any reality in prayer 1t grasps the
whole being in its appeal to God. Prayer takes
hold on life, and the life that cannot be prayed
Is defective, and the prayer that cannot be
lived is defective.-Rev. Robert Meredith, Con-
gregationatist, Brooklyn. n. Y.
PRACTICAL RELIGION.
Religion is not garment to be hung about
the shoulders on the first day of the week, and
to be thrown aside for the other six. Men must
realize that religion is a practical thing, and
that it can be taken as vital factor into our
everyday Gves.-Rev. Claude Travis, Metho-
dist, Frankfort, Ind.
EQUALITY.
man is man in the Scriptures and nothing
more. All stand on the same level. The Bible
is q book that brings society TO q common