The morning times., 1896-11-30

| ~ 10 IL, Nj nuay, W NeUEPSQaN, IHurScuy,
and Saturday evenings, q to g.
RECONCILIATION FREE.-6a
all social and kinship relations, must
| first be baptized and then employed TO
| Godfrey. l. NJ. Chambers, Presbyterian,
+ Merchantville, n. j.
THEoSOPHY.
Theosophy tea hesa manto know himself
| TO detect the finer forces OF nature and his
relation To all that lives, and to obey
! the laws THAI govern him is the path to
| happiness and progress here and here
| after. There is but one authority for be-
lief, that is the individual conception Of
| truth. Each ones belief ami conception
will differ from those of others, hence
! theosophy teaches liberation toward all. -
| DR.. Allen Griffiths, TheosophSt, Sau Fran
cisco, Cal
JNCOMPLETENESS.
In field and flood, in plant and animal,
| His will is done; but when you come into
the realm Of human lif., there Is rebellion.
failure, disaster; you find men strong,
brave and true, but incomplete, failures
| Hence, you have .he sad stories of the
weakness Of the strong man. the cowardice
of the brave man, the folly of the wise
man, the impatien,e of the patient man.
| They always stop short Of Co.'s ideal. -
|
delphia, Pa.
WORK
God hath ordained that W ork alone brings
peace. ASK the laborer at the forge or
factory, ask him who shapes his t!oak Of
| stone or II oids his pillar of trass, or POL
| ishes his weed. or Ieifccts his tool, ana
the workman VIII tell you that orest toll
gives a sweet peace that wealth cannot
increase nor poverty take away. Tor God
nath ordained that the heart shall sing
| when the hand does honest and onoratlc
| work. k.-Rev. ID. N Hills independent, Chi
| CaSo.
THE NATIONS NEED.
The church's opportunity is 10 supply
| ihe nations reed by preaching Christ as
| the Saviour of society as well as of the in
dividual. Also, 10 practice ms teachings
and obey His law in The world. We pray
for millennial days; we shall hasten them
| when i'll tusir ess, social and poli ical life
| wedothe pleas ures fthe King. The worlds
| Standard Of business is wICEg, and oar
| social caste is hcathenish, not Christian.
Rev. J. X. Montgomery, Presby tcrian,
Cincinnati, o.
CHURCH WORK
The church attracts to it persons who
| are themselves attracted and rcpeis those
who have nothing 10 do. Christ never
| sought any one. He was over careful TO
rcpcl them. He told them they would be
| stoned, cast out OF the synagogue; men
would speak evil of them, and they would
even be crucificd, as He was TO be. All
this they were to expect. He sought no
| one. The early church sought no one. He
and ilischurch rested on anesscntial founda
tior. - Rev. S. ID. Mcconnell Episco-
pdlian Brooklyn, n. Y.
PROFIT AND LOSS.
We are continually considering the queS-
| ton OF profit and loss. There is not a
more perplexing question than deciding
our choice of vocation in starting out in
| life, but Il question Of greater value is the
ali important question OF our souls. Where
is there really any profit outside OF the
| question OF our souls? There are things
OF the world that are valuable, such as
wealth, glory, honor, and pleasure, but
they ali pass away. Menofter reach these
but what have they" They all pass away,
but the soul exists forever.-Rev Dr. Col.
iins, Methodist, Louisville. Ky.
THE TRUE FOUNDATION.
The church of God is compared to an
ediiIce, II is called a temple, a habitation
of God through the spirit. The founda-
ton or rock upon which this church is built
is Christ. Holy men and prophets and
| apostles are all stones in this Supcrstructurc
but Christ alone is the foundation bearing
aii its massive weight. Whether we con-
slider the Church OF God in its militant
state on earth or its triumphant state in
heaven, Christ is the basis of the whole
Each and all of Gods family spiritually
rests wholly upon Christ as the cfounda;ion-
Rev. S. Il. EaynitZ. Lutheran, Des MoineS.
Iowa.
CHARITY AND SYMPATHY.
There must be a sympathy, love, and
cOmpamonsllp in all our gifts. There are
hundreds and thousands rushing TO darkness
and doom for the want of a cheering word
and the belief that some one cares for
them, and for the want ofthe sympathy and
love that might go even with the little
gifts that we do give. People subscribe
10 funds to aid the poor n the slums, but
they never 20 there themselves and see
where their money goes. If those who are
charitably inclined visited the poor in per-
son and added words OF sympathy Cnnso-
lation. and love TO their other gifts, trere
would be less misery in the slums and a
great many more souls saved.-Rev W.
k. Pcrrctt, Presbyterian, Clinton, \. Y.
MEN AND ANGELS.
There is greater dignity in being man
than in Icing an angel. His relations are
nearer and the dignity conferred on rim is
higher than that conferred on an angel
Hence, being man means being next To
God Himself. A man is not an imitation.
A man is not two-legged animal, as the
philosopher, Plato, once defined him. But
a man is the friend of God, possessing the
earth, inheriting heaven, crowned With
glory and honor-one who thinks, reasons,
acts and lives, conscious of destiny and
conscious of immortality, which links him
to the throne of God and makes him a
Join heir with the Son Of the Highest
Rev. W. L. Austen, Presbyterian, Balti-
more.
WORSHIP OF NATIONS.
1t makes a great difference to a nation
what gods they worship. You may judge
people by their religious sentiment Those
| who worship calves will resemble calves
in intelligence. Those who have made
nature their god have found lust and sense
to be the constraining attributes of their
divinity. If science be god, morals will be
deductions from mechanism. II nothing
be god, then nothing will satisfy, and
niliilism is logical. Such is the showing of
history and the testimony OF oontCm
poraneous fact. The man of sober sense
sees that there is hut one abiding object
of confidence for any people = the Creator
and Ruler of the heaven and the earth.
-Rev. s. g. Nelson, Baptist, Brooklyn,
N. 7.
GODS WAY.
Life Is school in which souls are
taught by the orderings as well as by the
word of God. Man deserves punishment
he, no doubt, merits reprObation; even at
his best he is an unprofitable servant;
but Gods concern is wholly with the
salvation of souls. He is not working on
the basis Of judgment. By various means
He would purify and enoble His children,
and to this end he uses joys and sorrows,
successes and failures, as well as Bibles
and pulpits and sacrament and religious