The morning times., 1896-10-12


States by the leading clergymen, priests,
prelates, religious teachers and profess
sors OF the Christian faith. In every in
stance the text has been carefully read
and abbreviated:
P0PULISTS.
The Populist is the most down-trodden
man on earth. The weeds got his crops,
| the buzzards get his horses and the sheriff
gets him. Rev. Sam, Jones, evangelist, at
| Terre Hause, Ind.
ANARCHY.
Anarchy Is chaos, Carkness, and how
does it contrast with God? God is order.
He is law, and the contrast is an infinite
one Rev. Dr. Doolittle, Congrcgationalist,
New II Haven, Conn.
FINANCE.
| The great trouble in the financial world
| today is the lack Of faith and lack of hon
| esty among men. Pure thou ghts and honest
| dealings are the issue in the financial sys-
tem.-Rev. W. j. Brougher, BAPTIST, Patcr-
son, n. ].
CHURCH MEMBERS.
1t is To church members that the world
looks for its moral example. The church
should not be hospital for moral weak
| lings, but strong ana aggressive 1nstru-
ment of the right.-Rev 7. {. Warner,
Methodist, Baltimore, Md.
MODERATION.
Moderation is the golden mean between
| two vices the vice of excess on the one
| hand and the vice of deficiency on the
other. A number Of virtues lie In this
middle state.-Rev. j. R. Miller, Presby-
terian. Philadelphia, P a.
TRUTH.
| It is the truth despised and re jected of
men that redeems the soul thrown open
20 receive it. You will find when You
identify yourself with the despiscd truth
| that God is close at hand.-Rev. NJ. II
Marvin, Methodist, Spokane, Wash.
CHRIST.
Christ today is the central figure in
the thoughts of the civilized world, and
is becoming more and more so daily. For
the past eighteen hundred years interest
in him has been steadily wing.-Rcv.
S. ]. Blum, MoraviaD, York, Pa.
THE CROSS.
The cross of Jesus alone has been able
| 10 attract and develop the thought, the
| feeling and the will of mankind and men.
Let us stand before it until our manhood
is complete.-Rev. F. w. Gunsaulus, Con
gregationalist, Chicago, Ill.
GODS LOVE.
God loves us personally and not simply
| in the aggregate. He loves us with n
personal affection; we are not lost in the
crowd Let us grasp the truth that God
first loved US, not that we loved him.
Rev. DR.. Scott, Presbyterian, Galveston,
| Tex.
| UNITARIAN SIN.
The great sin of the Unitarian Church
is that she seeks only TO develop intel
|
poor and the suffering in the church. She
despises the ignorant in the congregation.
Rev. James Small, Christian, Oakland
Cal.
DIsCoNTENT.
Ours is 4 time of mental rernent. This
age with all its wealth, its knowledge,
its spleDdor, has been justly termed The
age of discomfort. A sense of impending
crisis is strong in the minds of leading
thinkers.-Rev. n. Luccock, Methodist,
Pittsburg, Pa.
| RELIGION.
Religion is a certainty, fact. 1t has
transformed Europe and has given 10 Us oul
own proud civilization And as ii Las teen
transforming civilization it las hcen trans
forming the lives of individual men.-Rev
w 4. Phillips, Methodist. Chicago.
ACTIVITY.
/
divine. 1t uplifts nations and produces all
things. 1t keeps men moral. Never did q
revolution take place when men W ere active
| 1t was idle men which caused the reign ol
terror in France.-Rev. j. Z. Williams
Methodist, Pittsburg, Pa.
THE AGE OF SHAM
THIS is an age, pre-eminenuy SO. of sham
Sham stands out in every line of life il has
been one of the greatest curses of our III
stitutions of learning. Until tie last ten oil
fifteen years the education of our WON en- ha:
been a perfect farce.-Rev. G. W. Wray
Methodist, Newport, Va.
PREACHING TO SINNERS.
The trouble with the pulpit today is, how
| ever that it is chary of touching ON the sins
and the sinners of today. They prefer t.
preach of sinners of 2 eco yearsago because
they are dead and have fewer friends in The
congreg3tiOn.-Rcy. r. 3 MacArthur, Bap
tist, New York city.
ARMENIA.
!. If the powers of Europe were Christian
they would have combined long ago for th'
protection of poor. broken-hearted Ar
mcnians the blood of tens of thousands o
whose murdered children cries out frof
the very earth to the God of Heaven 70
venceance-Rev. Horace Porter, COngrega
} tionalist, Brooklyn, n. Y.
HUMAN NEEDS.
Human needs are boundless; every reform
payes the way for another. Utopia retreat
before us, for our ideals grow faster thai
| our achievements. Character, too, consist
IN endless progress. Perfection can neve
} be attained in q moment, or even in time.
Rev Z. 7. Root, Congregationalist, Provi
dence, X. L.
TEMPTATION.
1t is the common lot to be tempted. N
man escapes. be he beggar or prince. VI
Z ! must all pass through the fiery ordeal AM
especially are those tempted who are try
ing to follow in the footsteps of the Lord
| 1t is impossible to tell how temptation
3 coming or to avoid it, Before the diaden
we must wear the crown of thorns. Rev
!, Tracy Walsh. Episcopalian, Sumter, s.
COMBINATION.
The ture interests of civilization are bes
/ conserved by combinations and not by com
petition The competition that downs oppo
silion and laughs at the downfall of coin
petitors is born in the devil. 1t is througl
combinations of interests that the wheels o
industry are best kept going aud civilizatio
preserved b. L. Whitman, Baptis'
} Washington. D. G.
POLITICS.
: The Christian ought to keep out. of col
rupt schemes in politics, but he ought to b
in politics with his noble manhood, hi
7 sensitive conscience. his high appreciatio
OF right and honor with a full and mani
determination that the ten commandment
| have a place in politics. A man has u
right to be any the less a Christian in n
: lalion to public affairs than when he is |
the church. Rev. ]. B. Markware, Luther
/ an. Allegheny, Pa.
FOOD FOR THE SOUL.