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The Grace Of God Every man needs
the grace Of God, and therefore every
man ought to pray, and ought to 60 70
church to do so.-Rev. II. ]. Watersteck.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Inheritance.-The memory of q faith
er's character, the remembrance Of Z
mothers Christlike life are the sweet
est, strongest, surest inheritances that
we can leave to our children.-Rev.
DR.. Williamson, Christian Church, At
lanta, Ga.
True to Self.-You can never be true
to truth, you can never be true to an
other till you are true to yourself
Anna Shaw, at San Francisco, Cal.
Liberty.-No one has a right to de-
mean or denounce any mans religion
or their Bible, or throw away the Bibles
of the world because they don't know
their meaning-maybe because they
never read them.-Rev. DR.. Astor, Spir-
itualist, San Antonio, Texas.
Love.-Nothing was ever settled by
violence, and nothing ever will be- We
must become great enough to love, and
then will come the universal reign Of
peace. Love is hope to the hopeless
and help to the helpless.-Rev. @. L.
Hyde, Congregationalist, Toledo, Ohio.
Peace.-The forces that keep England
and America from crossing swords are
not commercial, but moral. The moral
sense has grown so strong under the
Of the English and Amer
lean Constitutions as forever to pre-
clude war between the two nations
Rev DR.. Hartman, Baptist, Cleveland,
Ohio.
Heather decentralization only
recognizes salvation that any man
can gain for himself in this world. Mo-
hammedanism has no atonement
Heather religions have no high mo-
tives and lofty ideas. There is nothing
to exalt hope when a personal God Is
denied.-Rev. @. B. Galloway, Presbyte-
rlan, Nashville, Tenn.
Real Religion.-All forms may be
stripped from religion and Christianity
remain intact, for 1t dwells In the heart.
1t Is moral and spiritual truth and not
churches, altar and music. 1t Is the
acceptance Of truth and making II the
rule Of life.-Rev. DR.. Marlatt, Metho-
dist, Tacoma, Wash,
Preaching.-A good preacher can do
much to add to the pleasure and salts
faction Of our lives by discussing In an
intelligent, graceful way. There Is an
art in preaching which all of us have
seen at times, and the right. kind Of
preaching does much to make the world
brighter, happier and better, and makes
us all better satisfied with ourselves,
but preaching Is vain and futile thing
unless 1t can succeed in establishing
belief in the resurrection Of the Christ.
Rev. NJ. B. Wharton, Baptist, Nor
folk, Va.
Wild Oats.-It is a matter of common
observation that people of ordinary
intellect in other matters will have q
mouthful of apologies for the vices and
excuses of youth. Fathers sleep peace
fully while their sons go to the devil,
all under the spell that present nasti-
ness is fit preparation for future puri-
ty Of manhood.-Rev. George Clark
Peck, Methodist, Brooklyn, N. Y. a:Ss
The Ideal Mantle IDEAL man is on
the way, but pot yet arrived. Nature
. hSs not been tollihg 1000, 900 years or
so to nroduce a Vanderbilt. 4 GnnII
a Rockefeller. Pushes " ~ unseen sen 1tsfc 5
man has reached the height called ma
terial power and enterprise, and before
his opening vision rises the height still
more sublime spiritual culture.-Rev.
G.. A. White, Universalist, Chicago, Ill.
Obedience.-A child that grows ND to
manhood or womanhood without hay
ing learned the duty of obedience, and
without having acquired keen sense
Of personal responsibility for its con-
duct and accountability for 1t, Is fertile
soil In which the devil may sow his
seeds Of anarchy and lawlessness, with
every reason to expect a rich harvest
Rev. L. A. Banks, Methodist, Brook
Ign, N. Y.
LIES SchooL-Wherever we 90 we
have much to learn, and thus all time
and eternity are but the various schools.
primary, secondary and college, In
which mankind are being unfolded into
larger thought and deeper faith. No
church has reached the final truth; no
creed is surely the closing up of the
case between man and God, but there
is always new revelations awaiting the
honest, inquiring soul.-Rev. George A.
Thayer, Unitarian, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sunday Bicycling.-Do not think that
l discountenance wholly the use of the
wheel on Sunday. II spin In the early
morning will bring the color to your
cheeks and will stimulate your brain,
then it is not only your right, but your
duty to take 1t, for the body is the tenn
pie of the soul and it is your duty to
preserve 1t. Don't confound license
with liberty. Let the bicycle be your
servant, not your master.-Rev. @. ].
Greenwood, Baptist, New York.
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