The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-05-07

RELIGION AND BUSINESS. great
many people don't believe in mixing re-
ligion and business, but such people have
no religion to mix. A religion which is
only for Sunday, which can permit six
days of business to be run on the devils
principles, and which gives reluctantly as
a favor to God a part of the Sabbath is
atheism. 1t is not Christianity Rev.
B. Fay Mills, Evangelist, Lafayette, Iud
CULTURE. Refinement and culture
should not be merely physical. They
should be moral and spiritual. Polish
that does not include the moral and spirit
ual nature is only veneer. There is a
false culture which resembles the cut
flowers of the florist, which have short
stems, are abbreviated and soon wither
away The Church is the center and
source of all true culture. Rev. D. r.
Breed, Presbyterian, Pittsburg, Pa.
FAITH. All human knowledge, all hui
man affection, is built on faith. Faith is
the eye and ear of the soul. All history
| is with us matter of faith. The farmer
sows his seed by faith, and largely by
/ faith man prospers in business. Bust
ness is based on faith. Faith makes ma
tional business intercourse possible; faith
binds together the church, the nation and
the family. Bishop Arnett, African Meth
odist, Meadville. Pa.
JUDGMENT. We are all standing before
| the judgment seat of Christ now, and be-
ing tested every day, not to find what kind
of an angel or devil we are going to make
at some far away time; but what kind of
a man or woman we are going to be to-
morrow Each days life is the outcome
of our former mode of living, and We
have heaven or hell continuously, accord
ing to our capacity and merit. Rev. l..
H. Squires, Universalist, Rochester, MY.
SIN AND ITS PUNISHMENT. When we
sin, We rob God OF something, and we
ought to be willing to repay him in some
manner, while we have health and strength,
instead of waiting to feel remorse for an
I unfruitful life when we near its end. We
may be told to take life with its pleasures
and its sins moderately, but the Scriptures
tell us plainly that the joys and the tor
ments of heaven and hell are not moder-
ate, but acute. Rev. F. J. Herman,
Catholic, Philadelphia.
| EDUCATION AND MORALITY. Thou
sands of the most intelligent and learned
men of the past We're as much distinguish
ed for their wiclzedness as for their wis
dom. knowledge alone can not make us
better men. for knowledge is oftener an
| instrument OF evil than an instrument of
good. The blacklist villainies in the
world 5 history were planned by men who
had received diplomas from colleges and
universities. 1t is not true, then, that
education is the panacea for all the moral
ills Of the world Rev j. b. Hawthorne
| Baptist Atlanta, Ga.
MORALITY AND JUSTICE. In the white
light of heaven throne mans sins ap-
pears precisely the same as woman S,
and impurity is as black on Fifth avenue
as on the Bowery. The world has two
codes Of morals, masculine and feminine
but that distinction is not recognized in
the other world. Gender has no right to
destroy justice. The Walls of wrath are
poured upon the heads of unfortunate
women. while the most royal welcome
is given to the man who is VIGOROUSLY
unclean. That is the accused creed of
this hour. Injustice, justice-basest in
justice, misses at the woman, but kisses for
the man. Rev. Cortland Myers, Baptist,
Brooklyn, n. Y.