The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-07-10

it the right one. Rev. G. K. Binder,
Lutheran, Camden, N. J.
Boys.
We like and love the boy who is every
inch Of him boy. God never meant
boys to be mandy PANTY and girlish,
| but he did mean boys to be men, and
whether we become the right kind of
men depends upon the ideals that we
have as boys. Rev. J. G. Mitchell,
Episcopalian, Philadelphia.
Theology.
The religions of different peoples re-
feet their racial characteristics or the
stages of their culture What men really
think and feel concerning God is deter
mined more by their associates ard en-
vironments than by theologians or any
system of theology. Rev. j. w. Chad
wick, Unitarian, Brooklyn.
Mastery of Self.
Self conquest, what is it? The sub
ordination of selfshness to generosity;
of inclination to duty; of pleasure to
sacrifice; of feeling to principles; of
fancy and imagination to sober judg-
ment; of will to reason; of body to
spirit; of self to God.-Rev. ]. F. Pow
ers, Episcopalian, Reading, Pa.
Ignorance.
Ignorance is sin, and it is time to
have that understood. Whatever your
work, not to know how to do it is
wicked. And if welcome the realist
of the new literature, it is because his
works are some recognition of the laws
of nature and their results. Rev G.
J. Little, Presbyterian, Evanston, Ills.
City Life.
The city is the battlefield of the clos
ing days of this century. 1t will be more
and more so in the next century. Some Of
us deplore this massing into the cities.
What is the need of the hour? 1t is that
moral fiber and manhood shall be
equaled to the emergency. Rev. DIR.
Hickman, Evangelist, Terre Haute, Ind.
-~ The Human kind,
Man is midway from nothing to
Deity. He is rooted in nature. He is 80
much an animal as to be close akin to
them. All forces, kingdoms and powers
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their impress on him. This qualities
him for dominion of earth and animal.
Rev. G. S. Lucas, Christian, Allie
ghany, Pa.
! The Saloon.
The saloon is at the bottom OF about
all that is bad on this continent. Alco-
hol is the devil in solution. II we would
destroy the works of the devil, we must
be uncompromising foes of the grog-
shop. The welfare of this country is
bound up with the moral condition of
it's people, Rev. G. L. White, Baptist,
Pittsfeld, Me.
Poverty In the Church.
think there is no one in more need
of the gospel than the rich man. 1t is
true that the gospel is not preached to
the poor as much as it ought to be.
Nevertheless the church is made up for
the most part of poor men, and the poor
men furnish the larger support of the
church. Rev. Wallace Nutting, Con-
gregationalist, Providence
The Art of Life.
Science has already done a vast
amount of detached work for the inn
movement of life. But she is now be-
ginning to go to work constructively on
the life Of man as whole. She is be-
ginning to recognize that all the sciences
exist for the supreme science, the sci
ence of life. Out Of this supreme science
is to come some day the supreme arr,
the art of life.-Rev. W. R. Taylor
Presbyterian, Rochester
Sin is always expensive, Il never
pays what it promises, The flowers in
the distance in. the pathway of sin al
@ayp Wither before yo0 reach them, and
the way becomes a way Of thorns. The
Sabbath breaker. pleasure seeker and
drunkards all pay their. fare, but never
reach the isrended destination. Blasted
prospects, shattered constitutions, ruin
ed families are the price of sin.-Rev.
p, "A. Baker, Methodist, Columbus, ..
Evolution.
The time must come when all sclen-
J tific men will admit that there must be
something beyond this present life OF
ours. The theory of evolution is now
being accepted by all leaders of science,
and the only Interpretation of life as
we see it is that there must be another
life beyond for which we are being pre-
pared. The doctrine of Immortality is
now popularity accepted. Rev. Henry
Blanchard, Universalist, Portland, Me.
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