The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-04-09
Religious Thought.

Religious Thought.
AN EPITOME OF SERMONS BY EMINENT
CLERGYMEN OF VARIOUS DENOMINA-
TIoNs.
HADEs. Hades is not hell. 1t means
the unseen, the spirit world, where we all
must go. Rev. James K. Vernon, Chris
tian Church, Augusta, Ga.
MEN AND FATE. Men are made by
what they inherit and by what finds them.
Heredity and circumstances added to-
gether make fate. Rev. Myron W. Reed,
Independent, Dover, Colo.
THE NEGRO QUESTION. The negro
problem will never be solved until the
coored race is placed in condition that
will enable every colored man to earn his
own living. Rev. P. A. Hubert, Sails
bury, n. {.
WOMEN. Women are not angels We
may think SO at one period OF our lives,
but we lose the delusion as we grow older
Rev. Clark Raboteau, Baptist, Jersey
City, N. j.
A SUPREME BEING. False gods, idols,
the sun, and other objects were worship
ped by the ancient pagans, but this spirit
showed that they believed in being
higher than mortal man. Rev. Father
Malone, Catholic, Scranton, Pa.
HUMAN PROGRESS. Manis ever climb
ing higher and higher. He is developing
new powers, opening new avenues of
growth and is expanding intellectually,
morally and spiritually. Man is becoming
divine as the ages roll away. Rev. U. S.
Milburn, Universalist, Cincinnati, O.
EVERYDAY HEROES. Out from the
tenements and factories and shops come
as noble examples of heroic self-sacrlice
and service as ever came from palace or
mansion. All human inequalities must
give way under the test of God S righteous
measurements. Rev. P A. Baker, Meth
odist, Columbus, o.
CHANCE. Chance is uncertainty, and
anyone who undertakes any work, any
transaction or any performance without
seeing his way clear, trusting to chance,
must not be surprised if he meets with
failure and disappointment, especially
when the chance is based upon mere sus-
picion. Rabbi L. Weiss, Hebrew, Co.
lumbus, O.
PATRIOTISM. Patriotism is a holy emo
ton and it has the Bible for its sanction
The great master and teacher Of us all,
Jesus Christ, was patriot. He believed
in the State and taught us to respect and
honor the law of the land. Rev. A.
Fuller, Baptist, Newburg, n. Y.
RICH AND Pooh. None but the disso-
lutte among the poor look upon the rich as
their natural enemies, and desire to pill
lage their houses and divide their proper
ty. None but the dissolute among the
rich speak in opprobrious terms of the
vices and failings of the poor. Rev. w.
L. Neale, Presbyterian, Jacksonville, Fla.
SUICIDE Suicide is not known among
the savages; it is a sin and a blot upon
civilization. In Ireland it is almost I'M
heard of, because it is Catholic country:
because there the suicide is not taken to
church with brass bands, flowers, banners
and a big procession. Bishop McGovern,
Catholic, Harrisburg, Pa.
LABOR TROUBLES. 1t was the divine
will that the relations between employer
and employed should be softened and
ameliorated by mutual kindness between
the parties. The trade and labor troubles
of the present age are entirely the result
of the lack of love on one side for the
other-usually on both. Bishop Whita
ker, Episcopalian, Philadelphia, Pa.
The END OF THE WORLD. The earth
and the heavens are to be burned up.
Tl,,4 ~. l.
gradually coming around to believe with
the Bible. Scientists agree now that the
old earth must be burned up. Unless it
is recuperated somehow this old world
must go to smash. Rev. c. NJ. Hall,
Methodist, Lowell, Mass.
SPIRITUAIIsM. The sooner the church
recognizes the fact that if spiritualsm is
false its Bible is false, the better it will
he for all concerned. The attitude of the
evangelical churches toward spiritualsm
is due to the fact that they recognizein the
outcome from the spiritualstic hypothe-
sis the impacable enemy of their creeds
II. V. Sweringen, Spilitualist, Fort
Wayne, Ind.
DIVORCE. If the relations of man and
wife are such as they ought to be, divorce
would be unknown. To prevent separa-
ton and divorce true love must be given
new and practical formula when the
novelty subsidies. Instead of ice cream
and caramels, let it take the form of bread
and butter and meat Rev. W. W. Nor
ton, Presbyterian, Allegheny, Pa.
LABOR AND RELIGION. The labor
question is a religious one. The only
''workingman's friend'' is the man who
is just and kind Laborers do not want
aims, but justice. The church lays its
claim upon the workingman because it is
an institution whose whole business is to
strengthen and develop those sentiments
that are his truest helpers. Rev. Frank
Crane, Methodist, Chicago, III.
MORAL GENIUS. The most invincible
thing in the world is moral genius The
timid lose their faith on the slightest
provocation. To feel and see all the
worlds evils and to hold on to ones faith
in goodness and justice is moral genius
This is the faith against which the gates