The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-07-23

SCIENCE. Science is simply inquisitive-
ness-the thinker seeking some reason for
unanswered enigmas. The astronomer in
his Investigations is trying simply to think
Gods thoughts. Rev. Howard Duffield,
Presbyterian, New York.
SUCCESS. 1t is not luck that enables
men to climb to positions Of merit and at
tainments; it is the natural consequence
of high and noble purpose, coupled with
industry. Rev. NJ. G. Coleman, Metho-
dist, Beardstown, Ill.
EDUCATION. There is moralizing in
tluence in learning. The educated man
is, by virtue OF his education, more likely
to be pure and true and good than the
illiterate. Rev. L. F. Marten, Baptist,
Asbury Park, New Jersey.
The MINISTRY. The Christian minister
should be the most manly of men. He
should be respected for his manhood. and
not feared for his priesthood, or laughed
at for his ghosthood. Rev. Cortland
Myers, Baptist, Brooklyn.
PARENTAL AUTHORITY. We want lib
erty for man, woman and child, but we
want the child under subsection while I'M
der parental authority, so that they may
be under control as a citizen Rev. j. F.
P. Bradley, African Methodist Church,
Dallas
TIE LAW. The discovery of law as
operative in the natural world has made
possible true science. Lawfulness is sy-
nonymous with progress. Sequence and
order are the fundamental features Of
law. Rev. A. Z. Conrad, Congregations
alist, Boston.
Nc CREEDs. Love of God and love of
man are the only requisites of religious
faith to-day. The only test of the religion
the world cares for to-day is the word
character. Cecilia ?. Wooley, Independ-
ent, Chicago.
Use OF WEALTH. A man with honestly
acquired wealth, using it for the benefit
of his race, is one of the grandest sights
of all ages. Gold is only current to the
grave. Rev. George L. Wallace, Con
gregationalist, Chicago.
GOD WORLD. This is not our world.
We did not make it; we bring nothing into
1t; we take nothing away with us; it was
all here before we came and will remain
after we leave. Rev. DR.. Weld, indie
pendent Baltimore.
RELIGIOUS LIFE. Never was the re-
Eglous life of a people more intense and
throbbing with energy than it is at this
moment among the Americans, and they
are the most intelligent and progressive
people in the world. Rev H. B. Steel
man, Baptist, Salt Lake City
The FLAG. A flags responsibility de-
ponds upon what it stands for. The stars
and stripes stand for government of the
people, the liberty of the people. The flag
stands for freedom and for honor and
terrain, New York
SOCIETY AND THE CHURCH. The Chris
tian Church is not religious club, which
meets weekly for purposes of mutual ac-
quaintance and improvement Sociabilty
is good and needed thing, butthe Church
is not mutual admiration society. Rev
W. T. McElyeen, Congregatonalist,
Brooklyn
CHURCH GROWTH. The Church is nu-
merica]ly stronger than ever before; the
influence of the Church and pulpit is
stronger than ever before; Christian prin-
ciples are influencing the minds of men
more deeply and in more ways than ever
before. Rev. F. W. Hamilton, Universal
list, Roxbury, Mass.
THEOLOGY. The religions of different
peoples reflect their racial characteristics
or the stages of their culture. What men
really think and feel concerning God is de-
termined more by their associates and en-
vironments than by theologians or any
system of theology. Rev. j. w. Chad
wick, Unitarian, Brooklyn.
MASTERY OF SELF. Self conquest pm
what is it? The subordnation of selfish
ness to generosity; of inclination to duty;
of pleasure to sacrifice; of feeling to prin-
ciples; of fancy and Imagination to sober
judgment; of will to reason; of body to
spirit; of self to God. Rev. j. F. Pow
ers, Episcopalian, Reading, Pa.
MATERIAIISM. The materialistic phi
losophy of the times is not the cause of
materialsm, but materialism is the cause
of its own philosophy. When men are
determined to go in wrong path, they
wish to be furnished with reasons for
CONSTRUCTING IL lllC ouC. llCS. y. ~
Binder, Lutheran, Camden, n. J.
BOYS. We like and love the boy who is
every inch of him a boy. God never meant
boys to be namby pamby and girlsh, 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. c. Mitchell, Episcopaian, Phila
delphia.
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 l welcome the realist Of
the new literature, it is because his works
are some recognition of the laws of nature
and their results. Rev. c. J. Little,
Presbyterian, Evanston, Ill.
The HUMAN KIND. Man is midway
from nothing to Deity. He is rooted in
nature. He is so much an animal as to
be close akin to them. All forces, king
doms and powers beneath him ascend into
him and stamp their impress on him.
This qualities him for dominion of earth
and animal. Rev. G. S. Lucas, Christian,
Allegheny, Pennsylvania.