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Providence and divine interferenca ell
belong 20 the supernatural and form no
part ~ real rellgion.-Robert g. Inger-I
soil, .Agnostlc, New York.
Gods work.-The ministry should
choose the minister One should not
enterithe ministry unless, before God,
he feels' that he can do nothing else.-
Rev. w. II. Geistweit, Baptist, Gales
burg, I'll.
N Patriotism.--There Is need of patriot
ismin America to-day. 1t would coun-
teract natural selfshness and give
greater responsibility to the CITIZEN
Rev. Henry Anstice, Episcopalian,
Rochester. N. Y. t,saslf .---.,
Religious Example. Nine people In
ten read religion from the lives Of Chris
tians and not from the Scriptures. This
Is what the great apostle meant when
he wrote, .'Ye are my epistles. Rev.
George p. Mains. Methodist, Mount Yer
non, =. Y.rsiT ips4
Politics.-IIistorians know that In all
persecution religion has been a pre-
tense. but in truth 1t has been politics.
The atrocities Of Armenia are ascribed
to religious difficulties, but the truth
lies in political ambitions, political as
pirations and machlnations.-Rabbi
Hirsch. Hebrew, Chicago, Ill. hersc
Christianity. Christianity is not
merely to make us happy hereafter, but
to make us live dlvinely here and now,
lifting up our bodies and our divine
souls out of their degradation and sin
and sorrow, yesterday, to-day and to-
morrow.--Bishop Davis Sessums, Epis-
copalian, New Orleans, La.
Agnostics.rrIt is when agnosticlsm
becomes irreverent that it is an abom-
ination.-Rev. N. I. .iRubinkam, Congre-
gationalist, Chicago, Ill. 91; +
Home Infuence.-!The home is the
real training school for citizenship.
Here, Ss nowhere else, are all the essen
tial germs of citizenship of the best type
inculcated. Clean, sane and trust
worthy students OF human history
speak with one voice of the home as q
civil ihstitution.-Rev +. b. Cheering.
ton, Corgregationalist, Spokane, Wash.
AssoCiatiOn.-Ass associations and assO-
ciates are character formative. Natives
of mountainous regions are Of bold
and rugged character. The longtime
inhabitants of the sunny southland be-
come warm of blood, passionate, genial
social and hospitable. Children Of God
less parents generally grow into Christ
less manhood.-Re G. B. Allen, Bap-
tist, Helena, Mont.
Unity.-Christian unity can only come
on some plain Of federation with Christ
| as the center and soul of all. Union Is
greatly to be desired, but 1t must be q
union in diversity, not mere uniform
ity. The safeguard of our churches is
not the letter of the creed but the spirit
that giveth life.-Rev. A. Hadden, Con-
regationalist, Muskegon, Mich.
| Sensationalism.-To be sensational a
thing must be out of the ordinary. The
only sensational thing in the world is
the Bible, and that Is extraordinary.
Every truth in the Bible is sensation.
Jesus Christ was a sensationalist. He
came into the world and preached the
truth, Ind never deviated from his path.
Rev. P. S. Hurlburt, Congregational
ist, Oak Park, Ill.
| Sunday Rest.-To give a man no Sab
bath rest Is an attempt to reduce him
to all fours. A man Is a man, and does
not like to be worked like a machine or
a mule, and being man, it Is his God
given privilege to stand upright. The
secularization OF the Sabbath Is one of
the greatest enemies of better living
Rev. g. G. Reynolds, Presbyterian, Jol-
let, Ill.
| Armcnia.-The Armenians are being
cruelty slaughtered, and all the great
powers of Europe are simply looking
on. No tongue or pen can portray the
appalling tortures upon those put to
death and the sufferings of those who
are permitted to live. They have been
made to suffer for their faith in Christ.
This is the crime the cruel Turk charges
| against them.-Rev. j. e. Goetman,
Lutheran, Allegheny, Pa.
Marriage.-God intends marriage to
be sacred, and flial affection must give
way to marriage and the care Of the
family to come. The love of man for
woman is so great, and Of such divine
importance, that 1t has arrogated to It.
self the. title Of love, as though no other
love exists. Upon the family rest church
and state, and the marriage condition ID
so sacred that God forbids its violation,
even In thought.-Rev. William r. Tay-
lor, Presbyterian, Rochester, N. Y.
Presidential Candidates.-Every four
years we go out in search of an able
man one able in the highest and truest
sense land twice or thrice since the ma
tion began we have found such a man.
Able men do not proclaim themselves.
Great men never seek the presidency.
Able men do not wear collars nor hang
tags about their necks. 1t Is your con-
sciously small men that must have toy
swords and badges and feathers In their
hats.-Rev. s. G. Nelson, Baptist, Brook
lyn, ". Y.
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