The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-26

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
chief end of the existence of city cor
nora ton is to afford protection to per-
son and 10 property. In other words the
chief end of city is to maintain right
eousness and TO put down wickedness.
Some people think the city belongs TO
councils and the countryman thinks il
belongs to sthe policeman with his brass
buttons. Rev. =. II. Mowry, Presby-
terrain, Chester, Ia.
GROVER CLEVELAND--He has
been dragged from his place as a states
man down TO the level of the political
leeches that surround him. Fly one
breath Of his mouth be threw millions of
the peoples money in the maelstrom of
financial ruin: in another breath he pit
eousy invokes his congress TO avert the
crash he has called down upon our heads
Rev. II. E. Cotton, Hagerstown, Nd.
THE PRESS-The press of today is
exercising n tremendous power. 1t ar
raigns political parties, straightens out
corporations, unearths crime and dis
cusses strategic points in craftsmanship.
II even collars irate theological dispu
tants II opens q larger nilsson for the
church by disseminating Sunday thoughts
through the week. 1t Is lifting up the
whole Nation. 1t is itself liberal edu-
cregationalist, Seattle, Wash.
CANT-The talk that comes from
mouths of people who look wise but are
not is nothing. A man may be com
municant, may be regular IN prayer. and
be very bad man. | hate this cant that
passes itself in the name of piety; the
disposition 10 do things on Sunday and
never think Of them again until the next
Sunday.-Rey. John Ieal, Episcopalian
Rochester, y. Y.
LUCK AND PLUCK-There is no
such thing as luck. Luck is pluck. Luck
S a foolish doctrine of fate; il is the Sill
ness of superstition; il is the cyncism of
fools, incompetents and failures. You
never hear a real sensible man talking
about luck; he knows the philosophy Of
success too WELL he knows the meaning
of patience and painstaking care, Of
energy and economy.-Rev. j. q. Rust,
Baptist, Nashville, Conn.
CLARA BARTON-In dozen dis
nsters Clara Barton has rendered aid
Now at the time of life when most peo-
pie are seeking rest and ease, she is 10
cross the ocean on the most periiOus mis-
sion of her life. A soul like Clara Bar
toms belongs TO no nation. no sect, no re-
ligion. She is greater than any nationality
or human institution. Her heart Id as
large as the world, her spirit as broad as
the univcSe.-Rev. 3. L, Eaton, Wor-
cester, Mass.
EDUCATION-No country Is saved
by multitude OF books or school houses
A man q in danger Of being roasted alive
who at Tins time of day will dare to utter
such hrrcsy, but it needs TO be uttered.
knowledge Is power indeed; and so is
a. l,fst no .fl
90 the hands To which you intrust it.
And education needs 20 he sanctified by
rel glon to make it safe.--Rev. L. :.
Henson, Baptist, Chicago, Ill.
TURKEY-If ever there was putre-
tying carcaeS in the shape of n nation. it
IS the so-calied Turkish governments over
which ! hope. at this moment, hover the
cnsles OF Gods avenging judgments; not
that | mean to he merciless to the indi-
y:!ual man. blackhearted and brutal as
he may be, but the instinc, OF humanity
does eecm to call for the wipiug out of
the very name of Turkey from the reg
ster of nations Rev, n. @. Fettcr, Bap-
t.st' Doylestown, Pa.
SOCIAL PURTTS-In all the past So
ciety has demanded purity on the part
OF woman. \ woman's crown is her pur
ity. II she loses this crown it 8 almost
an impos sibilIty 70 reinstate her in so
ciety. But society has been so consti-
tutcd that man could be vicious IA con
duct and depraved in life, and yet find
an entrance TO good society. 1t is high
time that society should demand the same
purity OF man as is demanded of n
woman.-Rey. +. A. Scofe4d, Methodist
New Haven, Conn.
IMPERFECTIoN-No persons faith
or love or reverence Is perfect. The
trembling fears and hopes and anxieties
Of life have not trcmbled 10 their fina
/ poise aud rest. No mans work ia done
\ sense of imperfection still fingers in
all noble, earnest souls. There is impcr
fiction in our judgments, want OF
charity; there ID a lack of self control, 4
want of patience. n lack of steadiness OF
purpose, which destroys our identity; Il
want of deliberation. We net first and
then think. We do things too rapidly
Rex. T.. l.. Rexford, universalist, Co
/ lumhus, Ohio.
BUDDHISM-Bu had no per
sonal God. Buddha himself, ms the rep
rosontation of perfect intelligence, came
30 be worshipped by Ruddhists If Budd
] hism recognized God MT all it was al
impcrsonal God. No religion can contnu,
for very long without personal God
buddhism has almost entirely disap
peared, being swallowed up by the oIdc
Brahminism and other forms of Hindu
ism. Buddhism recognized human misery
but not human sin. buddhism made n,
attempt at the redemption of society. II
all these respects Christianity supplies
what Buddhism lacked. No system o
morality even can bo greatly cftectiv,
which does not rest upon divine sane
tion.--Re $. =. Sprecher, Presbyterian
Cleveland, Ohio.
FAITH AND DOUBT-Faith is tn
natural attitude toward truth and on
fclowmen. Doubt in bcsottcn of eX
pcrience. Trusting God is not strange
than trusting our dearest friend, Faith /
the root. II Is not believing q set of prop
ositions about God that makes the Christ
ian. but it ia believing in, God himself
Faith in God is trusting him, just MS yo
would trust II surgeon with your life
only in higher degree. When one b,
leves in the things in the Bible, who
one trusts his life and eternity in God
hands. then il faith true. The object q
faith is not a doctrine or creed, but BE-
heying. Rev. DIR. McClintock, PNsby