The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-08-06

the political candidate responsibility of
carefulness which he is in duty bound to
regard. Men put forth as standard bear
ers by all political parties recognize this
obligation and with studied care guarding
word and act that their cause may not
suffer. What on the part OF other men
would be ipconsequential, from him would
be startling and disastrous. Rev. E. P.
Edmunds, Methodist, Canton, 0.
CHILDREN. Do you know the most
startling, satanic revelation in all the his
tory of our churches? Not diminishing
role of members, for that is growing larger
and larger, but the horrible and terrible
fact that as our churches grow larger the
Sunday schools in all our large cities are
year by year proportionately becoming
less, because, as every reputable physi
clan will tell you, the children who ought
to have been born of Christian parents
are not allowed to be born. Rev. F. D.
Talmage, Presbyterian, Pittsburg.
SECTARIANIsM AND SECULARIsM. Sec
tarianism is bad enough, but secuarsm
is worse. If l were compelled to make
choice, | should prefer the ungodliness of
sectarianism to the godlessness of secular
ism. We reject both isms and ask for the
Book of Life. We want no creeds or cate
chlsms or confessions, but the Bible. The
least we shall be contented with is to have
the Book of Books occupying an equal
place in our schools with the rest of the
literature Of the world. We want it as a
marvellous record of God in history. REV.
Dr.. Magruder, Methodist, Cincinnati.
SUCCESS. What is success? 1t is not
| to be determined by any commercial stand
ard. Success is not to be measured in
terms of wealth or fame, or of social posi-
ton, even. What, then, is success? The
realization of "a divinely appointed destiny.
Full orbed manhood, which is obtainable
by striving lawfully and which receives its
ultimate coronation, is held before us as
an ideal to which we are to attain. Rev.
A. L. Conrad, Congregationalist, Worces-
ter Mass.
CASTE. Christian duty receives inter
ferences through pride and ambition, es-
pecially because these evils grow rapidly
and swallow humanity so deep that it re-
quires all the strength of friends and
church to draw the victims back to true
| life. Caste, fortunately, is not 50 preva-
lent in Methodism as in some other
ing one OF the most important of common
religious ethics and is defying the very
personitication and embodiment of Chrst's
teachings. Rev. F. c. Iglehart, Metho-
dist, Brooklyn.
SECTARIAN SCHOOLS. Our country
glories in its religious liberation All
sects, all creeds and beliefs may repose
safely under its spreading banners. But
when the tenets of any sect are in direct
conflict to the fundamental principles of
our Constitution then it is no longer ibe1-
ty, but unbridled license. Our Govern
ment demands that taxable citizens shall
pay for the support of our schools. They
are free, open to all, Pagan. Jew. Catho-
lie or Mohammedan, and every loyal citi
zen should recognize this demand as con
sistent with justice, but when the Romish.
I'M American alien, under the influence
of foreign policy, attempts to build
system of sectarian schools with the pub
lie fund now used in the maintenance of
our free schools, then | say this spirit is
hostile to the nation,and is in the interests
of the temporal power of the Church of
Rome. Rev. Claude Raboteau. Jersey
City.