The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-02-02
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| is the disease of division. This disease
| makes the church weak, while just now
| there is special need that the church
should be strong.-Rcv. Dean Hodges,
EIiscopalian, Augusta, Me.
DlVORCE-1f all who seek divorce
were forbidden under penalty to marry
| again, unless the decree was obtained
upon the charge of faithlessness to the
marriage vow, as defined by the Saviour,
nine-tenths of our domestic troubles
wonld never see the light.-Rev. J. ii. o.
Smith, Chicago, H.
SOC1ALISM-Chrs has bred
,, socialism alone. 1t does not exist in
Turkey. Persia or China. 1t is a mark
OF grand elements in the Christianity of
Russia that it has fostered Nihlsm.
Chrstendom brings up good weeds be-
cause 1t has rank soil.-Rev. Nelson Mil
lard, Presbyterian, Rochester, \. Y.
ENVIRONMENT Of envi-
ronment will not save man. As with
| the man who wanted to raise animals on
the red rose bush, it can not be done
Tho mans heart must be changed, not
the environment in order to secure an
entrance to Gods kingdom. -Rev. John
Nj. Dick, Evangelist, Boston, Mass
| SICKNESS AND SIN-There is no
sickness of the body that has not it's cor
responding sickness of the soul I.eprosy
OF the body compares to sluggishness OF
the soul, consumption to trepidity of the
soul fever to avarice, dropsy to pride.
epilepsy, the falling sickness, to tckleness
and inconsistency in the service of Cod
Rev. Father Power, Jesuit, New Or
! leans La.
| GENTLENESS-G is the
only power that can save men; the law
never did. and can not, save. Prisons
and houses of correction do not save
but 1t is the hand extended through the
bars. the kindness and compassion shown.
Persistent Kindness, love and gentleness
and sympathy are what claim and lead
10 n better life in the cnd.-Rcv. George
p. Reed, Methodist, York, Pa.
THE WAR SCARE-The long. black
shadow of war is casting its spell over
Europe, and to a casual glance it would
appear that it needs only one touch of
the torch TO ignite n powder magazine
that will shake the civilized world. The
two great factors in the movement of
the day are the spirit of unrest and the
spirit of greed.-Rev. William Il. Dan
forth, Preshy terian, Chicago, Ill.
NATIONAL CHARACTER-A too
commercial spirit characterizes our life.
1t is one thing for a people to possess a
commercial spirit, but quite n different
thing for that same spirit to possess their
body and soul Commerce and markets
are the just pride and employments of Il
nation, but they alone will not perpetuate
States. a great State must grow men.
chaIpct is the summit of nation
Hon. Charles q. Nicely, Baptist, Evans
ton, Ill.
RETwMPTION-No one can fall so
far away from God that the law of re-
demption can not reach him. The individ-
ual who has the ability TO fall very low
has also the ability to rise very high. if
only turned in the right direction. Some
people have no ability TO do either hut
no matter how dark the sinners record,
he may have full pardon through the
blood of Jesus Christ.--Rev. DR.. North
cult, Revivalist, Houston Texas.
WAR-This world seems to be one
great battle field. The ages are filed
with the groans of the sufferers. The
earth moves onward only to the music
of groans. We speak of peace, but 1t is
the peace of the future. not of the past.
Warfare seems to be the normal state
of the world. Plant feeds upon plant,
fish upon fish, beast upon beast. man
Christian Church, Kansas City, Mo.
THE PUBLIC SCIIOOLS-Thc star
of hone for the Nation rests over the
school house A school is Il fort. A IL
hrary an arsenal. Never since the world
began has such an opportunity been
given any lad as the one given Young
America. standing on the step of the free
school. his brow shaded by the American
flag. every stripe white with peace and
crimson with the warmth of kindred,
and every star ablaze with hope. Key
d. F. Fox Copgregationalist, Chicago,
Ill.
CORRECT LIVING-Men do not
need to lie told to repent and believe:
But they need more to have preached
to them II gospel of correct living and of
honest dealing. and of sixteen ounces to
the pound, and twelve inches to the foot,
and of three feet to the yard, and of
obedience. to the law and of all that be-
longs herewith. 1t makes difference
what man believes, but vastly more diff
ference how he lives.-Rev. DIR. Blake,
Congrcgatonalst, New London, Conn.
THE PRESSING have here no CEN
sorship of the press, that ubiquitous, ON
niverous. salacious. mendaclous, venal
cossping censorious, judgmatical char
dispensable monster. the champion giants
,, in all contests, the power which makes
and unmakes public opinion, photo
graphs the face of society and tries be,
forehand every government project and
every law in church or state of every
name and nature under heaven. The
courts in a. large sense have come, to be
simply the formal registers of the de-
cisions of the public press-Rev. DR..
Sunderland, Presbyterian Washington,
ID. G.
CLEVELAND AND ARMENIANS-
The president can hardly be too radical
/ am not sure but he would be war
ranted in violating the unwritten law
of this Nation that we will not interfere
with nations across the water ana AT
once serve notice on the sultan that I'M
less he puts stop TO the outrages we
will send an armed force to protect our
helpless fellow-men. And if we are asked