The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PROGRESS
An Epitome Of Sermons Of the Week
Throughout the Land.

Throughout the Land.
Following is a summary of the principal
sermons recently delivered in the United
States and Canada by the leading clergy
men, priests, prelates. religious teachers
and professors of the Christian faith. In
every instance the full text has been care
fully read and abbreviated:
WILL POWER.
Will power is an uncertain, freakish thing
1t cannot be depended on. The keeping power
is not in man, but in God.-Rev. w. II. G. Tenn
pie, Seattle, Wash.
THE SOCIAL EVIL.
Women can cure the social evil by stamping
OF infamy with which they condemn his vic
tim.-Rev. G. f. Henry, Universalist, Cleye-
land, Ohio.
CATHOLICISM
Let US pay tribute of honest respect to the
Catholic church for what it has done of good in
the past, for the good that it is doing now
Rev. DR.. Gunnlson, Universalist, Worcester,
Mass.
The church should regard the rights of tn e
| laborer to be as sacred and binding as those of
| the millionaire. The laboring men of to-day.
need justice. not pity.-Rev. II. R. Murphy,
Baptist Lincoln, Neb.
! LIBERAL CALHoLICs.
The Catholics are becoming more liberal.
! %
and believe that they do as much good. per-
haps, as any other religious sect.-Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, Washington, D. c.
| WOMAN.
God is not in the hurricane or in the earth
quake, but in the still, small voice. The world
| will not be reformed by ronclads and armies
but by woman-M NJ. Mangasarian, Ethical
| Society, New York.
PRESBYTERIANISM.
These things find especially to commend in
| Presbytcria nism: Its stanch adherence to the
Bible; its great services in behalf OF civil and
| religious liberty, and its educated ministry in
! permanent pastorate-Rev. J. C. Jackson,
! Presbyterian, Columbus, Ohio.
| THE QUAKERs.
There is still work for to do to maintain
! the same testimonies as our forefathers did
| Though we may be small in numbers our infiu-
| ence is felt more widely than ever before
Isaac II. Hillborn, Society OF Friends, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
| TRINITY CHURCH.
The most wealthy church corporation in our
| country is the Trinity Episcopal Church of New
York, and the miserable tenement houses from
| grace TO humanity.-Rev. II. w. Thomas Inde-
| pendent, Chicago, III.
THE RUM POWER.
We are within ten years OF the time when
will enter mortal struggle with the rum
selling element, and it is now time to prepare
for the great battle.-Rey. Dr.. Meredith, Con-
| gregationalist, Brooklyn, n. Y.
REFORM.
Any reform which at the present time un-
dertakes to strike down the individual right
TO get drunk or to bet or to desecrate the Lords
day. as mere individual, is sure to overreach
the public conscience and so overshoot its own
mark.-Rev. g. r. Noland, Episcopalian, Cov-
lngton, KY.
The accumulating of money is not so much
brain work as it is the use of money al
ready possessed. Millionaires can make all
those below them pay toll at their will. Capi-
talists take everything from the labori1g man
except the. man himsslf.-Rev. B. F. Mills,
Evangelist New Haven, Conn
WORSHIP AND WORK.
Worship is important, but worship is only a.
means. Worship is in order to work. The
worship that does not lead to work is like a
frost-bitten flower. On the other hand, the
work that is not inspired by worship is fore
gone failure.-Rev. DR.. Vance, Presbyterian
Nashville, Tenn.
| UNITARIANIsM.
IlThe UnItarians cannot be antedated There
are churches that are always seeking q remote
date in history for their origin. No religion
except that OF the Jews can antedate Unitarian
ism. 1t is older than the Christian religion,
and was established even earlier than the
| Bible.-Rev. w. T. Dickerman, Unitarian New
| Haven, Conn.
| SISTERS OF CHARITY.
1t is the mission of our church to send into
the world those angels of mercy and console-
ton, whose lives are devoted to nourishing
the poor, to attending upon the sick and to
going even into the ravages or war-those
nuns.oRev Father Farrell, Catholic, Cleve-
| land, Ohio.
CONSCIENCE.
| Man draws up the channels of diyine
strength and enfeebles his whole moral being
when he does not follow his conscience For
the diyinest thing in man is his conscience.
| and If he has dishonored God in his soul God
| cannot honor him in his life with power.ERey.
! S. B. Meeser, Baptist, Worcester, Mass.
PRoCRAsTINATIoN.
~, Multitudes lose heaven by procrastination.
They are "too busy to be saved The pleas
ures OF the world they prefer to the salvation
OF their immortal souls. Sins are chains to pre-
vent men from accepting Jesus Christ as
! Savior. We must repent to-day. There is no
tomorrow in the gospel message.-Rey. w. G.
Partridge, Baptist, Cincinnati, Ohio.
POWER OF GOD.
| What is commonly described as the greatness
| of man really consists only in mans discovery
| of Gods natural powers and their application.
Watts. who first studied steam power, and
Stevenson, who applied the power, Edison and
Morse displayed their inventive greatness in
discovering and applying Gods natural powers
rather than by creating any power of their
own.-Chaplain McCabe, Methodist, Scranton,
Pa.
PERSECUTION
Religious persecution of every kind is abhor-
rent, and certainly foreign to the spirit of this
! age, and the persecution of the Christians by
the Turks is as much condemned by every hui
name man among US as that of the Jews by the
Christians. Persecution arouses the liveliest
repugnance and calls fosth the creates [ inCi g.
nation from all true men and women-Rabbi
David Philipson, Hebrew, Cincinnati, Ohio
FAITH.
Life is hard: life is a struggle; life is a mys-
terry, but life is not SO hard but that we can
endure it, life is not so much struggle but
that we can win; life is not so much mystery
but that we can find our way through it to
the land where all is clear. 1t depends on our
faith.-Rev. w. P. Merrill, Presbyterian, Chi
cago, III.
CITIZENSHIP.
The day is past when a dead conscience is
the price OF party loyalty. They are the best
party men who stand for the right, and as a
partisan l dare to say that party does not
merit success which must achieve it at the cost
of degraded manhood. The day has come
when it is good politics to listen to the voice of
righteous citizens. = Rev. S. Z. Nicholson,
Kokomo, Ind.
THE DECALOGUE.
The Decalogue may go out of fashion but
never out of date. 1t is not local. 1t applies
to the Fuegians and the Bushmsn of Australia
equally as to the Americans and Europeans
1t is not partial, but all comprehensive of
mans duties to his neighbors 1t makes no
no 6ictin &c lou,