The morning times., 1896-10-05
SERMONS FOR THE PEOPLE
Topics Discussed by Ministers
From Many Pulpits.
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THEY REACHED THE MASSES
Rev. a. "A. .kichle Says the Most Sue
c-ssful Man 1, the One who Strng-
giles for rHinself-There Is No Peace
ON Earth, Suys Another-Bnd Men
Make Politics Unclean.

VII ''uN - A'"A -
Make Politics Unclean.
Following is.a summary Of the principal
sermons recently delivered in the United
States and Canada hy the leading dcrGy-
men, priests, prclatcS, religious teachers
and professors of The Christian faith. In
every instance the text has been carefully
read and ahbrcviated:
SUCCESSFUL MEN.
Who is the man most successful in life"
IL is not tne man VINO makes the most
money. He is not the most successful
man by n good deal. IL is the man who
has strength ana VINO stru.Sles iOr hin-
self, has an "a agiecyc tiIathc may see alta
distance ana LOOKS up 10 The Lord. Key. y.
\. kiehc. 'FTesn.Irfinn. Milwaukee.
RIGHT AND WRONG.
There is no doubt that this material
word is governed pN;l wondrous and ii.ust
unDendins II not most relentless law. All
men nave Il cOnyilCiun nat there is Il right
and wrohE. No man can ever bring HIM
self to honestly feel h. ought To do the thing
he know : is wrUnG-Rcv. +. y. Riale, Tres
bytcrian, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
SOCIOLOGY.
By means OF modern sociological ma
chlncry We arr. studying the nasSrs OF tie
world IN their aCJHai' ai'Cuntiltions. We must
know these before We can know men. We
We must 40 where they are, adapt our
selves to theg,l- and hit them INTO the
spiritual life. .-Bcv. L. B. VrUum, rTcsby-
terrain, Chicago. a H
HUNGER
The world is crowded with men hungry
anu eager for The very things that The
Christian church STANDS for, sympathy.
honesty. s!Hyetlty. purity, love. " hen
The church has been made attractive III
these things, men VIII turn To ii rs the
hungry toward u least or the thirsty toward
a cooling spring. Rev, :. a. Martin. Pres
bytcrIau. ChainbcrShuTs. Pa.
NOISE.
The less noise III a community the higher
the civilization. Every inventor n making
a machine tres to make It SO hat IL Will
run quieter than Tie one upon the market
by his competitor. Our natures in every
department are continually making their
plea Tor cessation from noise. Rev. X
BoyntOn, Baptist, Detroit.
No PEACE on EARTH
4 survey Of human life would seem to
Indicate tlIt tile majority ur men and
women find little ZeSt in life. stand ON
Il street corner and study tie cupntcuauCcS
of The mulitudc> asthey passby. How little
there is that is suggestive Of huoyancy and
Overlooking GladucSs. or even uf settled
peace Key. &. ELHcTs. Baptist, Brook
lyD.
FORGIVENESS.
Forgiveness "a sin is re greatest boon
to the human heart. Other blessings tUl-
low richly III ilS IRAN. MS the keystone
OF the arch binding together GODS covenant.
1t Is the Cpcn door through which come
truOpIng the blessings OF mvine love. Get
tins ana YOU get the key tu the stnrchouse.
Key. George Cooper. bap,ist. RiCiinuid.
POLITICS.
Politics is unclcan only because bad men
make II 81 ana good men consent Ia nave
IL 30. He is surely a bad man who is not
a good citizen. a vote is a VOW and "A
VOW Is 4 promise 10 ti"'i. Why do We rot
carry The law oi good and night into our
citizenship AS well as into our homes and
places oI huslnessr-Rev. NJ. w. Stryker.
CongrcgatIUnalist, Grand Rapids.
THE LAW OF PRAYER
Prayer is law of the kingdom Of grace.
an UrdafneSs lse;ens "a secure blessing. as
liked and certain as any law OF nature.
There Is nothing arbitrary in the law. 1t
is ordainel HAT We, must GAIL upon him in
the day or trouble. In the reflex influ-
ences- OF prayer there is a blessing; it
Key j. Ii. Boggs, Presbyterian, Phil;tucl-
phia.
FAITH.
Faith is the friend that holds constantly
before the Christians eyes. through night
and through day, through sorrow and
through JOY, through deTeat and through
success. through weakness and through
strength, through temptations and through
victory. through life and through death.
the uncovered Iorm OF the invisible .-Rcy.
L. N. Tipple. Methodist, New York.
GREATNESS.
Goodness and greatness were SO con-
fused III the minus or the people in the
past that they could hardly distinguish
between the two. Great men after their
ueati!F have monuments erected to their
memory by their fellow men. Good men
| need no monuments: thcir lives are open
books and they answer the purpose Of
Presbyterian. Philadelphia.
WISDOM
The realm of knowledge is boundlcss.
| The vault of all mystery is still un-
| broken There are yet continents of
knowledge undiscoycch; oceans of wis
| in which the pick OF revelation has not
entered. ana mountains of trath whose
| sunlit summit human foot has never trod
or mortal eve hchcid.-Rcv. F. Il. Short.
Methodist, Wilmington, Del.
IMPULSE
The fact that man has strong impulses
| is nothing against h!n. II is only when
| the impulse insists upon going wrong tilat
| it needs correction. In its natural CON
| ditiuu life is of the Wrong quality. It
| is external, fragm"ntary, inc Complctc, self
| Centcred. and lacks higil and joyous con-
! ception of God. \ fresh start and new
direction are necdci.-Rcv. B. L. Whitman,
Washington.
TRUTHFULNEss
Disastrous failures are constantly occur
| ring among business men for lack of truth
| fulncSs. A boy who has an established
| rcpul laticn for unrcliabilty in his state
mcntS ScannGyeraciIievr! large success. There
| can lie no finer concentration, no nobler
| tribute than a reputation for absolute truth
fulness.-Rcv. W X. Beans, Methodist, Salt
| Lake City.
SELFISiNESS.
There is such a thing as se!fishncSs in at
| tending the house OF the Lord. Ones re-
| ligiuuS experiences are Il curse rather than
| a blessing unless one uses them TO promote
| the Kingdom of God and the brotherhood
| of man Be like a cloud which absOrbs
| moisture that it may give it to the thirsty
car,lI. not like q sponge, the sole function
| of which is 10 abforb.-Rcy. J. W. Lyel,
| Baptist, Camden, n. j.
THE BEYOND
| The loved ones gone before although
| often forgotten by The living, do not for.
| get those still on earth, and when the
| mortal fights n battle against sin and
filings it from him they rejoice In his
| victory and make the heavens ring with
their Jubilant songs. Death does not af.
| feet the mind except TO intensity it,
! and those who have gone before sympa.
| thiZe with us In trouble. grieve for our
! sorrow and eXult in our good fortune =
Rev. DR.. Ollie, Methodist. San Francisco.
FISHERMEN.
If Jesus ever seemed to show any par
| tiality for any one class, 1t was for fisher
men With habits OF life that divorced
| them from the cunvcntionalities of the
! world and welded them to the primal
! forces u nd processes of nature, they We're
| peculiarly adapted to undcrsta nd the voice
| OF kinship when it said, Follow me, and
| / will make you fishers of men," The
| fish Is the oldest and most nearly uni
versal symbol OF Christianity.-Rcv F H.