The herald., 1896-12-20


The mission of the church and the mis-
sion of Christ are inseparable, and it
must be holy by reason of its founder
and of its purpose.-Rev. Father O'Sul-
Ivan, Roman Catholic, Denver. Col
CLERGYMEN.
The vocation Of the minister Is from
God, but the avocation is simply
method of making livelihood. The
peril of this country today is that faith
the first place, the fault of the ministers.
There is kind of Jesuitism in the Prot.
estant churches as shrewd and false as
any that was ever charged upon the fol-
lowers of Ignatius Loyola- If minis
ter dare to speak out the church ma
chine fires him.-John G. Wooley, Pro-
hibitionist, Boston, Mass.
frR REVEALS.
A revival implies religious declension
and is itself such waking up and in
tensifying of the religious life of the
church as leads to the conversion Of
sinners. 1t IS beautifully expressed by
King David: Create in me a clean
heart, o God, and renew right spirit
within me. Restore unto me the joy of
Thy salvation and uphold me with Thy
free spirit. Then will teach transgres-
sors Thy ways and sinners shall be con-
verted unto Thee. Rev. ]. w. Mar
shall, Methodist. Camden, N. ].
se MUSIC.
Music probably makes more univer-
sal appeal to the sense of the beautiful
in men than any other of the arts. The
uncultivated man, who quite misses the
beauty of a fine picture, generally feels
the charm of good music. 1t may be due
to this fact that music takes precedence
of every other art in the Bible. Beauty
and truth run side by side through all it's
pages, and the character which it holds
up to men is one in which they are in
separately blended together.-Rev. c.. T.
Brown, Congregationalist, Salt Lake
City, Utah.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Do you seek beauty? In the Catholic
church you find it's loveliest forms. Do
you seek truth? There you find its
clearest accents. Do you seek power?
BY divine right and with sublime majes-
ty. she exercises and perpetuates a
dominion that is heaven-born. Do you
seek liberty? There you find the liberty
Of the very children of God. There you
find the very essence of mans birth
right. There you find the divine virtue
of faith in Gods revelations, hope in his
mercy, and love for his incarnate divin-
ity.-Rev. ]. c. Cary, Roman Catholic,
Philadelphia, Pa.
SPREADING THE GOSPEL.
Our age. marked by an unprecedented
expansion Of knowledge, is one of doubt.
Side by side with great levity we find
widespread melancholy. Yet there is
also an observable reaching out for the
Christ of the Gospels and for those re-
generating social and individual forces
the Gospel has in the centuries past re-
vealed. Therefore. upon those who know
Christ and to whom the Gospel is a liv-
ing experience, there settles a tremen-
dous responsibility. What has been so
real to such must now in turn be made
real to others.-Rev. NJ. McGregor Dana,
Congregationalist, Brooklyn, N. Y.
BANKS FOR LOSINGS.
The temperance young man puts his
money in the savings banks. The drink
ing young man deposits his in the saloon.
DR.. Cuyler calls the saloons banks of
losings." The only interest that is paid
on the deposits is in redness Of the eyes,
and foulness Of breath, and remorse of
conscience, and loss of health and happi-
ness and character Every one who
makes a deposit gains loss. One man
goes into this bank with full pocket and
comes out with it empty. Another goes
in with good character and comes out
with the word drunk written on his
bloated countenance.-Rev. Frank Hun
gate, Baptist, Columbus, Ohio
MORALITY AND PATRIOTISM
There is an inseparable connection be-
tween patriotism and morality They
are constantly acting and reacting on
each other. A decline cannot take place
in one and not In the other. If there has
been decline in our national morality,
you may be sure that it has not taken
place without corresponding decline in
patriotism. If patriotism has declined,
you need no other proof that morality
has also declined. Morality must be
patriotic. Patriotism must be moral
Unpatriotic morality is contradiction
in terms. For to be unpatriotic is to be
selfish, and to be selfish is to be immoral.
Rev. w. r. Taylor, Methodist, Roch-
ester, N. Y.
THE MONEY BARONS
The wealth of the few has increased so
fast that there is talk of limiting its
acquisition to specified amount Beech
er said we were coming to reign of the
I common pa0ple. 1t seems u me that
we are coming to reign of'the money
barons. Men sit down and calculate
whether it might not pay to buy legis-
iature. Our fathers came over here to
escape from tyrants, but the money ty-
rants bid fair to become almost as op-
pressive. The time is coming when
every man will ask himself whether he
really and actually owns his own soul
and body, and whether by legislation OF
in some other right way the power of the
money tyrants cannot be overthrown.-
Rev ]. M. Wallace, United Presbyterian
Pittsburg, Pa.
| RECIPROCITY
Reciprocity is the law of practical. ma
tional and religious life How close and
reciprocal are all the relations of daily
! life. laborer places all of his modest
wages, beyond what is needed to sup
port himself and family, in savings
bank building association or insurance
policy. The accumulated capital is
| loaned to merchant or manufacturer. A
| factory is built Merchant loans profits
of his business to railroads. Loans are
made to government of states or United
States or. municipalities The life of the
laborer. the education of his children
the prosperity of the employer depend
upon the conscious or unconscious recog.
milton of the reciprocity of labor-Rey
{. II. Eaton, Universalist, New York city
LOVE.
| No music produced by the southern
| breezes playing over an aeolian harp is
| sweeter than the music of love. No an
| gers voice is more seraphic than the
voice of love. No star that ever shone in
| the broad armament more beauteous
than love. No perfumed blossom ever
shed more fragrant odor than the aroma
of love. 1t is the alpha and omega Of
| life 1t suggests the peace of the mid
summer eve. the serenity of the moon
the glowing splendor of the sun, the
magnificence of the majestic ocean. II
blesses and endears life here 1t hallows
and consecrates life hereafter. It is the