The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
Of the people.-Rev. C. H. wOoIston, Baptist.
Philadelphia, Pa


PARENTAGE.
! In dignity is recognized the attitude of the
parent to the child as that OF the judge to the
people or OF the ruler to his subjects, exacting
and requiring of them respect, attention and
obedience.-Rev. Father cunningham, Catholic,
Albany, NY.
EVIL FRUIT
tree is known by its fruit and man ia
judged according to his light. Rum and bad
companions lead men 20 prison, and loss of
character is the greatest misfortune man can
chester, Pa.
value Unitarianism for its absolute intel
lectual sincerity-because it dares to think
freely and speak openly It has no reservations
to make. 1t unequivocally accepts
knowledge and stands in the liberty where
with Christ has set us free.-ReY. Samuel A,
Elliott, Unitarian, Brooklyn, NY.
THE BIBLE.
Let some Robinson Crusoe be washed ashore
among the heather without a Bible, and
would be formed, duties would develop society
would write their Bibles out of the heart of
their own life-Rev. L. H. squires, Universal
ist, Rochester, N. Y.
CITIZENSHIP.
Politics and religion are twin brothers They
go hand in hand, and are hardly discernible
very broad line between his religion and his
politics has very narrow view of his duty as
citizen;-Rev. P. Il. Mowry. Presby yterian,
Chester, Pa.
Baptism is the most necessary Of all sacra-
ments, for 1t is the crate or door of all others;
tism we cannot validly receive any of the
others: without it we cannot be saved; we are
unfit for eternal glory.-Rey. Father Dwyer,
Catholic, Cleveland Ohio.
PRAYER.
Prayer, as conducted in public by the
churches, is in direct violation of his injunc-
ton that 1t must be in secret, and not in the
synagogue or on the streets, and that it must
PRAYER.
and not by vain repetition of words.-George
M. Cotin, Theosophfst, Washington, D. C.
VEGETARIANIsn.
| Some people go so far that they believe dogs
and cats and oxen have immortal souls, and,
| therefore, ought never to be killed am no
vegetarian, and cannot swallow all that bosh
| and soup. Beefsteak was made to eat.-Rev,
FRANK De Witt Talmage, Presbyterian, Pitts
| burg, Pa.
| The ladder that Jacob saw is Christ. It
reaches from earth to the battlements OF
heaven. 1t Is a ladder for all-Roman Catholic
1900 years infdels like IngersoIl have come
along with their little hGtehet and haggled
away, but the ladder still stands.-Rev. DR..
Crossley, evangelist, Halifax, n. S.
THE NEW JAPAN.
1t is the anticipation of Japan to beat Eng
land In the East, and she believes the United
world japan means to have an interest in
Europe. She wants to be in the world what
England has been for centuries. she will do it
if she can.-Rev. +. w. Hamilton, UniVersalist,
Roxbury, Mass.
RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS.
Religion is not a matter OF opinion, but of
honest men, belief must needs follow convic-
ton OF truth To be convinced of truth and
not to act upon it is to outrage the scull, to
tamper with the moral consciousness. and to
let the moral life ebD away.-Rev. Charles E.
Murray, Wilmington, Del.
oyERwoRK.
We American people work too hard. We try
to press too many results into the allotted
hours of the day and into one short life. We
thirst for power, for advancement, prosperity,
money, and the consequence is we live too
We do not take enough rest, enough recrea-
tion:-Rev. John +. Harding, Episcopalian,
NY.
CHILDREN.
The secret of the management of children is
love; not that foolish love that sees in them
no faults or Overlooks these faults, but that
in anger-no child should ever be so punished
but in sorrow, sorrow the child can see, and
Carne, Catholic, Richmond, Va.
POLITICS AND RELIGION.
Garry your religion into your politics. Call
no man master but the Lord Jesus Christ Vote
| against corruption, against bribery, against
| bossism, against the rum power, and even
! though you vote alone you will not be throw
! ing away your vote. 1t will be registered in
| the estimation of God, and some day he will
|
| odist, Philadelphia, Pa.
DANCING.
The ballroom Is spiritual death to the pro-
! fessor of religion, and only backsliders and
| sinners love it. Christians lose all respect for
| professors who frequent the ballroom. The
man or woman who frequents the ballroom
| must keep away from the seeker of religion.
Police records show that the largest portion of
abandoned women were ruined in connection
with dancing. Rev. j. E. Nicholas, Methodist,
Rome, N. Y.
IYGERsoIL.
do not know that Mr.. Ingerson will ever
accept the divinity of Christ as a truth, but if
amples along practical lines Mr. Ingerson
has been power, because much of what he
says is true-and the people know it. We will
never win him by abuse. His burning words
have made even the clergy think.-Rey. John
Rusk, Chicago.
THE SALOON
The saloon is the focus of all that is evil.
Any definition and description of the saloon
must be an indictment. 1t is the enemy of
mankind, the enemy of the home, the enemy
of the state, the last ditch of municipal mis-
rule and the enemy fof the church. 1t builds
an impossible barrier between man and his
God, filling his heart with hatred for things
good and pure.-ReY. a. G. Ellis, Methodist
Oil City, Pa.
METHoDIsM.
Methodism stands out pre-eminent as having
silenced the barbarous doctrines of Calvinism,
and the world owes them gratitude. The
Calvinist preached that it had been pre-
determined by God that SO many souls were to
w ShN0o anu So lnhHy were 10 go 10 perQlI1On.
1t was the Methodists that came out with the
democratic and universal policy that pro-
vision had been made for all. If Methodism
has not saved soul IL has sienced the guns of
Calvinlsm and has thereby done noble work
Rev. N. F. Dickerman, Universelist New Haven,
Conn.
CoNYENTIoNALITY.
Family life is easily destroyed by undue
familiarity, fact sadly eSta blished by the con-
dition of homes all of whose members are
herded together in q single room, all barriers
being cast down. There may easily be undue
familiarity in homes OF many rooms. 1t may
be between husband and wife, between parents
and children. and this undue familiarity may
be as ruinous that which is from the abb
sence of partition walls. Familiarity is de-
structive of that which in feeling is most
delicate and most precious. We want con-
ventionalities in our home life that the life of
the home may be protected and may be made
fairer and richer.-Rev. Dr.. Jenkins, Baptist,
Portland, Me.
| Prince Sergius Wolonsky of Russia will
be the guest of Professor Charles Eliot
Norton of Harvard while he is delivering
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