The morning times., 1896-08-10
LEGISLATION.

shall receive benefits in some fOrm.-Rev.
r. s. Macarthur, Baptist, New York.
LEGISLATION.
Legislation must reach TO the standard
of morality, even TO the punishment OF evil
doers, but there must be 10 religious legis-
lation. God gives iDfidels even and men
of every creed sunshine and rain, and SC
they have their rights in government Let
them have it In free America. Let us
have moral legislation, but no religious
legislation. George X. Kramer, Bap-
tist Brooklyn.
THE PEssIMIsT..
The best sort OF an Optimst is well
balanced pessimist q man who knows
black when he sees it and Is willing to
| call it black. Ills the man who sees the
coming sunset who foretells the march of
the cohorts of wind and storm, VIII points
to the open chasm, who does the world a
real service Rev. A. ]. Dixon, Baptist,
Brooklyn.
| THE TRUE MINISTRY.
A ministry that is really called of God
is body of men or women adapted to
promote and promulgate moral and spir-
itual truth. A preacher or q teacher
must have the power to communicate.
Seed in a granary does not gpropa gate it.
self. The pews must preach as well as
the pulpit. There must re living power
In the disciple ship Mrs. Sarah b. Cooper,
Evangelist, San Francisco.
MAN.
Who says man is worm? Did God spend
1,OOO, 900 years in shaping the world?
Did God spend 100000 years of toll
and painstakmg to bring forth Worm,
a thing of the dust, as the highest type?
No, man is not a Worm of the dust. He
is a creature of infinite capacities Rev
DR.. Holman, Congregationalist, Salt Lake
City.
DIVINE MISSIONS.
In perfect consistence with our belief
in the free agency OF man, we believe
that God calls certain men to do his work
as chosen vessels. They stand in various
relations to their fellows in the perform
ance of their work, but they fulfill a
divine mission. Thus We have in bright
succession Abraham, Moses, David, Nche-
miah, Paul, Athanasius, Luther, Wesley.
| Washin gton, Lincoln.-Rev. j. II. Mace,
Methodist, Camden, n. j.
| THE UNCHANGEABLE.
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from worse to better, for that would imply
that he was not perfect before the change;
nor from better to worse, for no being
would willingly cooperate to its own
deterioration; nor unwillingly, for that
would imply In the case OF God, a superior
being Therefore the existence OF God as
| perfect being implies his unchanscable-
| ness-Rev. DR.. Court, Presbyterian, Lowell,
Mass
THE POWER OF SIN.
Sin is a great power 1t looks weak
| enough at a distance. but up close it is
possessed with more than human strength
Some of us hear OF some great sin, aud
we say We would not commit that sin
| under auy conditions. But after awhile
things change, temptations are throwa
In our path until we commit the very sin
for which we expressed such abhorrence.
Rev T. w Bell, Baptist, Atlanta.
COOPERATION
The moral and religious elements of
city or State should not divide, but
cooperate and Concentrate their energies.
Methodist should not fight Baptist, nor
Presbyterian anita gonize zeCongregationaiist,
nor high church wrong low church. but all
devil and his legions Protestant Cath
olic. Jew and moral men OF no particular
creed can afford to stand shoulder to
shoulder against the ALI ed forces of
evi!-Rev A. j. Hawk, Methodist, Colum-
bus, Ohio.
PERILoUs TIMES.
The country has seen no more serious,
critical time since 1860 than 1T is pass
ing through now. Industries are para
lyzed, and there seems to be no assur-
ance of their revival. There is also dam
ger that we shall bring down upon our
selves an avalanche of disaster. 1t is
time to put away our purblind opti-
mism and coilosal national self-conceit
and strive to utilize all the wisdom OF our
best men.-Rev. Washington Gladden.,
Congregationalst, Columbus, Ohio.
TRUE AMERICANIsM.
In the coming campaign let the pre-
sumption OF sincerity and real desire to
serve the country lie with all who have
not forfeited their claim to it, and when
the President shall have been elected let
it be insisted on by all true patriots
that he is the head of the nation, not
the instrument of any party, and his
SOou ndiue anu idnhe are III tne keeping
of all loyal hearts.-Rev. B. F. McDan-
iel, Unitarian. Boston.
AMERICANISM.
The true patriot is not the ward hus-
tier or the millionaire or the native bore,
but the one who lives the good life de-
voted to the highest prosperity of the
home and State. Let others be true to
the land in which they live, but Ameri-
cans can and ought to be true to this,
their land, the land of their homes and
the arena of their children's children.
America then for Americans, who are
American.-Rev W. B. Leach, Methodist,
Chicago.
IMMORTALITY.
There is an incompleteness about every
thing on this side of the grave, and that
becomes an evidence OF immortality We
are never satisfied. The more we get
the more we want. We seem to touch
only the rim OF reality and to be ever
coming into contact with larger world.
We straightway become dissatisfied with
whatever We can comprehend. What does
it all mean? Are not all these but the
voices of prophets suggesting the land of
the infintte?-Rev. ]. 1. Vance, Presby-
terian, Nashville.
POWER OF HEPREsS.
That which chticses Presidents, re-
Dukes Congress, condemns Unconstitu-
tional laws, upholds the verdicts OF ju-
res and the decisions of the judges is the
American press Free and tunbought are