The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-02-13
Religious Thoughts

Religious Thoughts
AN EPIToME OF SERMONS OF THE WEEK
BY EMINENT CLERGYMEN OF VARIOUS
DENOMINATIONS.
AToNEMENT. The essence of the atone
ment is a fathomless plan worthy of a low
ing God whereby he is able to forgive his
penitent creatures and do no injustice
Rev. f. w. Luce, Methodist, Davenport
FUTURE PUNISHMENT. 1t matters not
whether there is an extraneous torment
in the future life OF not. The suffering
of the unrepentant soul for sin will be in
finite and terrible. REV. Z. H. Dorm
flasher, Lutheran, Springfield, 0.
SELEIsuNEss. Selfishness is the worm
that eats the divine life cut of the heart
of man. Selfishness is the giant that bat
ties with Christ TOR the souls Of men.
Rev. c. 5. Sargent Congregationalist,
St Louis, Missouri.
LABOR STRIKES. | do not believe in
strikes. 1t is not the way to settle diff
eulties between employer and employe. \
strike does harm to both parties, and then
it gives chance to lawless people to do
evil Rev. J. W. Sullivan, Baptist Phil
adelphia, Pa.
HAPPINESS. The true secret of happ-
ness is giving what costs US something
what we sacrifice something for 1t makes
no difference as to the value of the gift
it is giving with love in the heart which
makes the true recompense. Rev. Jo-
seph Rennie, Presbyterian, Covington, Ky.
INTELLIGENCE. The glory of God is IN
telligence, but not the kind of intelligence
that comes merely of scholastic training
man may be worldly wise and yet a fool
for saying there is no God. Intelligence
is priesthood and not anything of the
earth earthly. George Teasdale, Nor
mon, Salt Lake City, Utah.
CAPITAL AND LABOR With passion
on the one side and capital on the other
with nation in danger of being cut in
twain by these battles between the upper
and lower classes-the only way to settle
these quarrels is by the Intervention of
law and justice. [Rev. Lyman Abbott,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
THEoLOGIANS. You have not made
man lawyer when you have furnished
him with license and code. You cannot
make physician out OF a box of pills and
a case of Instruments. Neither can you
make ministers of Christ with ecclesias-
tical ritual and vestments. Rev. DR..
Vance, Nashville, Tenn.
POWER OF THE CHURCH. The saloons
exist to- day by permission of the Chris
tian Church, and every other evil lives be-
cause Christian people tolerate it. The
Church of to-day, would she but use her
power, would mold public sentiment );
would outline State and national iegisla-
ton, and control the business in the
marts of trade. Rev. J. F. Hartman,
Lutheran Altoona, Pa
UNITY. The peoples of the earth are
coming closer and closer together. The
standards of citizenship and character are
universally rising We are coming to a
common tongue, or else to a common I'M
Outstanding of all tongues. The elements
of religion are coming to be recognized as
universal, and the old religious hatreds
are dying out. Rev. S. B. Stewart, Uni
tartan, Lynn, Mass.
The Press. The press of to-day is ex-
ercising d tremendous power. 1t arraigns
political parties, straightens out corpora
tions, unearths crimes and discusses STRAIT
egic points in state smanship. 1t even
collars irate theological disputants 1t
opens larger mission for the church by