The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-02-13
The Republican Journal Thursday Morning February = 1885,

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disseminating Sunday thoughts through
the week. 1t is lifting up the whole ma
ton. 1t is itself liberal education. REV
W. H. G. Temple, Congregationalist,
Seattle, Wash.
CIRCUMsPECTIoN. To walk circun-
spect is to walk with head up and eyes
open. Legs and head and eyes and heart
all at work examining the past, searching
the present and scanning the future Not
looking back only, not looking up only,
but looking up and down and back and
forward, looking all around. That is
what circumspection is. REV. E. b.
Rogers, Baptist, Springfield, III.
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT The chief
end of the existence of city corporation
is to afford protection to person and to
property. In other words, the chief end
of city is to maintain righteousness and
to put down wickedness. Some people
think the city belongs to Councils and the
countryman thinks it belong to the po-
liceman with his brass buttons. [Rev. P.
II. Mowry, Presbyterian, Chester, Pa
| GROVER CLEVELAND. He has been
dragged from his place as statesman
down to the level of the political leeches
that surround him. BY one breath of hi S
mouth he threw millions Of the people S
money in the maelstrom of financial ruin
in another breath he piteously invokes
| his Congress to avert the crash he has
called down upon our heads. Rev. Fl.
E. Cotton, Hagerstown, Md.
CANT. The talk that comes from
mouths Of people who look wise but are
not is nothing. A man may be COMMIT
meant, may be regular in prayer, and be
a very bad man. | hate this cant that
passes itself in name of piety; the dispo
sition to do things on Sunday and never
think of them again until the next Sun
day. Rev. John Heal, Episcopalian
Rochester, \. Y.
LUCK AND PLUCK. There is no sucl
thing as luck. Luck pluck. Luck is 8
foolish doctrine of fate; it is the Stiffness
OF superstition; it is the cynicism Of fools
incompetents and failures. You neve
hear a real sensible man talking abou
luck; he knows the philosophy of success
too well; he knows the meaning of patti
ence and painstaking care, of energy ant
economy Rev. j. G. Rust, Baptist
| Nashville, ct.
CLARA BARTON. In a dozen disasters
Clara Barton has rendered aid. Now a
the time of life when most people are seek
ing rest and ease she is to cross the ocean
on the most perilous mission of her life
A soul like Clara Barton's belongs to n,
nation, no sect, no religion. She is create
than any nationality or human institution
Her heart is as large as the world, he
spirit as broad as the universe. Rev. B
F. Eaton, Worcester, Mass
EDUCATION. No country is saved by
multitude of books or school houses. 4
man is in danger of being roasted aliv
who at this time of day will dare to ute
such heresy, but it needs to be uttered
knowledge is power, indeed; and so il
dynamite, but you need to be careful a.
to the hands to which you intrust it. An,
education needs to be sanctifed by relig
ion to make it safe. Rev. P. S. Henson
Baptist, Chicago, Illinois.
TURKEY. If ever there was a putrefy
ing carcass in the shape Of nation, it i
the so called Turkish Government, owe
which | hope, at this moment, hover TIL
eagles of God S avenging judgments: no
that | mean to be merciless TO the iadi
vidual man, black hearted and brutal a
he may be, but the instinct of htnnanit
does seem to call for the wiping out of tn
very name of Turkey from the register o
nations. Rev. n. q. Fetter, Baptist
Doylestown, Pa.
SOCIAL PURITY. In all the past socie
ty has demanded purity on the part o
woman. \ woman crown is her purity
il she loses this crown ii is almost an i'm
posi- bility to reinstate her in society. Bd
society has been 50 constituted that a ma
could be vicious in conduct and deprave
in life, and yet find an entrance to goo
society. 1t is high time that societ
should demand the same purity Of a ma
as is demanded of a woman. Rev. F. A
/, Scofield, Methodist, New Haven, Conn.
IMPERFECTIoN. No persons faith O
love OF reverence is perfect The trenl
bling fears and hopes and anxietieS Of If
have not trembled to their final poise an
rest. No mans work is done. A sens
of imperfection still fingers in all nobl c
earnest souls. There is imperfection il
our judgments, a want Of charity: there i
lack OF SGit-cOntrol, a want OF patience,
lack of steadiness OF purpose, which de
stroys our identity; a want Of elaboration
We act first and then think. We do thing
too rapidly. REV. E. l.. Rexford, Uni
versalist, Columbus, O.
FAITH AND DOUBT. Faith is the natul
al attitude toward truth and our fellow
men. Doubt is begotten of experience
Trusting God is not stranger than trust
ing our dearest friend. Faith is the root
1t is not believing a set Of proposition
about God that makes the Christian
but it is believing in God himself. Fait
in God is trusting him, just as you woul
trust a surgeon with your life, only in
higher degree. When one believes in tb
things in the Bible, when one trusts hi
life and eternity in Gods hands, then
faith true. The object of faith is not
doctrine or creed, but believing. Re,
DR.. McClintock, Presbyterian, Burling
ton, 10.
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