The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-17

VULGAR MAN.--Nothing 10 too sacred
for mans vulgar and pr0fane toucn.--heV
Or. Hills, Independent. Chicago, Ill.
RIGHT is MIGHT. Right is might God
\ * moro than nature; spirit Is more than
\ BODY Rabbi D. Phllipson, Hebrew, en-
X cinnati, Ohio.
VI INWARD POWER. Look inward. for
K Sp,, have 4 lasting fountain OF happiness
Al home that will bubble up II you but
dgg for it,---Rev. II. 0. Pentacoet, lnlepsnd-
Z emit, New York City.
I. REST MAN needs one days complete
\ rest In every seven In order that he i've
long in tho land, hsalthy In the body,
mind and splrltuallty.-Re Lucian Clark,
Z Baptist, Washington, d. G.
HIS POINT OF vIEW.-No man secs
I. life as The minister. He secs the fraud,
deception and sin In Il, and by this Is pre-
\ pared to preach tho truth unto people
Rev. J. w. Sullivan, Baptist Philadel-
phtA IA.
PROSPEROUS EvILe--Why do the
wicked prosper? Ia often asked. The an
swer Is, because we let phem, and because
by their business ability and enterprise
they deserve to- Rev. st. C. Wright Uni
tartan. New York City.
MISTAKES. --ralleyrand said that n
blundrr WIS wogec than crime. The
guilt cf the blundercr Is not MS great as
Chat OF a criminal but he may do a. much
harm, REV c. W. Gullette, Metho list,
= Cincinnati, Ohio.
SEPARATION.--The Is one doctrine
Which must be preached in every possible
manner and that Is tho doctrine OF sep
aration. We must be separated from our
sins. Rey. Or. Chapman. Presbyterian,
Philadelphia, Pa.
UNSELFIsHNESs. Love. from its very
nature means unselflshness. but It means
something moroit means the power 10 re-
produce In myself states OF consciousness
which others feel.--Rev. Thomas Van Ness,
Unitarian, Boston, Mass. ses.
BROTHERLY LovE.-ft is only by a
mans living In the closest relationship
with Him In thought and word and deed
10 layr his neighbor. as hhnselt REV. G.,
~ Field, Episcopalan. Boston. Mass
3ENEVOLENCE.- The term "lovc," MS
used In the New Testament is the generic
expression for the sum OF all bencvolencc.
1t is the all-including symbol for the whole
content Of mans duty to man.-Rcv. A. A..
Berle, Congregationalist, Boston, Mass.
ENyY.--Why is II that the poor man
looks with envy upon the rich man and
wishes to resort TO revolutionary measures
for the even distribution of Gods goods II
Is all through want %, confidence In Cod
Rev. John Scully, Catholic, Philadelphia,
Pa.
ANGELS.--All men who admit the au-
thority Of holy scriptures must admit tho
existence Of creatures called angels, who
are distinct, on the one hand, from God, and
on the ether from the visible world and
frcm man Rev. a. 7. Connolly, Catholic
Boston. Mass
MlRACLES.--To believe IN the Bible ia
one thing and to believe in all the inter
pretattons which men have. given to It In
the past IL another. The miracles which
God has performed fully accept. but the
miracles which commentators have mag
ined am free to reject. Rev. r, S. Me-
Arthur. Baptist, New York City.
FORWARD. Before Christianity existed
Egypt, GREECE ind Rome gave evidence Of
elevated conditions in the regions of art.
intellect and morals. The command to tho
world les ''onwardl Forward" Gods ways
OF nature Is found In motion. Gods ways
are those whsch advance mankind.--Rabbl
r. Lasker. Hebrew. Boston, Mass.
FUTURE PoSSIBILlTfEs.- The future
with i.e glorious possibilities is not an IL
on-tiod lives. Let the Jew who has
loSt his bearings seek them In the inspira-
Mons that fired his fathers souls. He will
not fail to find them. They are not for
him alone, but through him for all man.
kind y Rev, DIR. Ber-Kourtz, Hebrew,
Philadelphia. Pa.
MARRIAGE V0WS-Is II not terrible
thing 10 contemplate the manner in which
many OF our marriages are contracted and
the frequency with which they are broken
Ia Is often the case that men and women
are married who have no more thought Of
the VOWS they take than IL they We're drly-
ing simple bargajn.-Rev. II. X. Morse
Baptist New ynrf ritv
A MINISTER AS FINANcIER. lin
many places the minister must be a very
Napoleon CT finance. II there Is deficit
at the end OF the year he Is held respon-
sibie. II his drawing power can he trans.
lated into the commodity OF cash IL the
form Of large collections he Is secure In
his position. II not, It may he jiEcrent.--
Rev. W. F.. Anderson, Methodist. New
York city.
REsURGAAf--On the last day tho bodice
Of the Just shall rise In glory. all their hu.
man defects healed. every blemish brushed
away. and in the bloom OF perpetual youth
This glory shall DO IN strict proportion tc
the holiness which adorns the fast. The
body she'll be material forever, though an.
lowed with properties which naturally
only ,helong to the enirit- Rev Father