The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-07

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| IN Christ. and, inssmuch as this righteous.
nets 10 better than q boat in storm or
the promise Of q parent to O child, SO arc
we more assured Of its power to save
Rev. J. Weidman. Presbyterian. Philadsl-
phia, IA.
GODS OF GOLD.--The little idols OF gold
are not all in the Klondlkc. There aye
thousands Of them kissed today by men
who do not cross the threshold OF
Christian church. There are the gods OF
food, until other Esaus sell their birth
right. There are gods OF clothes. until
men make monkeys OF themselves Rev.
Cortlandt Myers, Baptist. Brooklyn, N. Y.
FRED SPEECH.--No civil power upon
earth has the right to interfere with the
commissioners Of the King OF nations Ia
the discharge OF their embassage. 1he
ordinance Of the city of Boston forbiddtng
the free public preaching OF the gospel
without a permit from the mayor is in d.
rect contravention OF this high commits
slon.-Rev. J. NJ. Foster, Independent,
Boston, Mass
cHuRCHLEss RELIGION.--Is religion
capable OF being torn In parts? Can you
add together the school, with its improved
discipline, the home. the concert, the art
gallery, the encyclopedia. the club. the
ments and have as result the church
without ever needing to go inside a house
OF worship? Rey. Edward f. Towle Uni
tartan, Boston, Mass
POWER.--Years ago Yankee looked on
Niagara and said What power is there
TO be utilized in some practical way!" The
world laughed. Today Buffalo, miles away
from Niagara, Is supplied wit 'nctric
lighting and power to run its cali the
falls and Rochester Is reaching Z. her
hands, asking for some Of the same power.
Rev. J. OBJ. Lowry, Baptist, Kansas
City, Mo.
sYMPATHY..-Mere emotional benevo-
lerce has no part in real sympathy. Some
people can weep over suffering and still
do nothing. If the Samaritan had sat down
and shed tears of sympathy and offered a
fervent prayer and exercised a tender hope
that Providence would somehow intercede,
we never should have heard Of him as
Chrst's idea Of a neghbor.-Rev. C. M.
Bowers, Baptist. Clinton, Mass.
PROSPERITY.-There are those who say
that material prosperity means religious
adversely, because they hold that the peo-
pie are religious only when in distress or
need, and that they easily dispense with
religion when things go we'll with them.
III This were true, II WOuiO make 1of ana
not against religion because a power that
stands in good stead when the ordinary
supports disappear has thereby proved Its
essential reality and unquestionab.e use
fulnsss.-Rabbi Gustav Gottheil, Hebrew.
New York City.
INCREASE IN CRIME.-For the past
three years there has been a growing cpl
demic CT crime, prostitution, suicides and
wrongs against property. This is peculiar
when it e seen that the tendency is not
towards taking life. There Is an honest
effort made to earn living. but under the
present economic system 1t is becoming
more and more impossible to do so. In
fact. people are gradually waking up 10
the realization that 1t is impossible to get
work except through influence.-Rev J. W.
Malcolm, Congresatonalist, Cleveland
Ohio.
SCBERNESS-Have you ever scanned
the face of friend who has returned to
you after long parting? He left YOU
perhaps calow young man. quickly re-
sponsive to all the glamour OF the world
pure hearted, and with the engaging en-
thusiasm Of youth upon him. He returns
after a score OF years. with the old voice
and laugh, yet the mood, gay or intense.
is not so lightly swayed; there is Sc
dateness that was not there before; he has
been face to face with serious things.--Rev
]. F.. Genung, Congregationalist. New York