Pleasantville weekly press., 1897-06-30

that kind Of trusting nowadays. Rev.
Dwight L Moody, Revivalist, in New
York.
Athletic Sports.
It is not bad sign Of the times that
athletic sports are being entered upon
with great enthusiasm. A strong brain
must, as rule, have for its accompani-
ment a strong body. Rev. Johnston
Meyers. Baptist, Chicago.
Sensational Religion.
Some people wickedly use religion to
attain that pleasure of excitement cor
responding to that coming from the use
of alcoholic liquors and narcotics =
Rev. David Starr Jordan, President of
Stanford University, California.
The Cretan AFFAIR.
When the future historian sits down
to write the story of the nineteenth CEN
tury, his pen will have nothing blacker
to record than the affair of Crete and
the powers Rev. Thomas B. Gregory,
Church of the Redeemer, Chicago
Artificial Aims.
Men are trying to make an aim for
their lives by creating an artificial pur-
pose for their existence. claim among
such artificial purposes the getting of
money, power, influence, rank, station.
fame-Rabbi Joseph Silverman, New
York.
The Most Charitable Men.
/ find that the most charitable men in
their Judgment of men are physicians
and lawyers. The more practice they
have, the more excuses and justification
they have for irregularities in human
conduct. Rev. Myron Reed, Broadway
Tabernacle, Denver.
Working ON Sunday.
Why are the cars rushing back and
forth on the Sabbath? Because there are
men who covet the almighty dollar, and
to obtain it men must work. Thousands
Of laboring men are working Sunday
after Sunday that some persons may
profit thereby. Rev. B. F. Leipsner,
Baptist, Philadelphia.
Brief Intervals.
Man is accustomed to brief intervals.
Not long the space between January's
snowdrifts and June's red berries, brief
the interval between the egg and the
eagles full fight. Scarcely score Of
years separate the infant of days from
the youth Of full stature. Rev. DR..
Hills, Central Music Hall, Chicago.
The Sabbath . Holiday,
Everybody wants the cars and eleva-
tors to run ON the Sabbath. The steam
ship cannot stop in midocean to keep
Sabbath. The vast majority of our peo-
pie prize their own liberty, and their
sense of justice will lead them to grant
the same to all. And that will bring to
an end all Sunday legislation except
such as applies to all holidays. Rev.
Thomas Utter, Unitarian, Denver.
A Freethinker,
Iwou1d put up no bars to the freest
human belief. would be freethinker
and have every man that. At the same
time would not have men neglect those
simple truths upon which the best life
is built, always has been, always will
be. It is not what we know, but the
kind Of men and women we are, that
makes life significant.-Rev. r. A.
Greene, Universalist. Springfield, Mass.
Tennyson's Great Poem.
"In Memoriam' is generally consid-
cred a gloomy poem, but is in reality
the most triumphant poem in the Eng
lish language. It has more deeply pene-
trated the mind Of our time than any
other. The value of it lies in its appeal
to the intuitions. It appeals to the
grand primary truths of our humanity.
to those first principles which are worth
more than all the creeds. Rev. A. J,
Wells, UnitarisA San Francisco.
Piety and Common Sense.
"Lord save me from a pious fool"
said Daniel O'Connell. Many persons,
either through ignorance or malice, con-
found Stiffness with sanctity. Many men
who claim to be learned don t know the
difference between night and day. They
don't know, or they don It want to know,
the difference between fool and q
saint. The really pious man is the very
highest perfection of the really sensible
man.-Rev. Father Daily Of Pensacola,
at New Orleans,
Husband and Wife,
The subsection of wife to husband is
not the one of an inferior to superior
but is the privileged relation of the
weaker to the stronger expressed in
terms Of endearing and enduring affec-
tion. In every true marriage the wife
submits to that husband, who is her
lover, not her master, because her heart
has found in him interest Husbands
are commanded to love their wives and
to refrain from all bitterness of speech.
Love uttering wish speaks music to
love listening. Husbands and wives can
be truly happy only when in love-
Rev. DR.. Lee, Presbyterian, Cincinnati.