Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-28
Religious Thoughts.


 Mind is tho beginning of civilization, but tho ends and fruitago thereof aro of tho heart. Rev N. D. Hillis, Central Music Hall. Chicago
 Providence and Luck,
 The greatest men are quickest to ac- knowledge their debt to that Providence which fools call luck. Rev. Frank Crane. Methodist. Chicago
 Nobody Is Contented.
 One of the marked characteristics of those last days of the nineteenth cen tury is it's impatience, its rostlessness, its discontent -Rey. Frank L. Phalen, Gongregationalist Louisville.
 No Chance Events.
 What a sweet comfort the thought to the soul ill trouble that there arc no chance events ill this world. but that all arc the result of divine. watchful care. Row B. M Palmer. Presbyterian. New Orleans.
 Pulpit and Pew.
 There was never D time when tho preacher and tho people need more to distinguish the true Idea of preaching than at present. The pulpit and the pew need to get closer together. .-Rev. R. T. Matthews. Christian. Louisville
 Liberalism Not Dead Yet,
 Orthodoxy has insisted for 100 years that liberalism was dying in this coun- try. Our brethren should learn wisdom and hold the announcement until the obsequfes arc fully performed Rev. R. A. White, Universalist. Chicago
 What the Queen Expects.
 Queen Victoria is reported to have said res. i9tly t9 clergyman: T am looking for the personal return of my Lord. l should not be at all surprised if when am called to lay aside my crown it will be literally to lay it down at the feet of Jesus Christ. ''--Rev s. c. Palmer, Congregationallst St. Louis.
 Gratitude Ts Expected.
 Naturally men. in their dealings with their fellow men, look for gratitude and regard the lack of it US most serious defect. If this be true of tho dealings of man with man, how much more so must it be true of the dealings, if so we may say, of man with God!-Rey Ia ther C. Powers. Catholic. San Fran cisco.
 Flirting.
 lirting-this so called innocent pas time is most contemptibla It is bad enough in the case of Q woman. but heaven deliver us from the man who will so far forget his manhood as to practice the contemptible arts, tho idiotie oglings, the silly twadd1e, the L of ish throat rumblings and inane maneu- verings incident to irritation. Rev. s. I Lindsay, Presbyterian. St. Louis
 Enc Eace of Friend.
 Have you ever scanned the face of q friend who has returned to you after a long parting7 He left you. perhaps, a callow young man. quickly responsive to all tho glamour of the world, pure hearted, and with the engaging enthu- siasm of youth upon him. He returns after q score of years. with the old voice and laugh. yet the mood. gay or intense, is not so lightly swayed. thero is a sedateness that was not there be- fore; he has been face to face with seri- ous things You feel that fire has been there, and forging, and grim encounter with trials All this has invaded his rounded beauty perhaps but how much more your friend Is, after all, with what greater repose of confidence you can tie to him. There are fiber and sinew in his friendship now.-Rey. J. F. Ge- nung, Congregationalist in New York.
 Esau's Sacrifice.
 Today is not all Oh, tho folly of SAC riflcing the birthright running through many years and crowning them with glory for tho sake of gratifying tho de- siro of the passing momentl There are many i'll the world today who made thoir beds as they did because they did not consider how long they would have to lie upon them With their own hands they kindled the fire within their breasts because they did not remember that the flame they lighted Is the one that shall never be Quenched; hence the stress which the Bible lays upon faith, upon the great future There Is a future coming-a future with its glory, honor and immortality. Mortgage not that future Be not like Esau, who for one morsel of meat impoverished all his after years. s.--Rev. Dr. Webb, Secre- tary Evangelical Alliance
 The Coming Man.
 Some declare that tho stock is dying out; that the good old days were the best. Trey despair of the future, Ao oording to them, degeneracy is tho goal of humanity. This is wretched philos- ophy to teach the youth of any land, The man who adopts it must have Q high opinion of himself and Q small opinion of those who will como after him--his own children, for instance. A man ought to educate his family in the belief that his son ought oo be better man and fill nobler place in society than himself He ought to believe in progress Have hope for posterity. Man hood has not yet attained its full growth. Tn the long roll of the centuries there was man, even Jesus of Nazareth, and +1,x <,.oov,ix.ry aryrr fbarp ;sst t0 tQ fn-