The Winslow mail., 1897-05-29

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Purpose in Life.-Have purpose.
Don't drift. All other things being
equal, the young man who has a firm
purpose to be the best and do the best
will come out ahead in the long rum
Rev. DR.. Gumbart, Baptist, Boston,
Mass.
Money Will Save Souls.-Money has
an evangelizing power in the hands of
Christians as surely as it has a COM
mercial value. Money must be laid at
the feet of Jesus Christ for the saliva
tion of a world.-Rev. w. G. Partridge,
Baptist, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Value Of the Church.-Half the value
of the country church is it's special
value. 1t is where the families of the
countryside meet and shake hands and
compare notes. l used to like to see
them assemble on foot, on horseback
and in lumber wagons. The church
was a meeting house-the country club
house.-Rev. NJ. W. Reed, Independent,
Denver, Colo.
The Song of Songs.-I raise my voice
here to thank God for the song of songs
that teaches us that all the allurements
of courts, all the wealth Of the world.
are nothing compared with sweet,
homely love.-Rey. Lyman Abbott, Con-
gregationalist, Brooklyn, n. Y.
The Labor Problem.-There will be no
relief from growing poverty and dis
! treSs until millions now shut away get
back to the soil and become producers.
The solution of the labor problem lies at
the end of this road.-Rev. A. J. Wells,
Unitarian, San Francisco, Cal.
Fighting Against Infdelity.-All true
Christians are one in feelings, one in
purpose and plans, and one in desires,
and present solid bulwark of resist
ance when the doctrine of redemption
is assailed by an infdel battery. Rev.
Edward McHugh, Methodist, Cincin-
natl, Ohio.
| Then and NOw.-Jesus is more real
and greater parsonage in the nineteenth
century than he was in the first. In
! the first he was rejected, despised, cru
! cited. In the nineteenth he is revered,
accepted, crowned.-Rev. ]. +. Carson,
Presbyterian, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Heaven-The real heaven is a state
and not a place. The heavenly char
acter conditions the heavenly inherit
ance. Love to God and love to men are
| the essential elements of this character
Earth is a hell below without this love,
and heaven would also be a hell if it
were wanting.-Bishop Fallows, Epis-
copalian, Chicago, Ill.
The God Idea.-The god idea arose
among the Hebrews, grew among the
[sraelites and developed in greater
grandeur among the Jews. 1t passed
through all the stages of a family god,
L tribal god, national god God great
er than all the gods, until it evolved into
the conception of God who is the uni
versal Lord.-Rabbi J. L. Levy, He
brew, Philadelphia, Pa.
Gods Message-Fhe Bible contains
the promise of it's own entire solution
and explanation The message of the
master is that we shall seek first the
kingdom Of God and his Righteousness,
and then all these things-understan
ing, knowledge, apprehension, apprecia-
ton of the divine-will be added unto
us.-William J. CoZens, Salvationist,
Boston, Mass.
Preaching.-To go into the world and
preach the Gospel to every people is a
command that has been delivered to us,
and the pastors great duty is to carry
out that command. Let him carry that
Gospel to his own people, in a straight
forward, sincere and honest way, and
fit them for it's still broader dissemina-
tion.-Rev. f. B. Meyer, Evangelist,
New York City.
The Religion of Christianity
is the religion Of Christ, founded by
him and based upon the teachings given
by him and his inspired followers.
These teachings make plain his claim
to be divine-the God man-and declare
lnequivocally that salvation is obtained
through his sacrifice Of himself for the
sins Of the world.-Rev. ROderick Terry,
Reformed, New York City.