The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-08-31
Laughter.

York.
Laughter.
Amid our sorrows and perplexities
and cares we have the safety valve Of
laughter to relieve the awful pressure
that is bursting the brain and straining
at the nerves. Rev. Frank De Witt
Talmage, Presbyterian, Pittsburg.
No "Blue Blood" Claims.
As Americans we boast little Of "blue
blood" Of lords or peers. Every man is
supposed to hew his own way and il
necessary tunnel through mountain in
order to gain his point and at last gain
the day. Rev. s. A. Northrup, Bap-
fist, Kansas City.
Parlor Dancing.
Parlor dancing opens the door Of
temptation to thousands Of boys and
girls. The tendency Of the private dance
Is toward the public hall, as he who be-
gins with the social glass ofttimes lands
in the gutter. Rev. ]. O. Wilson, Epis-
copal. New York.
Preachers Are Men.
Preachers are men like other men.
They want to be judged like other men
and stand on their feet like other men.
Perish my utterances if ever seek to
hide behind the cloth of the ministry
Rev. G. H. Jones, McFerran Memorial
Church, Louisville.
Learning and Wisdom.
- Learning is the acquisition Of great
quantity Of miscellaneous matter. Wis
dom is capacity, power, character, use
Of yourself, and comes with the knowl-
edge of that which is invisible and
eternal.-Rev. Lyman Abbott, CoDgre-
gationalist. Brooklyn.
He'll and Hades.
regard 1t as great misfortune that
the word hell, which has in the COM
mon mind the meaning Of the place Of
final torment, was used instead of the
word "hades" in the Presbyterian
oreed.-Rev. Henry g. MoCook, Pres
bytsrian, Philadelphia.
Beauty Of Two Kingdoms.
Out of all the beauty of the growing
mineral Ringdom the softer beauty
comes, the sweeter beauty comes, more
delicate, more sensitive, more aesthetic,
more spiritual almost of the growing
vegetable kingdom. David H.
Greer, Episcopal, New York, in st.
Louis.
Are to BE Pitied.
There are men who seem to be con-
tent with low, animal life. They dig
and delve and never lift their eyes to
the heavens above them or project
thought beyond things earthly and
evanescent. They are to be pitied rather
than blamed.-Rev. +. @. Tyrrell,
Methodist, st. Louis.
The Mystery Of Force.
What is true of matter, which we see
and handle. is true Of that unseen thing
which inhabits matter, force. It cannot
be destroyed; it is never lost. 1t may be
active in the waterfall or the sunbeam,
or it may be dormant in the coal mine
or the ice, but 1t is always present; it
is never lost. Rev. r. s. Sohenok, Re-
formed Collegiate Church. New York.
The Value of Dollar.
Only the man who does the work Of
Abraham Is entitled to his name and
fame. That a few families in New
York have retained their wealth fer
over 100 years shows that the corpuscles
of acquisitiveness are still alive in their
blood. To know how to keep fortune
one must know the value Of dollar
five hours of sweat.-Rev. John R.
Paxton, Presbyterian, New York.
Bad Books.
The book you cried over before you
went to bed last night was novel, and
the book you laid down before coming
to church was novel, and ten out Of
ten books you take away on your vaca-
ton with you will be novels. But not
all novels are enrolling; not many are.
Perhaps 90 out Of 100 are baleful, an
outrage on decency and common sense.
Rev. F. M. Goodohild, Baptist. New
York.
Thomas Paine.
4AOIuuo uluo " vac U uCAot. 11o Uo-
lieved in one God, and he hoped for
happiness beyond this life. He was a
man of noble parts and champion of
reform. His denial Of the Bible was
probably more q mistake than sin and
was evidently due to the fact that he
his studies to the letter Of the
Scriptures and took the symbols for the
things signified. He had not learned Of
that internal sense Of ineffable beauty |
which is yelled in ancient allegory.
Rev. J. S. David. Swedenborg Society,
San Francisco,
The Swing Of the Pendulum.
Doubtless much Of the carelessness
and indifference Of the later part of
his century is reaction from Che stern
ouritanism of the earlier part Of the
century. and that strong, self sacri.
Icing type Of religion was the swinging
# the pendulum away from the coarse,
,ross, hilarious, vicious skeptioism Of
he latter part Of the eighteenth CEN
ury. Thus from age to age the PEN
ulum Of human thought swings to and
70, and it is not surprising If. with
ach reaction and change, the finite
lind should swing too far To left or