The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-24
RELIGIOUS l2E1p
turn US inside out.-Rev. DR.. Bigelow, Con.
gregationalist, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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ST1ORTCOMINGS--We can not expect a
perfect body or perfect church: Christ
alone is the only sinless one and the whole
must not be Judged by the failings and
shortcomings of some. The poisoned ar
rows of an unbeliever do not have the eff
feet on the truth OF religion that does the
doub,ings of u skeptic, The truth of Jesus
remains the same. but you, with your own
doubling. unconvinced by your own logic
may blight tho faith of hundreds. --Bshop
William Walker, Episcopalian, Buffalo,
n. Y.
MATERIALISM-The materialist de-
clares the soul to be like the harmony OF
the harp. When the strings OF tho harp
arc broken the harmony forever ceases.
We affirm that the soul is like the harper
when the harper is broken the harper sur
wives. The red Indian dreamed that in the
happy hunting grounds his faithful dog
would bear him company. Better be a
ccpper-colored son of the forest. believing
dog immortal like a man, than a mate
rialist with creed of clay, believing that
a man dies and is buried like dog.--Rev
G. III. Gulette. Methodist. Cincinnati, Ohio
CHILDREN OF THE PAST-The present
is a child of the past. This Nation of ours
"a free and happy peoples such because
Va many piOoh9 DdttltS, vi udyS OF unTe-
Quilted toll. but earnest endeavor, of many
sacrifices on the altar Of liberty. We are
individually by no means an accident--the
life we live today was largely fashioned in
the passive feel these arms about, hear
their voices and act in harmony. The pres
ent could not be different unless we had
TORN loose from the past, and this can only
be done by divine help.-Rev. c. l.. Keller.
Lutheran. Akron. Ohio.
UNIVERSAL RELIGIoN-The church ia
not doing its work when half the vople
never go near the church or care ANYTHING
ABOUT 1t. Christianity was given to the
world to be universal religion. 1t can
become universal only by being accepted
py all She people In so-called Christian
countries at the same time that It is being
carried to those nations which now are to-
tally ignorant of it. II 1t is not accented
by all the people there must be something
wrong either with Christianity itself or
with those who do profess to accept it
Rev. A. w. Gross, Universalist. Boston
Mass
sIN-Sin lies hidden In the heart. the
source and spring of all our Ills. Sin ia
me 'Deliiah that sings the Nazarite asleep
ana delivers up the strength of God into
me hands OF the uncircumcised." Sin.
WIN winning smiles and honeyed flattery
stands in the door to offer the sacred rites
OF hospitality, and when suspicion sleeps
tremendously pierces our temple with n
nail. Sin is the fair siren, who. seated
on a rock by the deadly pool, Smiles to
deceive. sings to lure, kisses to betray and
iiinss her arm around our neck to leap
win us into perdition. REV. ]. II. Mont
gomery, Presbyterian, Cincinnati. Ohio
The HEART-The heart is the workshop
OF the lie. Every act of the hand becomes
moral because the heart stamps that ACT
with motives. The heart determines the
moral character of all you consciously do.
and you do right only when your heart ia
right IN the particular act. The heart must
be Eept: 1t won't keep itself. II must be
presided over hy the WILL commanded, ord
cred. controlled. If one leaves IL to fol-
low impulse and moods 1t will deteriorate
IN itself and contaminate the very citadel
it dwells in. Keep it as you keep garden.
by destroying the weeds and fostering the
good seed.-Rev. J. II HERMAN, Baptist
Cleveland, Ohio.
CONSC1ENCE-Consc Is the grand
cur of man. It lifts him UP above the Wis
ible and enlarges in him the image AMI the
likeness OF God. Conscience makes US true
men individually and collectively. Coasci-
ence constitutes among nations civilization.
Today as In past ages of the history of
well as individuals is conscience. Consci-
ence gives peace and security and social
happiness. Conscience guards the family;
conscience makes of each one a rational
creature; conscience, and conscience only,
will open to us the portals OF the Skies
Archbishop Ireland, Roman Catholic. st.
Paul, MINI.
PILLARS OF FAITH-7'he Christ above
us and the Christ within us are the two
thoughts the Scriptures ever impress upon
Us. Christ revvifies those whose natures
are dead by sin by putting new life in
them, and through the individual life the
social world takes on new life. as we see
from the state of the nations who have
right to be called Christian. Now all this
was set before men in order that life and
Immortality might not hereby be an item
in creed, but principle IN life. For
this reason His birth, His advent into this
life and His resurrection. His advent into
the other life constitutes the two pillars
upon which our faith resis.-Rev. A. T.
Taylor, Presbyterian, Philadelphia, Pa.
BuSINESS--Jesus had a standard which
has become the measure OF business ethics.
He was business man in tho highest sense
and everything He did Vas accomplished in
the light Of the highest business morality.
When He sent out His disciples 10 propa-
gate bis cause He gave careful instructions
about using their common sense and taught
them how 10 regard the place Of money in
their mission The church needs the strong
and earnest personality of the converted
business man 10 advance its ideas and OK
tend the practical teachings OF Christ. 1t
is in need Of the business method in doing
itg worii.--Rev, Vim RAIDER, Congregation
alist. San francisco, Cal,
HELL-1f the doctrine OF an eternal hell
is true and the only way OF escape is the
condition laid down by the official state
ment of orthodoxy, then there is reason Tor
thu greatest alarm. for the future means
tho everlasting separation Of parents and
the violation of the hottest senfi-
ments Of the humai heart It :neans that
those noble men and women who have iived
lives of goodness. truth and honor. but VINO
have never openly professed Christ are ~
he'll forever: It means that some OF tne
greatnst scholars and most exalted thar-