The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-12
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yourself at fault, - sometimes fear 20
may, even In the face OF the best intention
l and highest motives, arise from that pas
sive lefbarky into life that will forbi
it.--Rey. Or. Hanchor. Methodist, Kansa
City. Mo-
MEN FOR SALE. I'm very truth, ever
man, unless the divine life abides In hin
has his selfish price. The word tells Q
only one who could bear all temptation
outward and inward, Of the fiesh, Of the In
tcllect and OF the heart, and even he con
| tinually acknowledged that OF himself, o
| by his nature. inherited from man, he coult
| do nothing.--Rev John Goddard, Sweden
borgian. Cincinnati, Ohio.
| RICH AND POOR. Sometimes striker
are not justified, but at other times be-
licve they are. All rich men are not
Christians and II is Just as true today
| as in the time Of Christ that II IL hard
for a rich man to enter the kingdom OF
| heaven Rich men have the power to op-
! press, and to slay, and too often they use
| IL. II u man becomes money making
| machine, he viii. as the Scriptures say,
grind the face OF the poor.-Rev. John
| Stephens. Methodist San Francisco, Cal.
YOUNG MEN. Everything great in the
history OF tfe race pdb Dttu uOiit ny young
men Pascal and Sir Isaac Newton wrote
their greatest treatses before they were
20 years old. In music and art, too, there
has ever been accomplishment in youth .
II Is to be believed that the young men
OF the present generation Will hold on TO
all that they have won, and that they
VIII bequeath this to posterity - ov. John
cuekson, Unitarian, Boston. Mass.
THE FAMILY OF MANI is as true
Of tho whole family Of man as of the
church of Christ that they have community
OF Interests. oneness Of life and mutual In.
terdcpendenoc. We are under the law OF
solidarity. We rise or fall together. What
over affects the financial or moral or spir-
itual welfare of one liz felt by all II there
be distrust. the capitalist banks his money
and labor is unemployed thus capitalists,
laborera and the community all suffer-.
Rev. &. w. Mead. Presbyterian, New York
City
MANHOOD. No manhood can be truly
beautiful which is not gentle. Yet there is
tendency In many men toward nissan
thropy. They strive to harden themselves
against the worlds sorrows. They would
doaden the natural sensitivencss OF their
hearts. They think tenderness and senti-
mentalism unworthy OF a manly man. such
a hardening OF feeling is really the crush
ing In ones heart OF that which Is LIES
very radancy and glory. The most divine
thing in us ia loye.-Rev. ]. X. Miller,
Presbyterian, Philadelphia, Pa,
KINGS AND DESPoTS. Cars. emper,
ors. kings ex-cathedra ooclosiasticg are
living absurditios; Sultanism is a mon
sttpus insult TO God and an unutterahle
curse TO humanity. One head liz not big
enough and does not secrcte wisdom enough
10 control nation or church The preei-
dent of the United States is not ruler. but
a servant, When he ceases to be a servant
he will begin to be despot In the light
ot God who alone Is king and potentate
stopping TO wash human feet and SO be.
coming servant, the thrones, Kingdoms.
empires and dynasties built by man should
vanish forever from the face of the enrth
key + H. Morse, Baptist, New York
City.
DoGMAS AND DOCTRINES re-
NIXON noes not consist In q belief OF dog
mas or doctrines. In past ages much stress
mas been laid upon correct theolorlrnI
bnilel or what certain men formulated and
ch!ied correct. and these differed as widely
as mems minds aud circumstances differed
no uespolo spirit OF the old faiths was
very largely due to the old despuflc govern
meuts under which they were forced,
Creeds wore founded and modelled after The
type Of government existing at the time
ANA this la true OF all creeds. have M
hesltanoy In saying that no faith forged
IN any of the kingdoms of the old world
can permanently flourish here- excent n
pc adapted 20 the new surrourdlngs--Rev
Or Harcourt, Methodist Philadelphia. Pa,
ANGERS.--There are two dangers
whloh confront our country today. tho dan
ger OF the pharlsee aud the danger of lntI-
tuoiharlanism, The Bible called the pbar-
isee generation OF vipers, and eald that
uhloss they became converted the kingdom
OF heaven would be closed against them
Are there not those today who are oxter-
naiiy religious, yet internally strangers 10
'odY They grasp the outer things. tbe
secremonials and the snowy substance. bur
lose the great power that binds us TO God
Ihe danger OF latitudinarlansm Ia one ~
the great dangers to be met, We must 20
forth to help the church. The world Ia o,,r
parish, The misslon OF the church is m
save the fallen and those who have been
led by spiritual laxity to desert the church
ana nave thought only for themselves. =.
kev. W. S. Craft. Methodist, Davenport