The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-08-30
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.



Eaton, Unitarian, New York.
Best For Adam.
II was not punishment but bless.
ing that Adam was shut out Of Eden,
shut out from the tree of life. shut out
from the immortality of sin.-Rev. O.
NJ. Cobern, Methodist, Denver.
Arc Never at Peace.
Culture and ignorance from time i'm
memorial have been at war. The one
elevates and emancipates, while the
other degrades and enthralls. Rev. G..
q. Houghton, Episcopal, Hoboken.
The birth of Religion.
Man gave to natures forces person
ality. The nature myth became the hero
myth and in u later development was
given moral significance. Thus reli-
gion was born.-Rev. DR.. Pratt, Univer-
salist, Cedar Rapids, la.
The Prize Ring.
The prize ring, where men pound the
lives out Of one another for the mastery,
Is but reflection Of the thought that
there is something in our natures that
admires the excessive development Of
life.-Rev. I. 8. Hopkins, Merritt's Ave-
nue. Church, Atlanta.
People Must Be Amused.
A certain amount Of amusement is
absolutely necessary to health and hap.
piness. It Ia the spice Of life. II gives
zest to labor. A constant grind Of unin-
terrupted toll will soon wear out both
mind and body.-Rev. De Witt M, Ben.
ham, Presbyterian, Pittsburg.
Intoxicated With Work.
Thousands Of men seem to get intoxi.
Gated with work, 80 that they cannot do
anything else. They spend their whole
lives getting ready to live and then,
when they are about ready, you hear Of
their sudden death.-Rev. Minot ],
Savage, Unitarian, New York.
New Light on the Trinity.
There are great many besides my.
self to whom the old medieval detini-
tions Of the Trinity are unsatisfactory,
archaic or insignifioant-to whom they
either mean nothing or they mean what
we do not believe. Rev. Lyman Alb
bolt, Congregationalist, Brooklyn.
woman's Best Service.
The best service, in my judgment,
possible to any woman, however richly
lowered, ia to do womanly things in q
womanly way, thus illustrating in her
life and character the loftiest type Of
womanhood. Rev DR.. Arthur Little Of
Dorchester, Mass, at Mt. Holyoke.
Our National Ailments.
The absence Of the note Of greatness
from the material progress, from the
current literature, from professional
success and from political action is ow-
ing chiefly to the conspicuous fact that
these interests and achievements are
not purified and unified in the service
Of the moral idea.-Rev. George A.
Gordon, Congregationalist, Boston.
Origin Of Law.
Slowly, doubtless, mans ideas of
right and wrong have been developed.
Slowly society found that il the lazy
and thriftless were permitted to rob the
children Of industry that theft diseour-
aged toll and would ruin the state. So
laws we're enacted, and "Thou shalt not
steal" became legal principle. Rev.
DR.. Hills, Central Music Hall, Chicago.
Questions Of Rents.
Questions Of rents and tenements, Of
hours and wages. are religious ques-
tions, having to do directly with the
spiritual welfare Of men. To expect
sound spiritual life while these matters
are under the regulation of greed and
competition and the devil is like ex-
pecting health Of body in house built
in a malarial swamp.-Rev. George
Hodges, CT nbridge Theological School,
Cambridge, Mass.
The World Sees Keenly.
The selfish manipulation is ever de-
fenseless. Though he operates with sab
tlety and becomes past master in
scheming to carry out his personal
plans, he finds that tho eye of the world
sees pretty keenly and clearly, and
though be has worked and fought be-
hind a shield which he thought OBJ
scured his real motives, that shield, aft
er all, has not been impenetrable.
Rev. Stephen H. Robin, Universalist,
Boston.
Solomon Was Wrong.
God never meant that life should be
vanity Of vanities. Twill not believe it,
you will not believe it and thousands
and hundreds Of thousands will not be-
lieve it Our own experience proves 1t
false Solomon was not the man to tes.
tify. He was not in the right condition.
If the book is the work Of Solomon's
old age, that is the best reason for not
believing it, Solomon the old was not
the Solomon who built the tenn pie. His
young life had been squandered away,
and the fresh fountains of his youth had
been changed to puddlea Rev. Robert
Collyer, Unitarian, New York.
Fortune Tellers.
It is impossible for me, an American
born citizen, to understand why the
American people have not opened their
eyes to the great evil which exists in
the midst Of our enlightened people in
our great cities. Isay evil. from whence
untold and almost Undesirable ruin
springs-that is, from those seven head.
ed devils Of fortune tellers and cup
tossers. Oh, if I could unfold with free
dom my experience in my priestly call
ing the untold ruin Of homes, the break
ing up of families, the separation Of
man and wife. the ruin Of daughters,
by the evil prophecies Of these wretched
beings who are called human, but are
the employees Of the devill To get o
living they throw tho brand Of fire
which ignites the human heart with
jealousy. Rev. Father Delaney, Cath
olio, New Orleans.