El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-20
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
weak Points of Church and College

weak Points of Church and College.
One who loves and honors both the
church and the university may we'll be
disturbed when he sees them lowering
their ideals by way of concession to the
materialistio spirit of the age.-Rev.
Henry W. Pinkham, Baptist, Denver.
The Indestructible Word.
After all the assailants of the Bible
are dead their funeral sermons will be
preached from the book without one es-
sential passage omitted, from the first
of Genesis to the last of Revelation
Rev. E. R. Ollie. Methodist, San Fran
cisco.
Motherhood.
The greatest honor which God can
bestow upon woman is that of mother
hood. Some one has said, "God could
not attend to everything, SO he made
mothers. It would have been better
said, "God wanted helpers, SO he made
mothers. Rev. J. Knox Montgomery,
Presby terrain, Cincinnati.
National Suicide.
The nation that disregards its labor
element is like the man who draws the
keen razor across his own throat. Our
times are serious. No thoughtful stu
dent can regard the ominous discomfort
and the thunders of social unrest with
out trem milling for the future of his
country.-Rev. w. H Carwardine,
Methodist, Chicago.
Care Of the Body.
Let but one screw be loose on the en-
CINE, or one wheel be damaged under a
car, and the train leaps the track, goes
6nxxyr, tho no,
shrieks, groans, agony and death fol-
low. Should we then be less careful
with these wonderful machines, our
bodies?-Rev. E. R. McCauley, Luther
an, Cedar Rapids, Ia.
Evils of Sensational Literature.
One thing which think has helped
to eradicate from the minds of the
people generally the scriptural concep-
ton of sin and to prepare the criminally
disposed for the commission of all sorts
of crime is the sensational literature Of
the day, whether in the form of the
low class novel or the daily newspaper
Rev. j. W. Roberts, Trinity Church,
Atlanta.
Balm In Gilead.
There are wealthy men who give 81,
900, 600 with just as pure a motive as
you had when you gave your morning
Offering, even purer, it may be, since
theirs was deliberate and planned and
yours may not have been. There are
high minded public officials who would
no more abuse public privilege than you
would abuse personal privilege.
Q. B. McAfee, Presbyterian, st. Louis.
The Lower Animals In Heaven.
The multitudinous forms of animal
and vegetable creation will exist in the
next world. One of the greatest rea-
soners the world has ever seen, the i'm
mortal Bishop Butler, has admitted as
much in his masterpiece Of logic, the
Analogy. And in the glimpse Of heav-
en- which the Apocalypse reveals do we
not read Of the river Of waters and the
tree Of life and the four beasts or living
creatures as well as of the angels and
the redeemed? Go learn from this the
lesson of kindness to all Gods crea-
lures. Very Rev. Dean Duffy, Episco-
pal, Kansas City.
Turning Point.
A subtle and important turning point
in life is marriage. Here is an innocent
chap who marries the wrong woman,
and she drags him down into the mire.
Here is an uncouth fellow who marries
the right girl, md she lifts him up.
One man dies in the electric chair be-
cause he never knew mothers love,
and another goes through the gates,
saved by the power of wise's affec-
ton. Out in life's stream, with the
current dead against him and the wind
of adversely blowing in his face. many
little pettiooat has been the ugboat
that brought the husband safely into
port.-Rev. ]. H. Smythe, Methodist,
OF Philadelphia, at Washington,
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