The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-22

Purpose in Life.-Haye a purpose.
Don't drift. All other things being
equal. the young man who has a firm
purpose to be the best and do the best
will come out ahead in the long run
Rev. DIR. Gumbart, Baptist, Boston,
Mass.
Money VIII Save Souls.-Money has
an evangelizing power in the hands OF
Christians as surely as ii has COM
mercial value. Money must be laid at
the feet of Jesus Christ for the saliva
tion of a world-Rev. w. q. Partridge,
Baptist, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Value Of the Church.-Half the value
of the country church is its special
value. 1t is where the families of the
countryside meet and shake hands and
compare notes. l used to like to see
them assemble on foot, on horseback
and in lumber wagons. The church
was a meeting house-the country club
house.-Rev. NJ. w. Reed, Independent,
Denver, Colo.
The Song of Songs.-I raise my voice
here to thank God for the song Of songs
that teaches us that all the allurements
of courts, all the wealth of the world,
are nothing compared with sweet,
homely love.-Rev. Lyman Abbott, Con-
gregationalist, Brooklyn, n. Y.
The Labor Problem.-There will be no
relief from growing poverty and dis
tress until millions now shut away get
back to the soil and become producers.
The solution Of the labor problem lies at
the end of this road.-Rev. A. ]. Wells.
Unitarian, San Francisco, Cal.
Fighting Against Infidelty.-All true
Christians are one in feelings, one in
purpose and plans, and one In desires,
and present a solid bulwark of resist
ance when the doctrine OF redemption
is assailed by an inidel battery. Rev.
Edward McHugh, Methodist, Clncin-
natl, Ohio.
Then and Now.-Jesus is more real
and greater parsonage in the nineteenth
century than he was in the first In
the first he was rejected, despised, cru
Gifted. In the nineteenth he is revered
accepted, crowned.-Rev. ]. +. Carson
Presbyterian, Brooklyn, y. Y.
Heaven.-The real heaven Is n state
and not place. The heavenly char
acter conditions the heavenly inherit
ance. Love to God and love to men are
the essential elements of this character
Earth is hell below without this love
and heaven would also be hell If i
were wanting.-Bishop Fallows, Epis
copalian, Chicago, Ill.
The God Idea.-The god idea aros,
among the Hebrews, grew among th'
Israeltes and developed in greate
grandeur among the Jews. 1t passed
through all the stages of family god
tribal god, a national god, a God great
er than all the gods, until it evolved int
the conception of God who is the uni
versal Lord.-Rabbi ]. l.. Levy, He
brew, Philadelphia, Pa.
Gods Message.-The Bible contain
the promise of it's own entire solution
and explanation. The message of til
master Is that we shall seek first tn
kingdom of God and his righteousness
; and then all these things-understa
ing, knowledge, apprehension, apprecia
J ton of the divine-will be added unit
us.-Willlam j. Cozens, Salvationis
Boston, Mass.
Preaching go into the world an
preach the Gospel to every people is
command that has been delivered to III
and the pastors great duty is to carr
/ out that command. Let him carry tina
II Gospel to his own people, in stralgh
= forward, sincere and honest way, an
:. fit them for its still broader dissemini
e tion-Rev. L. B. Meyer, Evangelis
l. New York City.
10 The Religion of Christ.-Christian
lie is the religion of Christ, founded /
u him and based upon the teachings give
he by him and his inspired follower
Is These teachings make plain his clai
l. to be divine-the God man-and declal
'e nnequivocally that salvation is obtaint
u through his sacrifice of himself for Il
a sins of the world.-Rev. Roderick Teri
" Reformed, New York City.