Pleasantville weekly press., 1898-12-28
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teaching
of All Denominations.

Gems Cleaned From the. Teachings
of All Denominations.
How delicately balanced is the hu-
man hearth How slight push can tip
it into the abyss of woe.-Rev. DR..
Frank Crane, Methodist, Chicago
Mothers Prayers. = \
Great men are made by Christian
mothers watching and praying for them.
Gods promises do not fail.-Dr. @. E.
bowman, Episcopal, Atlanta.
Jesus Always Satisfies.
The satisfying power of Jesus Christ
has been tested under every conceivable
condition and has never failed.-Rev
DR.. Gumbart, Baptist. Boston.
Secret of Happiness.
The secret of happy life consists in
knowing how to accept inevitable re-
sponsibility as a privilege. Rev. Dr.
Frank Crane, Methodist, Chicago. -.
Christ's Help.
The sun Of Righteousness can pene-
trate the darkest cloud. If men want
help, they can have it from the conquer
ing Christ.-Rev. T. o. Beattie, Pres
byterian, Albuquerque, n. M.
Beauties of the Cross. /
The beauties of the cross stand out
more strongly in the silent virtues of
boastless life than beneath the artificial
| glamor of presumptuous egotism.
Edward McHugh, Methodist, Cincin-
natl. li1 So
Gods Wise Leadings. s.l..
The shepherd character of our God
ought to give us confidence in him at
all times, but especially in the trying
scenes of life. They are parts of Gods
wise leadings. Theodore L. Guy.
Ter, Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
| Enthusiasm For the Church.
| Once more has come an era when the
multitude has lost its enthusiasm for
| the church. No longer do themultitude
throng and crowd the church waiting
for the doors to open. Rev. N. d.
Hills, Independent, Chicago
Living Book.
To the Universalist church the Bible
is living book. The church honors it,
leans on it, draws from it, finds the way
to God by means of it, and uses it to
advance souls in the way of life. Rev
F...W. Whippen, Universalist, Scranton,
| Pa.
Greatness of q Nation.
A nation becomes great not so much
| by its commercial enterprise, its greed
| for gain or it's territorial expansion as
BY the sacrifices its people make, the
righteousness it's people exhibit.-Rev.
DR. George R. Van de Water, Episoopa
liam, New York.
Gods Care For Us.
Courage, my friends God has greater
things in store for u.s. It may be the
| prison now-adversity, sorrow, deferred
hope-but by and by the new name, the
white robe, the many mansions in the
city of the Great King. j. O.
Russell, Presbyterian. Camden. N I
Living the Gospel of Christ.
Some of us are willing to talk and
sing and write and fight about our re-
ligion-in fact, do most anything for-it
except live it, and yet it is the manner
of life becoming the gospel of Christ
that draweth men to the Crucified One.
Rev. George McGinnis, Baptist, Chi
cago.
Difficulties of the Christian.
Many Of the difficulties battling Chris
tiah progress today would not have ex-
listed had our fathers been more candid
in mind and remembered in wisdom
and tolerance the teaching of the text,
"Fpr every creature Of God is good. -
ReY. S. P. Cadman, Oongregationalist,
| New York.
God Equips Us For Success.
Every man is perfectly equipped for
everlasting success. God makes no mis-
tax ss in his creations. We are perfectly
equipped for success here and hereafter,
for God did not make souls for this
world only. He made them for his uni
verse.-Dr. John Paul Egbert, Presby-
terian, St. Paul.
The True Religion.
''Never will l enter into final peace
alone, but forever and ever and every
where Twill live and strive for the uni
versal redemption of every creature
throughout all the worlds" This is
true Christianity. This is the true re-
ligion. DR.. W. E. Copeland, Uni
tartan, Salem, Or.
Need of the Love of God.
"Whoso has this worlds goods and
seeth his brother have need and shutteth
up his bowels of compassion from him,
how dwelleth the love Of God in him?"
This is the most powerful way of de-
claring that the love of God does not
dwell in such one.-Dr. W. A. Rob
inson, Methodist, Cincinnati.
Genuine Love.
Genuine love makes anything posi-
BILE, and we must have pure, genuine
love for Christ if we are to enter heav-
en-. No book written in love ever died
and no book written in hate ever lived.
There must be spiritual lovefor Christ
in the hearts Of men.-Bishop D. A
Goodsell, Methodist, Chattanooga, Tenn
The Need of Love.
The man who loves God enough will
know exactly what is right and what is
wrong. Otherwise there is a sort Of
moral obtuseness, based on lack of love
and loyalty to God. Bishop Fl. @. Nor
rison, Methodist, Louisville.
Christ and Our Infirmities.
Christ is the physician of the nine
teenth century as well as of the first
He stands ready to bear our infirmities
and our sicknesses. His mission is espe-
cially to remove moral maladies. DIR
Stephen A. Northrop, Baptist, Kansas
City.
The Soul of God.
There is presence beating at the i'm
pulses of conscience beating through
the manifestations of nature It is not Of
stuff or stone. but is the soul of God,
And we can never find peace until it
enters in. Rev. A. M. Judy, Unitarian,
Davenport, La.
The Church's Mission.
The mission of the church is like that
of the north star to the mariner She
| guides, she directs Her ambition in
winning over to Christ the intellectual
world of tO1av is to make all the sci.