The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-03-12

Generosity love TO receive Is nat.
ural; 10 love 10 give Is supernatural
Generosity is divine: selfishness Is sa-
tanic.-Rey. j. c. Jackson Jr., Congre-
gatlonallst, Columbus, Ohio
A Tonic for Pessimlsm.-The whose
work keeps them in close contact with
the weaknesses of people should read
Emerson and. Wordsworth and Brown
Ing and Walt Whitman. These mighty
optimists will act as n tonic on their re-
dneed confidence In humanity.-Rev.
DR.. W s. Grove. Unlversalist. New
York City.
Religion of the Architects.--<ot tenn
pies, but great libraries audltorlums
for the people, are now yoicing the re-
ligion Of the architects.-Rev.J enkin
Lloyd Jones, Independent, Chicago. Ill.
Responslbility.-God love and kind
ness surely increase our responsibility
to him, and responsibility of this kind
Is indeed sacred one.-Rev. DIR. VII.
son, Congregalionalist Council Bluffs.
Iowa
The Two Ways.-There are but two
ways dictated by conscience, and the
general trend of life must be one way
or the other. by the very conditions and
destlnles of moral force.--Rev. w. T.
Chase, Baptist, Philadelphia, Pa.
Old Creeds.-The forms of creeds
pass away. They get worn out. The
Ia oil Artf
woven by the true selfhood of Christian
manhood shall be In style forever
Rev. J. r. McNamee. Baptist, Chicago.
Ill.
Patriotlsm.-True patriotism begins
at nome. Those chapters of unseltish
service are the hardest which are near
est and plainest. and rigor of conscience
puts them first-Rey. DIR. NJ. w. Stryk-
er, Presbyterian, New York City.
Gods World.-People are coming TO
see that the world is Gods world. And
10 long as man sees that there is bet
Ter way than the one he Is treading he
will press forward to it.-Rev. Mrs,
Mary Whitney. Disciple, Boston, Mass,
Counting the Cost.-The world has
never made progress through the agen-
cy of the man who sits down to count
the cost. Ii may fail. but its failure
Will pave the way for successes to
coine-Dr. j. f. Roberts, Episcopallan.
Kansas city. Mo.
Death.-In view of all the dangers,
calamlles and diseases that bring
death and sorrow into the world, we
should be very solemn. Death is APP
pointed unto men. and every man
should continually remind himself of
this truth.-Rey. w. IL. Hanna. Chris
tlan. Carnegie, Pa.
Character Man decides the ques-
ton Of character. II God had made II
impossible 10 sin. there could have been
no character. Man at his best would
have been a machine. Neither virtue
nor heroism would have been possible.
DR.. ]. II. Westwood, Methodist, Phil
adelphla. Pa.
Gods Ways.-God's ways are not our
ways Strange are his methods of cd
ucatlng humanity. In this process even
the follles and superstitlons of men are
turned 10 n good purpose. Man learns
the truth by making mistakes.-Rev
+. Staff, Congregationalist Forestville,
Ill.
A IIeagen nywhere.-Heaven Is not
a local place beyond the stars. Heaven
is not place with four square walls,
with God on throne as personal be
Ing. God Is everywhere. and heaven
may be In every heart The kingdom
of God Is within you.-J. ]. Cornell, So
clety of Friends, Baltimore, Md
Enylronment.-The place makes the
people, and the people make the place.
Men are largely the product of environ
ment. We are all influenced by our
surroundings. The overcrowded tene-
ment houses are the hotbeds of moral
and physical disease.-Rey. w. q. Part
ridge, Baptist, Cincinnati, Ohio.