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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems of Truth Cleaned From the Teach
 ings of All Denominations.


 Gems of Truth GIeaned From the Teach ings of All Denominations. Woman is the mainstay of the Chris tian church. Christianity opens to her every avenue to honor and usefulness. Bishop Fallows Reformed Episcopal, Chicago.
 4 Dignifed Faculty.
 The intellect is the dignifed faculty. It will not run, but insists on marching, keeping step in orderly process. Rev. Dr. Frank Crane, Methodist, Chicago. Liberal Religion.
 The world wants religion that shall satisfy all the needs of mans nature, nourish the mind, strengthen the will, warm and uplift the heart. Mrs. Celia Parker Woolley, Independent, Chicago.
 America's Servant Girls.
 God bless the servant girls of Amer ica, whose years are nothing but hard, bitter, hopeless drudgeries Born in an unknown home, to be buried ill an un- known graye.-Rev. F D. Talmage, Presbyterian, Chicago.
 Source of Beauty.
 Beauty comes from within. The fin est complexion is the result of health, not cosmetics. So one ought to seek God sway of living-breathe his pure air and drink ill his sunshine, eat pure food and have a care what we drink Rev. A, NJ. Haryuot, Christian Church, Cincinnati
 Law and Liberty.
 The law of God is not the arbitrary limitation of human. enjoyment by a despot who delights in blood, but is the benignant ordination of a gracious sovereign who gives always the largest liberty that is possible for creatures constituted like ourselves. .-Dr. T. s. Henson, Baptist, Chicago.
 Regeneration of the World.
 Neither by human law nor by divine law nor by unwritten law can the world be righted. Man cannot be hammered into the image of God. Society cannot be planed and chiseled into the kingdom of God. It is by God working ill the heart, life working from within or :, that the individual, that society, can ue reclaimed. --Dr. Lyman Abbott, Con- gregationalist, New York.
 Gonseerated Christians.
 4 double star is two stars so close to- getheF that their lights are blended, giving the appearance Of one star. The eonsecrated Christian lives so close to Christ that when the world locks upon him 1t sees Christ shining in him. Christians are representative agents of Christ in this lower kingdom, thorough ly equipped for duty Key. W. E. Du- gan, Stewart Memorial Church, San 1 Francisco
 Ine Uonsecrated Life.
 4 good many Christians dedicate their sefvice to their pastor and when he goes they go. When medicine stands in bottle, the good qualities go to the bottom, leaving worthless water at the top. To be useful it must be mixed. The conseorated life means that the good, noble purposes, resolutions, prom ises and God given abilities of my life 1 shall not lie dormant, but be so mingled with my thoughts and actions as to bring to the world the healing balm of Christ's atoning sacrifce.-Rev. W. E. l Dugan, Stewart Memorial Church, San Francisco.
 ChristIike Spirit.
 The same spirit which ought to be in 1 the church more than it is should be i'll politics, industry, ill everything where men band themselves together for the doing of any good thing. The devil is willing that the spirit of Christ should be in the churches if he could lock it up there and keep it out of the daily re- lations of life. Only where the spirit of Christ rules may men come together without strife ard avarice It may be said that unselfishness is not practical ill the business world, but Christ was eminently practical, and his life was l the model of unselfshness. Rev. Dr. W. E. Barten, Congregationalist, Boston.
 Religion of the Future.
 The religion of the future must lead and inspire men. It must offer to all classes and nations the loftier ideals of true godliness and justice, one which will commend itself to head, hand and heart, and one that will cement all classes of men together, teaching them that they are children of one and the same Father. It will not be a thing of dead forms and ceremonials, but pow CT inspiring men with the grandest hopes for the life that now is and of that which IS to come. By it the broth erhood of man will become areality and the fatherhood of God a sublime thought, lifting men up to noble pur. pose and Christlike life. Rev Dr. liar. court, Methodist. Philadelphia.
 The Christian Faith.
 It is thought that the Christian faith will be displaced-will be outgrown. Many of it's forms have been, its sys. tems, it's defnable theology But be- cause its ethical ideals are the highest the spirit and essence of Christianity will abide. Its history is history of extraordinary expansion. It has shown the power of adapting itself to the most diverse forms of thought, and it will go on slonghing the ideas associated with l it in days of darkness and superstition