Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-07-14
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems of Truth Cleaned From the Teach
ings of All Denominations.
There is a great deal of religion in
simply keeping quiet. 1t is the best
thing for you to do, and at the same
time the hardest. Rev George H.
Hepworth, Congregationalist, New ;,
York.
One Use of Faith.
Faith is given to afford us large views
Of life, Of life in its entirety as it is,
and as it is to be when sin is no more.
DIR. Lee, Presbyterian, Cincinnati.
Our Real Heaven.
Heaven is in every human heart, and
we have only to call upon it to have it
around US in our daily walk and life
DR.. w. w. Landrum, Baptist, Atlanta
Claims OF brotherhood.
The sooner we recognize IN unseltsh-
ness the mighty claims of brotherhood
the more speedily will war, the mon
ster evil, depart forever from our land.
Rev DR.. Cushman, Providence.
A Picture of Love.
| Love is like a flower that blossoms on
the brink Of precipice. It's sweet fra
GRANGE may be waited to the skies or dis
sipated in the dismal abyss.-Rev.
George w. Peck Methodist, Buffalo.
Food For Boye.
A boy is made on what he is fed.
What his father and mother tell him
means more to him than books. If you
wish the boys to be brave, feed them on
brave stories.-Rev. Myron W. Reed,
Independent, Denver
When Property Is Good.
Prosperity is good, if God appoint it.
But when men snatch it with unclean
hands, selling their purity and ignoring
God that they may get it, it is with
ering curse.-Rev. F. T. Bayley, Con-
gregationalist, Denver
Loyal to Gods Commands.
We have powers and faculties that
are laid upon us as Gods commands,
and no man who does not use those
faculties in accordance with God COM
mands is loyal to d-Rev DR.. Fred
, erick A. Noble, Congregationalist, Chi
, cago our New Chivalry.
: A new chivalry is rising in these
: United States at the threshold of the
twentieth century First we achieved
| our own independence, then we freed
the slave, now we are Gberating Cuba,
and forever more we shall take a hand
r in emancipating the world-Rev. John
2 L. Scudder, Congregationalist. Jersey
= City.
False and True Humility.
t There is false humility which is
: but the superficial emotion of passing
t moment, but there is true humility
j which turns its face away from wrong
: and resolutely faces a better life, and it
9 is this true humility which gives wings
Q to our prayers whereby they mount to
J. the throne of God-Dr Hawkins,
. Methodist, Kansas City
q Avoid Procrastination.
u The value Of an hour depends on the
use we make of it. In this hour, or
these immediate coming days, dwells
y salvation for ourselves and others it we
70 so determine. God says today The
9 devil says, wait. We should be urged to
,. activity in this matter because to de.
81 lay will only please the devil.-Rev. e.
H. Lovett, Baptist, Chicago.
~ The War May Create a New Civilization
l. The conflict between America and
&c Spain will introduce a new era in the
= history of mankind in the western
n world. 1t will create new type o.
st manhood, new civilization, a new
r. Christianity for the people Of Cuba
and the army by which this revolution
is to be wrought is an army of the boy,
q. in blue Rev. ]. Q. A. Henry, Baptist
e. Chicago.
j, Let Our Influence Be Good.
IS Let the influence we now exert OF
GO our families at home, in the church, il
as the store or Office, in the world at large
r, be good. Then there will be good in
us fuence to endure when we are silent il
SO the grave Like the stone, we may lii
vs. quiescent at the bottom of the lake, blu
o. the ripples on the water shall sprea'
and widen till they reach that lake.
ry EXTREMIST verge.-Rev. DR.. George
de Presbyterian, Kansas City
ns An Ideal Man.
Ill The ideal man is the man of man
er passions, impulses, ambitions, but al
% under control of a central will. If 20
ne wish your engine to do good work, 20
To- must have plenty of coal in the graf
as and plenty of steam in the boiler. Blu
IS, you must be master of the steam, for
ne is omnipotent to do your will if right
OF directed and omnipotent to destroy 20
Id unless so directed. Rev George Z
gh Hepworth, Congregationalist. Ne,
York.