The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned FEom the Teachings
of All Denominations.


Christ as he went about doing good
DR.. Stephen A. Northrop. Baptist, Kan
sas City.
Good and Bad.
The church divides men into good and |
bad, holy and sinful.-Rev. w. d. |
Williams, Episcopalian, New York |
City.
What the Bible Teaches.
The Bible teaches us that between |
God, who is the Spirit, and man, who |
is spiritual, there is community Of life. |
Rev. j F. Carson, Presbyterian,
Brooklyn.
On the sand.
In doing business for eternity, oh,
men, be prompt! Looking to some con
venient season, - some other time in the
indefinite future you build on the sand
Rev. Frank G. TyIrell, Christian
Church, St. Louis.
Seek Good Habits.
Seek for good habits as mariner
seeks for the true channel, as an invalid
seeks for health, as an industrious man
seeks for self support, as God seeks for
the lost soul. ul.-Rev. James A NJ
Crouch, Baptist St. Louis.
Gods Leadings.
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. Rev. Theodore l.. Guy
Ter, Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
Cure For SocInI Ills.
True religion is cure for all social
1 TI1c Tn frY1a haI hox a
erty, equality and fraternity, and every
other blessing which the human heart
needs and which our weary world re-
quires-Rev. DR.. Macarthur, Baptist.
| New York.
The Religion That Lives.
Religion is not something outside and
independent of men and women Re
iigion will grow only as men and WON
en- grow. Religion in its highest devel-
opment is that zeal for the general good
that makes sacrifice joyous.-Rev. Ien-
kins Lloyd Jones, Unitarian, Chicago.
Inner and Outward.
The differences between Christianity
and all other isms or cults is that it
aims to renew within and change the
inner life rather than the outward,
leaving the outward for the develop
ment of the inward spirit. MIR
Rollins, CongregatiOaalist, San Ber
nardino Cal
True Church CHnnOt DE.
Empires and kingdoms have had an
end, leaving only fallen ruins and bro
ken columns, mocking at man S boasting
of strength. But the city of God still
stands. The church planted il the heart
) of Noah outIives the very food. DIR
William w. c. Coleman, Methodist
KANSAS City.
Criticism RnG ChriKtfanfty.
Criticism has only vindicated ana
strengthened the Bible and given the
church more power. The progress an6
; destiny of Christianity were never 50
triumphant, and infidelity was never
so weak. The eastern sky is gilded with
,, the glory of the kings chariot.-D-
/, Cortland Myers, Baptist, Brooklyn.
r Readiness to Die.
! The things that seem of utmost i'm
. partance shrink intOinsignifcance whea
one is dying. The thing than is to hs
ready to meet thy God. Get ready,
, | friend. get ready. st is thy God thou
must meet some day alone IN the great
} universe. Before that hour all hours
= are as nothing. -Rev. Mr.. Fishex
3 Methodist, San Bernardino, Cal.
New Ceutnry's Glorious Dawn.
+ The eastern sky is being gilded by
] tie dawning of the new century, the
+ darkness is fleeing and the last stars of
l night are spelling out the word "Vic-
G tory" Pessimism and despair belong
u ;,,G l. Ill -
mEst face the sunrise and listen for the
morning lark and not the owl or the
whippoorwill. - DIR. Cortland Myers,
Baptist, Broo Ayn
Faith and Relieving.
Faith exercised is believing, and,
{ though results to human riew seem i'm
possible, yet with God all things are
possible. Belief includes action of obedi-
, ence. trusting all results with God
The commands of God to be holy, "be
perfect. P" to love him with all the heart
are just as binding upon his followers
as any portion of the decalogne. Rev
? A. Q. Morehouse, Methodist, New York
Heroes of the Church.
The saints are the heroes of our race.
: the highest type of manliness, the
1 haulpIOuA OI CIVILIZATION ana IalGn anQ
the models of Christian virtue The
world has leaders in all enterprises and
! the church has its heroes. They are the
, men who willingly manifest their faith
in God in laying down their lives for
l him by ignominious deaths. = Rev
: Charles McFadden, Catholic. Philadel-
i phia.
3 EarneSfness In Religion.
! The very nature of religion demands
! earnestness. 1t deals with those ques-
tions which center around the future
life and calls from sin unto God. More
t over, it calls to a specific duty in refer
| ence to fellow man. It renuires a sEmna-