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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
OF All DenOmi natiOns.

| Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
| OF All Determinations.
There are difficulties in Christianity,
but there are more without Christianity.
DIR. Frank Crane. Methodist. Chicago.
| Prayers.
Prayers are the tales of the heart,
and we should always try to pray right.
Rev. DR.. A. B. Simpson. Christian
Alliance. New York.
Loss In Prayer.
We lose much prayer for the want of
two things-specifcnes of object AMI
intensity of desire.-Rev. William
Ward West. Baptist. Pittsburg
Initiating Christ.
To initiate Christ means that we
must be pure. loving, long suffering,
helpful and merciful Rev Paul c
Curnick. Methodist, Cincinnati
Faith.
Faith is not only expectation There
! is a faith that counts the thing that il
asks for as having been given. Rev
DR.. r. A. Torrey. Congregational:a1
Chicago.
Remind us not of the love of yester
day, for the saddest part of yesterday
is its pleasure that has departed. but
to be joy, love must be born again
| each day.-Dr. Frank Crane Methodist
| Chicago.
Gods Plan For Men.
Whether triumphant in the struggle
of life through Divine grace or down
in the sloughs of iniquity, for all men
God has a wonderful and benefcent
plan.-Rev Dr. E. G. Thurber. Pres
byterian. Paris.
SaIvation's Key.
The key to salvation is the human
will. Many people ask to which faculty
shall we appeal-to head or heart The
answer is we should appeal to the whole
man.-Bishop s. NJ Merrill. Methodist.
Lake Bluff, Ills.
Power of Chrfst's Grace.
The world darkens the soul like ink
poured into a cup Of clear water, but
the grace of Christ brightens it. as
quicksilver will the cup Of inky water
when poured into it.-Rev. DR.. E. P
Davis, Presbyterian, Montgomery, Ala
Lies Best Time.
You frequently hear men say youth
is the best of life. That is not the
teaching of the Bible. The further the
better is its great truth. Neither youth
nor manhood is the best time THE
best is yet to be. Rev. Dwight L.
Moody. Evangelist, New York
Value of Rectitude.
It is better to be right than sorry,
better to walk on hard rock than on
quicksand, better to hold yourself be-
yond the price of purchase than to sell
yourself for the largest sum that was
ever paid for a soul-Rev. George II.
Hepworth, Congregationalist, New
York.
Churches and Young Men.
Give the young men chance in the
councils and hard work of the church.
They will crowd the churches It is
not so much what the churches can do
for the young men. but how much the
young men can do for the churches. -
Rev. J. II. O. Smith, Christian Church,
Chicago.
Cultures True Ideal.
The true ideal of culture is the crea-
tive ideal It aims at a new manhood.
It is thoroughly regenerative in its re-
suits to the receiver. It emancipates
and enfranchises manhood. It gives vi
tally to a mans perception, imagina-
tion and judgment. Rev. M. w. Ever
hart. Methodist, Carlinville, Ills.
Eye of Faith.
What the world needs is the eye of
faith to see through the fog and smoke
and dust and shadows of this world of
sin and behold the other world of light
and glory and Immortality, where "the
King in his beauty liveth and the king
dom Of God abideth forever. bishop
Wesley John Gaines. Methodist. At
lanta.
Lies Greatest Blessing.
The greatest blessing in life is that
in every experience within the material
event is great spiritual truth, upon
which your soul should dwell. If it
does, then the great purpose of life will
be fulfilled, and your character will
grow as God would have it grow. If
you have the spiritual possession, you
have the highest, the noblest and most
enduring thing that God can give you.
Rev. DR.. W. Robson. hoffman. Chi
cago.
Rational Optimism.
Christianity is rational optimism.
It is faith seeing the harvest field; it is
the soul looking at the sunrise which
is sure to come. gliding the clouds on
the mountain peak or driving the va
pors from the lowly valley; it is the
spirit looking through delay and
through defeat to final victory and be-
holding even in the sunset the dawning
of life on other and distant spheres
President John Henry Barrows. Oberlin
University.
Wings of Service.
Men can rise above their present state
only on the wings of service. They i'm
prove their baser condition only by rem
dering to the world what they owe
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