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The Beginning and End.-Christ 10
the beginning and the end of the Chris
tlan religion.-Rev. Chas. M. Jacobs,
Lutheran, Philadelphia, Pa.
Our Father-When Jesus came he
said, call God "Our Father" and made
1t possible for us to enter into the full
relationship of children.-Rev. r. L.
Gerhart, Lutheran, Bellefonte, Pa.
Sin.-Sln everywhere letters and en-
slaves, degrades and brutaHzes, and
there is no deliverance from it's thral-
dom except through Jesus Christ
Rev. Geo. Adams, Methodist Brooklyn,
New York.
Shallow Talk.-A deal Of talk about
leaving the temples of men for Gods
first temples in quest of truer wor-
ship Is as shallow as the men who
make it.-Rev. III. E. Foss, Methodist,
Bangor, Me.
Duty.-There is no escape from duty,
either to ones self or to ones fellow
man. One may evade duty for while,
but that Is only to make the perform
ance of it harder.-T. b. Wilson, The
osophite, Kansas City, Mo.
Methodism.-John Wesley was the
personification of Methodism. He was
a child Of Providence, as was Method
ism. He became the most aggressive,
independent preacher of his day.-Rev.
]. O. Knott, Methodist, Baltimore, Md.
Belief In a Soul-Belief in a soul
made logical the belief in immortality,
for the belief In immortality Is essen
TALLY founded upon faith in the integ-
rity Of human nature.-Rev. Samuel r.
Calthrop, Unitarian, Syracuse, n. Y.
New Things.-Only "new things" can
avail unto the advancement of religion
in America. The world has advanced,
and the institutions of the Middle Ages
can have no place in our era.-Rev. l..
f. Kearney, Roman Catholic. Balti-
more, Md.
Coo Will.-We should be submits
sive to Gods will in all things, remem-
bering that Jesus Christ has fought the
battle and won the victory. Then the
will be saved.-Rev. DR.. Holderby, At
lanta, Ga.
Gods Work.-God's work is not de-
pendent upon human power or money,
but Is wrought by his spirit. Let us
pray for more of his spirit, so that we,
as Christians, can do more of his work.
MIR. John Wanamaker, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Founding of Christianity.-At the
founding of Christianity the obstacles
seemed utterly insurmountable, and
they have been great in every century
of its history, and they are great to-
day.-Rev. z. A. Woods, Baptist, San
Francisco, Cal.
your culture, use your education and
all your powers for the help and adj
vancement Of others; for not until then
will you realize life in all its fullness,
its beauty and its grand possibilities
Rev. ]. s. Penman, Bangor, Me.
Simple Duties.-How hard to be great
when there is no banner, no music, no
applauding multitudes-but when, ST.
lent and lonely, one sees the simple du-
ties needing to be done without n word
of praise or ray of hope.-Rev. Geo.
l.. Perrin, Universalist, Boston, Mass.
Luck or Chance.-If luck or chance
rules, then there can be no stability,
nothing fixed and certain. We must
take one of the horns of this dilemma.
1t is impossible to hold both. Law and
luck working together is a logical i'm
possibility.-Mrs. Gestefcld, christian
Scientist, Chicago, Ill.
Christ's Kingdom.-Christ says his
kingdom Is not of this world. His mir
acles are the puzzles of civilization and
the agony Of agnostics; they do not
know what to do with them. Christ
cannot give what the world has to give.
Christ rejected the world.-Rev. DR..
Clifford, Buffalo, N. Y.
A Cross.-There Is a cross of the
devil and there is cross Of Christ.
There is reaping Of thorrs and there
is reaping of flowers. There is a
suffering in doing good, whose crown
Is eternal. There is suffering In doing
evil whose crown Is everlasting de-
spair.-Rev. s. A. Northrop, Baptist,
Kansas City, Mo.
Democracy-The cry of every one,
Of every class. of every section that
rights shall be given all, is itself a
that democracy means
that there can be no
without righteousness-tha
Is, providing this cry for rights Is
winged with the moral consciousness
Of the involved esponsibility.-Rev. E.
@. Hirsch, Hebrew, Chicago, IN.
The Disciples.-Christ wished His
disciples to remain behind him in the
world for their sakes and for the sake
Of the world; they needed the training
and discipline, the experience and
moral development, and the world
needed the truth, the example and in
spiration that these Christian men
would give to it.-Rev. William A. Was
son, Episcopalian, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Logis of Events.-There is such
l thing as the logic of events, the
march of history, the inevitable, and
We sometimes feel helpless when con-
'ronted by this unmistakabie march Of
events. We do what we can to pro-
est, but are overborne. We say we
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