The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-01-01
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0R A7a uen1na1nnftons.
How .lelicatsiy balanced Is the hpl
man heart How slight push can tip
is into the abyss Of woe.-Rev. Dr.
Frank Crane. Methodist. Chicago.
Mothers. Prayers.
Great men are made by Christian
mothers watching and praying for them.
Gods promises do not fail. -Dr. @. E.
bowman, Episcopal, Atlanta.
Sesus Always sattsnes.
The satisfying power Of Jesus Christ
has been tested under every conceivable
condition and has never failed. Rev
Dr.. Gumbart. Baptist. Boston.
secret of Happiness.
The secret of happy life consists in
knowing how to accept inevitable re-
sponsihility as privilege. Rev. DR..
Frank Crane, Methodist, Chicago.
Christ's Help.
The sun Of righteousness can pene-
trate the darkest cloud. II men want
help, they can have it from the conquer
ing Christ.-Rev T. O. Beattie. Pres
byterian, Albuquerque, n. NJ
Beauties of the Gross.
The beauties OF the cross stand ont
more ssrongly in the silent virtues Of a
boastless life than beneath the artificial
glamor of presumptuous egotism. Rev.
Edward McHugh, Methodist, Cincin-
natl.
The Need of Love.
The man who loves God enough will
know exactly what is right and what is
wrong. Otherwise there is a sort of
moral 'obtuseness, based on lack of love
and loyalty to God.-Bishop Fl. G. Nor
rison, Methodist, Louisville
Christ and Our Innrmfties.
Christ is the physician of the nine
teenth century as well as of the first.
He stands ready to bear our infirmities
and our sicknesses. His mission is espe-
cialIy to remove moral maladies.-Dr
Stephen A. Northrop. Baptist, Kansas
City.
The Soul of God.
There is presence beating at the i'm
pulses of conscience, beating through
the manifestations of nature. 1t is not of
stuff or stone. but is the soul of God.
And we can never find peace until it
enters in. Rev. A. NJ. Judy, Unitarian,
Davenport, La.
The Church's Mission.
The mission of the church is like that
of the north star to the mariner She
guides, she directs Her ambition in
winning over to Christ the intellectual
world of today is to make all the sci
ences SO many little worlds Of thought
gravitating toward God.-Rev. Edmund
I. Shanahan, Catholic, Washington.
"Mustered Ont"
1.-THE boys in blue are marching
home, +" he said. MANY will soon be
mustered out of the service and will re-
ceive rich reward from the hands of
the grateful republic whose GAUGE they
have served so we'll. We are all mus
tered into the battle Of life and our
choice is the sort of service we will rem
der. When the day of mastering out
comes, shall we hear the addresses from
the throne with gladness or fear?''-
Rev. Melbourne T. Boynton. Baptist.
Chicago.
True Unity of Christianity.
Not fewer churches, but churches
composed Of individuals of deeper and
purer conservation are the necessity OF
the hour, and the unity pertaining tc
Christianity ought not to be like unto
that of row of dead animals in a mu-
scum, each possessed of the same in
ward emptiness of tow and cotton, but
rather like a group of stately draft
horses, each vigorous in its own
strength, but all pulling at one load. -
Rev. Charles E. st. John, Unitarian,
Bellefeld, Pa.
Like an Apple Tree.
From your poor and ordinary life you
can produce results which rival those OF
the tree when you learn the trees secret
The tree does its best with what it has
and is satisfied. While doing its best
the miracle takes place, and you find a
leaf, a fragrant blossom, ripe apple.
You are surprised, for how could they
come from snch a commonplace soil:
Still, there they are, and if you taste
the apple you will see that it is real and
ripe and luscious. So, from the COM
monplaces of life the soul, when its
roots are imbedded in the rich soil OF
faith, can evolve character very like
an archangel's. Common tears and COM
mon smiles and common struggles can,
like sculptor's chisel, give us such q
shape of symmetry that God will vel
come Us to heaven with ''well done,
good and faithful servant. Rev.
George H. Hepworth. Congregational
ist, New York.
Ideal Commonwealth.
In all ages the dream of an ideal COM
monwealth has lent the soldier his
splendid courage, lent the scholar his
stainless life. That vision, too, has help
ed the hero to forget his sufferings and
made the martyr to go toward his fu.
neral pile with face bright with the
glory of that city whose walls fame in
the sky. Pathetic has been mans pill
grimage; long and weary his forward
march; but, because there is "a good
time coming - the xvav has haen mt tor