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Onward.-The divine summons to
move onward is MS urgently needed to-
day as 1t ever was.-Rev. w. ]. CHI
chester, Presbyterian, Chicago.
Vital conference.-the trouble with
some is that they have no solid, vital
convictions and are already half con-
scious that what they avow as their
belief will not stand the hght-Rev.
Minot Savage, Unitarian, New York.
The Present.-It has been too much
the custom to discount the present for
the future, and to overlook the needs
| Of to-day in anticipating the glory Of q
brighter world to come.-Rev. b. X.
Cole, Presbyterian, Oakland, Cal.
A Church In Name.-A church may
DE a church only In name, or one In
reality. A church in name Is q society,
organized by men under an apparent
ly divine authority, yet without God
Rev. v. w. Tevis, Methodist, Indian
apolis, Ind.
Christs Greatest Triumph.--Christ's
greatest triumph is that He holds God
and man together. He Is the Great
keystone that connects humanity with
the infinite love Of the Almighty. Rev.
w. z. George, Presbyterian, Kansas
City, Mo.
Cause for Thanks.-Perhaps in no
period of our history as a nation have
we ever had reason. to be more CRATE
full to Almighty God than at this time
for what has occurred within the last
year.-Rev. A. c. Morehouse, Method
list, New York City.
The Rock of Ages.--We may raise
high in the world and pass the ideal of
our ambition, but it will come to naught
| unless we put our trust in the Rock of
| Ages and In the Refuge of our SOULS
Rev. 8. A. Northrop, Baptist, Kansas
City, Mo.
An Everyday Church.-We must
make our church an everyday church,
| adapted to the needs of the day, for
the churches that adapt themselves to
the needs of the day are to be the
churches Of the future.-Rev. A. j. Can
field, Universalist, Chicago, Ill.
Epocbs.-In epochs famed as the
zenith of culture and science, vice, so
reasons the pessimist, has always been
cloaked with stronger effrontery and
worship with more exultant and de-
faint abandon.--Dr. Z. G.. Hirsh, He
brew, Chicago, Ill.
Highest Form of Gods Glory.-Man-
hood and womanhood employed in
worship and in charitable or common
acts done lovingly and joyfully ''in his
name" are the highest form of Gods
external glory known to us.--Rev. G.
X. Nelson, Bishop Of Georgia.
Moral Forces.-I believe in moral
forces more than in physical. and do
not think that the destiny of people
can be determined by commercial
forces, either from the within or the
without.-Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, In
dependent, Chicago, Ill.
Retributive Justice.-Certainiy the
exercise by private individual of re-
tributive justice to the extent Of TAX
ing human life is never lawful. and 1t
is doubtful If the presence of even TO-
100000 of Americans would legalize a
lynching-Rev. J. j. Baxter, Episco-
palian. Boston, Mass.
Great Burdens.-These things which
appear to you great burdens, weighing
you down to destruction are only so be-
cause you fail to appreciate Gods pur-
pose. He intends them to be as min
istering angels, lifting you up to eter-
nal life.-Rev. III. c. Stanton, Presby-
terrain. Kansas CITY. Mo.
Out of the Church.-On Sunday
morning the masses of the people in
this land are found, not facing Zion
ward, but with their faces glued to
newspaper One hundred years ago
there were one million people out Of
the church; to-day there are fifty mill
ions.-Rev. b. +, De Costa, Episco-
palian, New York City.