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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
Our debt to the dead is unspeakable.
For good or ill, the world is largely
ruled by the dead.-Rev. B. Fay Mills.
Evangelist, Boston.
Ethical Life.
Ethical life implies the election Of
motives other than selfish. In our age
who will dispute this-selfishness has
been apotheosized as the one rule of
conduct REV DR.. E. G. Hirsch, He
brew. Chicago.
Highest Freedom.
The highest freedom is not that
which is won at the point Of bayonet
at Yorktown, Gettysburg or San
tiago. but that which comes from the
surrender of ourselves to Godfrey.
George B. Vosburgh, Baptist. Denver
Work and Dignity.
Work is the ground on which all
men meet To work is mans highest
dignity Equality. in the commonly
accepted meaning of that term. never
did. doesn't and never will exist. REV.
R. S. J. Burke. Reformed Church,
Holyoke Mass
Two Gospels.
This age of ours must have its two
gospels, one form for the sinner and
another form for the saved, thus lead
ing the world unsaved to Christ and
the world saved into the fullness and
absoluteness of Christ.-Rev. NJ. A.
Matthews, Presbyterian, Jackson,
Tenn.
Personality is proved not in terms
of time and space, but in. the discovery
of intelligent, progressive law, lead
ing not man alone, but all created life,
slowly upward from one stage of
achievement to anOther.-Mrs. Celia
Parker, Woolley Memorial Chapel.
Chicago.
Revelations of Bible Seers.
The Bible seers reveal a spiritual
world seen with spiritual senses. touch
ed and opened for the purpose; world
peOpled with men and women who have
passed from earth and live in the enjoy
ment of every faculty and sense and
power. though in spiritual and not in
natural bodies L. P. Mercer.
Swedenborgian, Chicago
Meaning of Salvation.
There can be no sundering of that
which belongs to the soul from that
which belongs to the body, for both are
one for Gods purposes, the body in all
its functions and occupations becoming
only the instrument or minister of the
soul This is what we are to understand
by the term salvation.-Rev. Lester
Bradner. Episcopalian, New York.
Usefulness In Affairs of the World.
Our usefulness in this worlds affairs
will largely depend on our habit Of
cherishing the loftiest ideals while
judging our fellow men and all great
affairs from the point of view Of what
man has been. has done and has at
tanned unto in the past and what he
may reasonably be expected to be, to do
and to achieve in the future. DIR.
A. D. Mayo. Boston
Organized Charity.
The system of organized charity now
in operation in most of the large cities
of the country is not right. The stress
on organized charity is another exam
pie Of the sophistries which the scholar
needs to expose. 1 am in favor Of real
charity, but that charity is misnamed
which compels a man to turn his soul
inside out to charity officials before he
can get crust of bread; that charity
is misnamed which forces a woman to
give her history before she can get
garment to clothe her naked child
Rev. George G. Lorimer, Baptist, Bos-
ton.
Heaven a Perfect Place.
Heaven is a real place, a real condi-
ton. It is a perfect place, something
that cannot be said of even the best in
the world. 1t is perfect, with seven
fold perfection. There, as depicted to
US in the book of Revelation. is perfect
holiness. for there shall be no curse
therein; there is perfect government,
for there is the throne of God; there are
perfect obedience and perfect vision,
for they shall see his face; there is per-
feet identity, for his name shall be upon
all foreheads, and no man can be mis-
taken in another; lastly, there are in
the heavenly kingdom perfect day and
perfect glory. DR.. George G.
Needham. Presbyterian, Philadelphia.
Christian Life.
The provisions and promises of God
are equal to his purposes If failure
comes at any point, it is not because
God has been surprised by anything for
which his resources are not adequate.
He wants us to lead lives that will
bring us happiness. Any other kind of
life ends in tragedy, no matter what
may have been the attractions belong
ing to some of it's periods and phases
1t is here where God comes in with his
Intervention that he may make possible
that which without his help would be
impossible God assigns US difficult
tasks, but he can give us no other.
They are the doorways for our entrance
into large and glorious possessions If
we join together with God, we can