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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teach4nGs
of All Determinations.

| RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachanss
of All Determinations.
Happiness is the flower that blooms
from the stalk of right living.
NJ. L. Haines, Episcopalian, Indian
apolis
Trees and Streets.
What the ivy is to the wall, the flow.
er to marge of stream, is the tree to
the street.-Rev. George H. Combs,
Christian Church, Kansas City.
Reward For Conformity to Gods
The perfected grain of harvest days
is the reward which God hands over to
diligence, patience and conformity to
his laws.-Rev. E. Trumbul Lee. Pres
byterian, Cincinnati.
Gods Power Over Our Health.
Close to God means close to physical
health, and far from God means phys
ical as well as mental suffering.-Rev
George H. Hepworth, Congregational
ist, New York.
Greatest Man.
He who does the greatest amount Of
good is the greatest man. Truthfulness
reveals the genuine quality of our ma
ture.-Rev. William Watson, Presby-
terian, Birkenhead, England
A Christians TwOfold Nature.
The whole of the Christian life are
the dying of the old selfish nature and
the triumph and emergence of the new
and holy nature. DIR. Warren G.
Partridge. Baptist. Cincinnati
Mans influence.
l. hat Inf1T1-
ence lasts while his work is being done,
but I would add to that, for his infu-
ence is felt ages after he is gone--Rev.
T. s. Leland, Methodist, Denver
All Are Opportunities.
In every mans life there is supreme
moment. No "a hours of a mans life
molds our character. Every act either
makes US better or worse.-Bishop
Joyce, Methodist, Denver.
Ohr Loving Father.
God is our loving Father, and through
Christ we have become his children
This is the greatest thought ever spo-
ken to the world, and it was so uttered
that every child can understand it
Rev. R. l.. Gerhart. Lutheran. Belle
fonte, Pa.
Spiritualism is the mother of all true
religions, PHILOSOPHERS and sciences.
Every religion of the ages has been SIM
ply the result of mans effort to under
stand spiritualism-that is, truth con-
corning life in all its forms and prob
lems.-Dr. G. D. Larson, Cincinnati.
Science and Religion.
There are inspirations in the heart
that science cannot satisfy. Religion
meets the want. It shows us that we
are of God and to God we must return.
1t gives us the true philosophy of life
and the law of living, defining for US
our end and destiny.-Rev. Philip
Organ, Catholic, San Francisco.
Panacea For All Ills.
Christianity is the panacea for all
our ills, the only panacea, and we shall
never be well and strong, cheerful and
contented, until we take Christianity
out of our creeds, where it is like an
eagle chained, and put it into our lives,
its only fitting residence.-Rev.G George
H. Hepworth. Congregationalist, New
York
Which Shall 1t Be:
Love of God leads to. peace, holiness,
joy, happiness. Love of the world leads
to discord, unrighteorkness, sorrow and
death. They are Incompatible Where
one lives the other suffocates- Which
shall it be2 We cannot serve God and
Mammon. Let us hate the one and love
God with all our power and strength.
Rev. Archibald N. Bradshaw, Marble
Collegiate, Church. New York City.
The Heavenly Telephone.
Whence come the thrills of courage
into our souls. of strength for need, Of
hope for darkness, unless along the line
which stretches from the darkened at
mosphere of our lives up to the very
heart of God, whence descend to us, as
angelic music, Divine love and pity
upon the long distance line from earth
to heaven Rev. DIR. Robert Graham,
Presbyterian, Philadelphia.
Trees Enrich Soul Life.
Trees make for the enrichment Of the
soul life. They bring nature to us in
all its healing ministry. There is moth
ing inspirational in a paved street, no
uplift in a brick wall, but tie tree
somehow lifts us out of the fever Of our
living, out of the grossness of our
thinking, out of the dullness of our
dreaming, and makes our every heart
to tremble through the thrush of the
divine.-Rev. George 81. Combs, Chris
tan Church, Kansas City.
influence of Gods Love.
To any man who looks at life through
any other medium than the love Of God
there must appear to be not much to
it. From the cradle to the grave there
are but few steps. and even these few
are made through toll and SORROW. If
God does not love US, there is not much
to life If he does not love us, it is