News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-10-30
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.


of All Denominations.
Christs peace is the living peace Of
lOve.-Rev. T. ]. Villers, Baptist, In
dianapolis. Ind.
Natures NOblemen.
Natures noblemen are they who earn
an honest livelihood by the busy use of
brain or bmwn.-Rev. DR.. Hunter,
Presbyterian, Denver.
Defective Teaching.
To try to teach and at the same time
ignore religion must necessarily be de-
fective eaching.-Bishop John j. Glen
non, Roman Catholic, Kansas City, Mo.
How to Win Men.
If the enthusiasm of the church on
fire with the Holy Ghost shall lead men
who mock and oppose to simply listen
to the Christ we preach, they will be-
come interested. charmed fascinated
and won.-Rev Dr. A. G. Dixon, Bap-
fist, Boston.
Helping the World.
Think your own thoughts and live
your own life. Be thoroughly honest
in both matters and you will help the
world in its progress toward the ideal
man and the ideal society.-Rev. DR..
George H. Hepworth, Congregational
list, New York.
God the Source of All.
Few men acknowledge that they owe
all they have to their God. If they are
living in the enjoyment of riches they
consider their good fortune not as
gift from God, but as the results of
their own labor or merely gift of
chance-Rev. Father Duclos, Catholic,
Atlanta.
Useless.
A man may live a listless and I'M
eventful life without hearing the di-
| vine voice, but no man can be a benefit
to his race or a hero in a crisis, nor
can he solve the perpleXing problems
of life without revelation of Cod
Rev. Donald c. Macleod, Presbyte-
| rian, Washington.
The Social Problem.
Serious as the social problem is, there
seems almost ludricous element to
it. Against what are we struggling?
Simply against ourselves. There is no
| artificial restraint upon us. Absolute,
unhindere1, almost godlike power is in
the hands of the people. We have in
our own hands the cause and the cure,
if cure there be.-Rev. Albert G. Grier,
Universalist, Racine, Wis.
Christ ALWAYS the Same
Recently we have seen much discus
sion in the newspapers of the different
phases of Christianity, of the changes
of creeds, of alleged dissensions over
these things. We have descriptions of
a medieval Christ and of a modern
! Christ. Jesus Christ is the same yes
terday, today and forever.-Rev. DR..
Henry G. Minton, Presbyterian Gener-
al Moderator, San Francisco.
Not by Bread Alone.
Toiltng, scheming, perspiring, worry
! ing millions, why break down your
bodies and eat up your lives in cease
! less effort TO get bread or what will
buy bread? Are your bodily wants
your only wants? Have you not wants
beyond the power of bread to satisfy?
| Get bread, but do not attempt to live
by bread alone Rev. Hugh A. Or
chard, Christian Church. Roodhouse,
| Iii.
Liberalism.
To be a liberal is to love larger views,
to reach a point of outlook from which
the special and the selfish, the greatest
bane of mankind, is lost sight of in
the universal and unselfish. The con-
sentative element of our humanity pre-
serves thG%good already won, but there
are new field to be explored and new
good to be found. The liberal has ever
been an explorer Wilson NJ
Backus, Unitarian, Chicago.
Final Resorts.
In the last resort it is not the money
| that counts, but the men; not tie AZ
mories, but the heart and dispose. Of
the people. And that ultimately de-
ponds upon moral and religious GJlli
ties. In last resort the cOuuuy rs.is
back upon the soundness Of healt ;.ad
cleanness of blood of its so25 AID
daughters, upon fortitude and faith
and sacrifice and love.-Rey. Hugh
Black, Free Church, Edinburgh.