News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-04

Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All

Break away from morbid regret.
Seize the present opportunity. Life is
an eternal opportunity.-Rev. William
S. Jones, Church of the Unity, Ran
dolph, Mass.
A Great Misfortune.
1t Is a great misfortune for a young
man to imagine that religion is antag-
Onistic to success in life.-Rev. S. A.
Northrop, Baptist, Kansas City.
Value of Prayer.
The man who prays really feels him
self to be better for having prayed
Professor S. T. Upham, Drew Theolog-
ical Seminary, Madison, N. j., Metho-
dist.
Are You In old StOrage2
Are you in cold storage? If there is
no love in your souls for your fellow
men, your religioa is a pretty cold and
dead sort Of thing.-Rev. George G.
Lorimer, Baptist, Boston.
Bible Is Necessary.
A religion without a Bible is q re-
ligion of harmless distractions and
aimless platitudes, incapable of being
grasped by the masses.-Rev. r. w.
Rogers, Congregationalist, Chicago.
Spiritual Indifference.
Christian persons often lapse into
dreamy spiritual Indifference even
though in heart they stin love their
Lord and Master.-Rev. DR.. John II.
Elliott, Reformed Church, New York.
Christianity Is Practical.
Christianity is the religion for today,
as we'll as for the distant future.
Christianity is the most practical thing
we have anywhere Let us give it a
fair chance,-Rev. G. Il. Davis, Metho-
dist, Boston.
Honor God In Little Things.
Let us not think that we must do
some great thing, as we call it, to hon
or God. Let the little things of life be
done with a true motive, and God will
be honored.-Rev. DR.. r. S. Macarthur,
Baptist, New York.
God In the World.
The world around us is a proof of
Gods love. Every star is a denial of
atheism and every flower a proof of
our Fathers care. There is more in the
universe than dust.-Rev. James Nc
Farland, Presbyterian, Denver.
How to Attain Nobility.
1t is only by nurture and discipline,
by effort, frequent failures and renew
ed trials that nobility Of character is
attained, and in this work there is need
of all the helps Of all the ages.-Rev.
DR.. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, All Souls
Church, Chicago.
All Nature Tells of God.
Nature reveals God as well as the
Bible. Each season of the year has its
| peculiar revelation. If winter tells us
of the sterner aspects of Gods charac-
ter, the spring speaks to us of the gen
tier side.-Rev. H. H. Proctor, Congre-
~gatiOnalist, Atlanta.
A Glorious Life.
Christianity is a life, not a ddWma,
not a creed, not a confession, not a
profession. 1t is the life we are now
living and not the creed we have SUBJ
scribed to by which we are to be judg-
ed here and hereafter.-ReE DR.. Har-
court, Methodist, Reading, Pa.
Religion of Humanity.
Religion has heard the call to come
down from the cloudlands Of the spec
ulative to the thought and work of the
real, the practical, to the questions of
social justice, Of the rights of the peo-
pie, to the religion of humanity.-Rev.
DR.. H. w. Thomas, Peoples Church,
Chicago.
The Brotherhood of Man.
Mankind's advancement by trade
and international treaties is simply
finding out by long, zigzag paths the
sweet truth Of Scripture that all are
made for all, each needs each through
out this vast brotherhood of men,
Rev. S. Edward Young, Presbyterian,
Pittsburg.
Square Your Thoughts with Christ's.
Before the judgment seat of Christ
no honest man need fear. The diff
Guilty of getting the truth into a human
mind is owing to the fact that we
don't know ourselves. When a man
sees himself as he is, the end of all
discipline has been reached. Never
will a man see himself as he is until
his thoughts and Christ's are accord
ant.-Rev. DR.. Reuen Thomas, Congre-
gationalist, Boston.
Governed by the Higher Law.
A man to be morally strong must feel
that all his endowments are from God,
who made nothing in vain. Every atom
in the world of space is governed by a
higher law, and in the same way mar
is governed by a higher law, which
might be called our law of gravitation.
Under that law we live and move and
have our being. In obedience to that
law lies our only safety.-Rev. DIR. j.
e. Rankin, President of Howard Uni
versity, Washington.
An Inspiring Thought.
No more inspiring and clarifying
thought can take possession of a mans
life than the consciousness that he can
not drift beyond Gods love and care.
TO rest in the great God in whom we
live and move and have our being, to
feel that over and around us is his wise
and loving providence, that beneath us
are the everlasting arms, that in us is
his directing voice or spirit-this is the