News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-18
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachingn
of All Denominations.
Religion consists in helping others
and heresy in forcing others to serve
you.-Rev. DIR. George II. Hepworth,
Congregationalist, New York.
Christ's Lesson.
This is the lesson of Christ, that the
Almighty cares for every individual
life.-very Rev. Dean MILFORD L. Rob-
bins, Episcepalian, Albany.
Solemn Truth.
This is mighty and a solemn truth
which we must all learn-if we would
be happy, joy comes through what we
freely do for others.-Rev. J. .. Rust,
D. D., Baptist. Nashville. i
The Problem of Each Life.
The problem of each individual life
ought to be usually the problem of
transforming its wasting forces into
channels of personal and social helpful
ness.-Rev. r. a. White, Uniyersalist
Chicago.
A Debit Balance.
The man who enlarges his business
by contracting his religion, swells his
income by starving his soul, will find
the balance sheet to be woefully against
him at the final reckoning.-Rev. James
B. Nixon, Methodist Protestant, Pitts
burg.
Be Strong In Faith.
Men may sheer to your face if you
are loyal to your convictions, but if you
will live them with unfinching perse-
verance they will honor you in their
hearts; shrink and fly the track, and
they will despise you.-Rev. Madison c.
Peters, Baptist, Brooklyn.
Twin Emotions.
Patriotism and religion are twin emo
tons of the human soul. The preserva-
ton of the Sabbath is as patriotic as
the preservation of the flag, and the
guarding Of the Bible as truly patriotic
as the guarding of our shores.-Rev.
DR.. j. NJ. Thoburn, Methodist, Pitts
burg.
The Foundations of God.
What are the foundations of God?
We behold them in his conception and
adjustment Of this physical world of
wonderment and beauty, in the unique
gift to man of the processes of thought,
reason and judgment.-Rev. Dr. Charles
F. Weeden, Congregationalist, Lynn,
Mass.
Christ an Essential of Manhood.
The manhood which can save the in
dividual and society is a manhood with
| conscience and heart as well as intel
| lect, and neither conscience nor heart
nor intellect can receive the training
it needs except from a knowledge of
Christ.-Rev. DR.. Thomas j. Conaty
Catholic, Washington.
A Privileged Glass.
Wherever suffering has come from. it
calls out all that is best in human ma
ture-sympathy, self denial, gentleness,
compassion, forgiveness of spirit, pa
tient forbearance-all that is most di-
vine in man. The suffering are the
privileged class for enrching the
world.-Rev. DR.. John H. Prugh, Re-
formed Church, Pittsburg.
Gods Kingdom Is Coming.
| After centuries of a progress of COM
passion so slow that sometimes there
seemed to be no progress, so slow that
sometimes the current seemed to be set
ting back, we are now arrived at a time
when the river of human kindness
flows full and strong toward the ocean
of Gods love.-Rev. DR.. George Hodges,
Episcopalian, Cambridge, Mass.
Kindness.
| What does it all mean that a person
is kind? That he remembers other peo-
pie; that he is not bound up with his
own affairs; that he is capable of max
| ing sacrifices; that he is willing to serve
his fellow men. 1t means that his heart
is not of stone, but of flesh; that his
spirit is not of the world but of Christ.
Rev. DR.. John Watson Gan Mac
laren), Presbyterian, Liverpool, Eng
land.
All Men Are Brothers.
Religion alone can supply the proper
motion for charitable work. 1t whis-
pers, 1--WE are men," This means that
we are not merely of dust, but that in
the shell of dust something divine has
been breathed. Man is made in the
image of God, and the Christian re-
members that he shed the light of di-
vinity over the entire human race
Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Hebrew, Chi
cago.
How God Controls Souls.
Exactly as we are aware of some
hidden means by which the heart of
our friend, also separated from us by
spaces which cannot be crossed, new
ertheless reaches out Invisible hands
that grapple us by "hOoks Of Steel" so
men have been at times made con-
scious that the faroff Deity controls
them and commands them where they
stand by the spirit which searches their
inmost souls.-Rev. Howard n. Brown,
Kings Chapel, Boston.
Eternal Realities.
Theologies may fall, doctrines decay,
sacred authorities be deposed, but the
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