The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-11-27
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations

of All Denominations.
The real and true meaning OF saved
as it is used in the church today
means the salvation or saving from
sin so that the world will be accepta-
BILE in the sight of God.-Rev. al. L..
Garfield, Universalist, Belleville, o.
The Divine Purpose.
The sacrifices of the past reveal dim
" somewhat of the divine purpose for
humankind, but they foreshadowed all
too dimly the tremendous purpose Of
God. The gist of Gods purpose is that
all men may be saved.-Rev. M. p.
Fixes, Baptist, Baltimore.
Fu1lness of the Gospel.
In Christ we see all the fullness Of
the gospel, the glory he had with his
Father. If Paul were alive today, he
would not forget the unsearchable
greatness and riches of his Saviour
When we see the beauties Of his life,
we Go not see how condescending he
was.-Rev. ]. Povey, Congregational
list, Detroit.
A Striking Spiritual Life.
AS natural death is the gate through
which we pass into Gods kingdom
above, so death to sin initiates us into
GODS kingdom on earth. With many
people the Christian life is simply an
orthodox creed or happy state of the
emotions, but the apostle teaches us
that the Christian life is a striking
spiritual life.-Rev. S. G. Neil, Baptist,
Philadelphia.
Christ the Liberator.
How blind the world is! Praying
constantly for liberty, it has invariably
despised the liberator Jesus although
despised and rejected of men, came
into this world to make US free. He
was the incarnation of Gods love and
wisdom If it had not been for him,
nothing like liberty would have dawned
Upon earth.-Rev. f. E. Hopkins, Con-
gregationalist, Chicago.
Christ's Impressive Silence.
Silence means much or little, accord,
ing to who it is that is silent and the
occasion on which he is silent. There
is nothing in the New Testament more
impressive than the silence of Jesus
Christ. Silence pervades the greater
part of his life. In the first thirty
years we have only two momentary
glimpses of him. God looks down
upon the wickedness Of the world in
silence, just as Jesus Christ waited
during thirty long years without work
ing a single miracle for the relief of
suffering.--Rev. r. M. Goodchild, Bap-
fist, New York.
No Other God.
We see at once how our regulating
principle of love not only puts life and
value into the keeping of the law, but
interprets it and makes it's keeping
easy. If we love God as we ought, we
shall have no desire to bring in any
other god to share his place in our
hearts. And we shall not think that
we have kept this commandment be-
cause we do not worship a heather
deity. We shall not allow any earthly
ambition or desire to occupy that SUI
preme place of interest and affection
which is Gods alone-Rev. r. Hadow.
Presbyterian, Toronto, Canada.
Essential Characterization.
What are the essential characteris-
tics Of a God inspired life? Faith,
which takes hold Of truth and of per-
sonal Christ; purity, which puts Gods
truth into living embodiment; hope,
which draws upon things promised as
well as upon those revealed, and love,
which uniteS the heart to God and
man. Such a life, we scarcely need to
be told, is not a sudden attainment. It
is growth. 1t is not the result of one
effort It is the work Of a lifetime. 1t
is this kind of life which is the jewel
Of the soul-Rev. w. P. Harmon, Con
gregationalist, Brooklyn.
The Sublimest Truth.
The profoundest, the sublimest, truth
ever revealed to man is the truth that
centers in Calvary. It has been the
greatest redemptive force in the world
for 1900 years, and the truth Of Cal
vary is the truth Of gain through sacri-
fee; that love, the forgetting Of self,
the giving Of life in service, is the
mightiest power known among men
for winning all that can be won. To
the foot Of the cross, to the Christ that
lived and died for others, have been
brought all the treasures of earth, hon
or, praise, reverence, gold and precious
stones.-Rev. DR.. Raymond, Schenecta
dy, n. Y.
Need a Larger Salvation.
We have come to agree that saliva
ton is q matter of character, and we
know that character has its root in
heredity, that it is never simply good
or bad that it fuctuates from year to
year So we see that if Christ has to
do with all human life and destiny he
must in some way operate within that
infinitely complicated thing we call
life. The world is prepared today to
see more in Christ than it ever has in
the past, because it sees more clearly
the stupendous difficulty Of the task
he undertook. 1t welcomes the reve-
IatiOn of tho larger aViOJ7r hQcauSe il