Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-11-27
The spirit's whisperings.


The Spirits whfspertngs.
The most decisive witness Of the
Holy Spirits coming are often whis'
perings instead Of shoutings In our
ears. The world around us is filled
with evidence. The word Of God steals
upon us like thief in the night. We
ought to be concerned about the repeat
ed daily coming of Christ.-Rev. f. j.
Mcconnell, Methodist, Cambridge,
Mass.
Religion and Toll.
Religion Is not something remote
from the toll and trials of human life.
It is not too delicate and celestial to
enter into the battles and struggles of
men. We should be untrue to our prin-
ciples and recreant to our trust if we
did not use all our powers Of persuasion
to create an atmosphere in which these
difficulties which now vex the country
shall be settled and permanently set
tied with justice to all.-Rev. f. l..
Phalen, Unitarian, Worcester.
The Kingdom of Heaven.
"The kingdom Of heaven" a phrase
a figure of speech. picture, dream
intangible. vague, mysterious, yet il
expresses the inspiration of all the
generations, the dominant force in all
history, for under some form of words
it has voiced the faith and aspiration
Of humanity from the beginning, and
all the struggles Of the ages have been
but witnesses to its hidden energy
Wherever men have believed in some
thing purer, holier, more enduring ano
more satisfying than they have yet
seen or known there the influence OF
the kingdom of heaven has been felt
Rev. DR.. V. V. Raymond, President
Union College. Schenectady, N. Y.
Religion Contagious.
Religion is contagious Therefore
walk as a child Of light. Like the fire
on the ground that creeps from one in
flammable particle to another or in the
woods from bush to bush and tree tC
tree, SO the truth spreads from heart tC
heart. The mothers piety often affects
the child. The son becomes Christian
partly because the father is one. The
sisters unselfish, consistent life leads
the brother nearer to Christ The holy
fire, thought by the worshipers to be
from God himself, at the church of the
holy sepulcher ut Jerusalem goes wher
handed out from person to person
from taper to taper. till the whole area
is q sea of fame, and the galleries, too
are lit up with the sacred blaze. Thus
should the fire Of eternal life spread
from man to man, from heart to heart
till all men shall truly know the Lord
Rev. Il. II. Acheson, Presbyterian
Denver.
Science and Revelation.
II this Bible does not appeal to the
brain, how is it that science and reve-
lation by the statements Of the Bible
are daily becoming more and more har.
monized? AS intelligent men do you
not know that, though the scientists
have for centuries been squabblng,
these differences are gradually passing
away and that science and revelation
are coming into closer and more har'
monious relations in regard to many
things whereon they formerly dis.
agreed? 1t is only within a few weeks
that Professor Sayce, writing on the
latest archaeological discoveries, said
"In every case where we can test the
Bible story by contemporaneous mon
uments, the authenticity OF which is
doubted by no one, we find it con,
firmed and explained even in the mi.
nutest points" Do you not know as
intelligent men and women that many
recent discoveries of the archnologists
prove that the leaves of the Bible, some
of them written 1000 years ago, are
absolutely in accord with scientific
facts which are continually being re
vealed?-Rev. DR.. Frank De Witt Tai
mage, Presbyterian, Chicago.