Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1902-11-05
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.

HEEIGIOOS 7OOOF1I.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
The greatest study of mankind Is
Godfrey. George Adams. Methodist,
Brooklyn.
Respect For LAW.
He who respects the laws of God will
respect the laws of man.-Rev. DR..
Herbruch, Reformed, Canton, o.
An Unfit Teacher.
He who would rob man of his faith
In God can be no teacher of American
patrlotlsm.-Bishop Fallows. Eplsco-
pal, Chicago.
Drink In the Light"
The eye that would see the King In
his beauty must drink In the light and
be changed by it.-Rev. Dr. Francis K.
Marsten, Presbyterian, New York.
Not Saved EN- Masse.
To the world the gospel comes with
a message Of regeneration and the per
fecting of character. but it comes to
the individual. Men are not saved en-
masse.-Rey. l.. S. Bowerman, Baptist.
ST. Louis.
The Spiritual World.
Men of keen spiritual vision are look
ing for some significant occurrence in
the spiritual world. Some think ii will
be combination of forces that will
greatly advance the kingdom of Cod
Rev. ii. A. Proctor. Congregationalis
Atlanta. Ga.
The Temptation of Today.
The great temptation for men today
is to barter Christ for currency. char
acter for coin and God for geld. The
highest need is for prophets to all our
attention to the values that cannot be
measured by money. Rev. Bruce
Brown, Christian, Denver
The Living Temple.
AS the stable Of Bethlehem became
the shrine of the world so does the re-
deemed soul become the temple of the
living God. Christ in your heart
cleansing it., Transforming 1t, purifying
it-this is the hope of Il glorified life
Rev. J. l.. Caughey, Presbyterian.
Rochester, n. Y.
working For tbs SALOON.
1t is fact but little known that one
ninth of all the money spent by the
world is spent for intoxicating drink.
In other words, the American working
man works eight days for himself and
for his family and then takes Il day off
and works for the saloon.-Rey. Carl
f. Henry, Upiversalist, Cleveland
An Adequate Faith.
Faith must be adequate to the de.
mands of life. 1t clamOrs for suffi.
cient remedy to meet Il condition, tO
give sight for peering through the mist
of death to the light of life beyond; in
short, to find him who brought life and
to light in the gospel
Rev. Dr. Lowry. Baptist. Kansas City.
Mo.
God Working In Nature.
God is spirit. Man also is spirit. Ma
ture in certain sense is to Gods spir'
it what the body is to mans spirit
the vehicle through which he
puts forth his material activities BE.
cause man Is spirit no is godli;' Spir
ituality is the first and essential divine
likeness. -Iirv. DR.. W w Landruni
Baptist. Atlanta. Ga.
Supplies the Worlds Needs.
The world needs precisely the things
that the church was organized To sup
ply. 1t needs strength to resist tempta.
ton, it needs rules for the guidance of
life, it needs support under aflliction.
solace in bereavement and Il hope OF
heaven after death. All these blessings
come by Christianity.-Rev. DR.. Frank
De Witt Talmage, Presbyterian, Chi
cago.
The Gifts Of God.
Our physical traits, our mental EN-
iowments, are gifts of God. and the
same thing is true of the moral virtue
ye may pQssess. The excelences of
latural disposition are bestowed by
he grace of God. and In these rs well
Is in character itself we see colors as
liverse as the tlnts Of rainbow
Rev. DR.. Stevenson. Presbyterian. New
York.
Practical Religion.
The next great movement of the
.hurch il to be i'm the direction of prac-
ical religion, of regenerated society,
md the freeing of the word of God is
preparation for it. And then the
world is open to the Christian religion.
The unrestricted word can capture pa
,anism as the restricted word never
+. NJ Smith, Methodist, |
tioomipgton. III.
TOO Big E0r HnYap Langunge.
Human language is utterly ipsntt-
lent to convey to the spiritual under
standing of man the gracious reyelq-
ion of the infinite God. At best humap
language is very finite and very linn
ted instrument even for the intellect
f man to work with. Much less is IL
efficient to convey or express all truth
0 the spiritual nature of man. Truth
5 too big for human language.-Rey.
Or. George Il. Pcntecost. New York.
Affinity with God.
Just as the fragment of shattered
mirror is also mirror itself. just as
he smallest drop of water possesses
II the qualities and is subject to the
anne laws as the oceans floods, so the
tom of spirit we call human sour is
lost truly fragment, drop, of the
ireqt Soul. Must il. then, not have ar
nifty WITH its origin; affinity. therefore
Intercourse therefore INFLUENCE? heg.
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