News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-08
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

pies Church, Chicago.
Mans Natural Attitude.
Mans natural attitude is that of a
perpetual seGker.-Rev. DR.. Harris,
Universalist, Worcester, Mass.
Destiny of the Race.
The destiny of the race depends up
on what men love and what they know
Rev. A. Roeder, Swedenborgian, Or
ange, N. J.
The Spirit of Unity.
Unity is not necessarily identity; but
it is sympathy. There may be diver
stiles Of gifts, but there may be also
the same spirit; the spirit of love and
Christian tolerance.-Rey. J. e. Adams,
Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
Christ's Word the Chart.
Every forward movement must be
through Christ His word is our chart.
His spirit is our guide. His person is
our star Our motto is, Not a new
gospel, but more gospel"-Rev. Henry
Van Dyke, Presbyterian. Princeton,
N. J.
True Religion.
Religion does not consist in mere
connection with the Christian church
or in formal worship; it is connected
with the soul of man and has respect
to internal condition. Rev. Dr. VIII
liam A. Silvius, Presbyterian. Pitts
burg.
Grent City "a wilderness.
st. Johns wilderness of rock is a fit
name for a great city. 1t is a wilder
ness, and there are no wilder beasts of
passion roaming among forests than
some of the human monsters which
live in the city.-Rev. DR.. Frank De
Witt TaImage, Presbyterian, Chicago.
The Love That Triumphs.
Every man who feels 81 am my
brothers keeper" carries the stainless
and blOodless weapon of a love with
which he shall triumph with the gods,
as their mills grind selishness in all its
forms finer than dust.-Rev. Frederick
e. Hopkins, CongregatiOnalist, Chica-
go.
Evil Effect Of OverinduIgence.
Avoid an overindulgent spending of
money. 1t is not hard work, but self
indulgence, that ruins men. Revelry
and luxury are the enemies of success.
Real happiness consists not in in
creasing riches, but in limiting ones
wants.-Rev. Arthur Thomas Fowler,
Baptist, Chicago.
The Mission of the Church.
The church that knows its business
and has caught the spirit of its Master
is not trying to build itself up in sepa-
rateness from the world, but to put it.
self with its ideals, aims and principles
out into the world, that the world may
be changed.-Rev. Charles r. Brown,
Oakland, Cal.
Must Begin with the Pulpit.
The church needs higher Christian
living that must begin with the pulpit |
and show itself in the life and preach
ing of the preacher as well as in the |
pew. The preacher who would become |
a reformer must first reform himself. |
He must be sure that egotism self gIo- |
~ and self gain do not get into his eff |
forts.-Rev. DR.. William j. Holtzclaw, |
Baptist, Atlanta, Ga.
The American Paradise.
The homes of our American people |
are the American paradise. There are |
against the home life of our
people. These tendencies should be |
If we are to grow great |
er as nation as the years go on, the |
American homes must be the great |
centers of our patriotic and religious
altar fires. The good home is the par
adise-Rev. DR.. Pickard, Baptist, !
Cleveland, o.
Something Better Farther On.
Hope-what is it? The strange some
thing which has made history and
saved the world, for we read in the
epistle to the Romans, I'VE are saved
1y hope" What is hope? A rational
something better farther on, from the
morning of life to the setting of the
sun; something better farther on
Rev. A. u. Conrad, Congregationalist
" forester, Mass.
Ourselves Rather Than Our Gifts.
The hope and faith of the Christian
20 forth clad in the robes of sympa-
by. There is no other dress for the
gospel virtues. Without sympathy ev-
Try grace is stark and unsightly. With
t the plainest face is respondent, the
larshest voice is tender and sweet
The world is dying for self abandon
ng love. 1t needs ourselves rather
han our gifts.-Rev. Joseph Wilson
cochran, Presbyterian, Philadelphia.
Christ and the Golden Rule.
Many of Christ's sayings were not
lew in form, but they were radiant
With new meaning. He did not create
! new man, but he revealed in man a
lew manhood a new humanity. He
lid not claim originality for the Golden
tule Whatsoever We would that men
hould do to you, do We even so to
hem, for this is the law and the proph-
is" But to these words he gave real
ty; he coined them anew in the mint
# his life.-Rev. Percy Stickney Grant,
New York.
The Philosophy of God.
Gods philosophy of life is very sim
lie. He made the body out of dust.