News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-27
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.

their development.-Rev NJ. p. Smith,
Catholic, San Francisco.
Love and Law.
Love is not something than can be
forced upon us by law.-Rev DR.. W.
w. Landrum, Baptist, Atlanta, Ga.
Ought to he Better.
Every man knows that he ought to
be better than he is, and when he is
wrong he knows it.-Bishop Joyce,
Methodist Pittsburg.
At Its Best.
Some people would have us think
Christ took no other view Of mankind
than to speak of it at its best.-Rev.
DR.. Withrow, Congregationalist, Bos-
ton.
Harvest of Corruption.
Go where you will you will find that
the sower to the flesh always reaps a
harvest of corruption.-Rev.D Dr.. Frank
De Witt Talmage, Presbyterian, Chi
cago.
Vessels Unto DishOnOr.
There are many in the church, the
great house of God, who are vessels
unto dishonOr These are not sancti-
fed and not fit for the Masters USE
Rev. DR.. Holderby, Presbyterian, At
lanta, Ga.
Fruition of Heaven.
Hope begins with infancy and holds
through our earthly life. Hopes be-
come fruition in heaven, and yet in a
very real sense there too, hope itself
will abide.-Rev. DR.. Lowry, Baptist,
Kansas City, Mo.
Direct and Concise Religion.
AT no time in the history of religion
has there been greater need Of a direct
and concise religion. The world moves
and acts quickly, and religion must
keep pace with it.-Rev. Dr. Holder,
Baptist, New York.
Needs of the Church.
What the church really needs today
is the spirit Of liberalty, exhibiting it.
self all the year round. Many church
members have not learned the blessed
ness of giving. The Bible always re-
CARDS it as spiritual exercise, as
much part Of worship as praise and
A. B. Philputt, Indian
apolis.
Study Present Situation.
Instead of laboring for a unity that
has never existed and never can exist
under present conditions we should
study present situations. There are
social problems. ghetto problems. Their
solution will be found not in sciences
Or legal enactments, but in a more
general application of the principles
IF humanity.-Rev. DR.. Roseman, He
Drew, Baltimore.
Hidden Wisdom of the Word.
To those only who are humble and |
desire to do the Lords will - mere |
Oabes in their own estimation because |
dependent wholly on the Lord for all |
they have to dO--these only see the |
hidden wisdom in the world. 1t is |
pest to know the very least possible |
about true life if man is bent upon
that life.-Rev. l.. G. Hoeck, |
Swedenborgian, Brooklyn.
The Faith of Israel.
1t is not Jesus, the Jew, who has |
llone died for the sins of men, but the
ace, whose martyred bones are scat
cred in all lands. The burdens that
lave bent the Jews back have made
lis soul stand erect. Today, when the
doctrines of the church are corrOding |
lnder the acid of criticism, the faith of
srael remains unshaken.-Rev. DR..
Hebrew, Denver.
Work and worship.
In this day, when we are so wont to
work more than worship,
When we are so likely to restrict pray !
II to it's mere uses of petition, when we
ire in want of religious experience,
when we are so apt to forget that fruit
illness in Christian service means close
of vine and branch, surely
is good to be reminded that spirit
lality is the root and source of all
greatness of thought and of life.-Rev.
Dr.. Dewey, Congregationalist, Brook
yn.
Gambling Worse Than War.
We talk about the horrors of war to-
hay, but worse than any carnage ever
cen on battlefield are the wreck and
IesolatiOn of hope and character
by gambling. Do not look at
he matter theoretically, but in the
anger vision of past human experience,
nd see it there condemned and damn
d. as by a law of God not written on
he sky or in the sky revealed, but on
arth through human life revealed
rev. DR.. David II. Greer. Episcopalian,
Jew York.
Warnings to the Young.
Some of the blunders of young peo-
lie are to rush into the arena of life
Without the best possible preparation
or the battle of the giants, especially
UGH as a good education would give;
D allow oneself to drift on and take
p business, trade or profession in a
aphazard way or to make choice of a
fe work without due consideration of
he question of fitness or adaptation;
lsane matrimonial alliances; short
uts to wealth especially yielding to
ne insane craze of gambling; living as
the making of money was the su-
rene thing Rev DR.. Polemus II.
wifi, Methodist, Chicago
The Christians Inheritance.
Recall to your mind, if you can, the
lost beautiful thing you have ever