News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-15

sell uenldl always uedlS progress.
1t takes the one who practices it from
lower to a higher plane.-Rev. DR.. j.
N. Beard, President San Francisco Ma.
tional Training School.
Hope For Something Better.
The man who lives without ambition
or without the hope of making some
thing better out of his life is practically
dead.-Rev. DR.. Frank De Witt Tai
mage, Presbyterian, Chicago.
Religion and citizenship.
If Christians were better citizens,
the gospel might have chance. The
sentiment of sermons and gospel meet
ings should be carried to the polls
Rev. DR.. Bacon, indianapolis, Ind.
Burden Makers.
Every worthless man increases the
weight of the worlds sorrow. Every
selfish man adds to the pressure of the
worlds misery.-Rev. DR.. Donald Sage
Mackay, Reformed Church, New York
Destiny of the Race.
The destiny of the race depends up
on what men love and what they know
and not upon the kind of fruit the first
individual man or woman may have
eaten.-Rev. Adolph ROeder, Sweden
borgian, Orange, N. ].
The Most Useless Thing.
The most useless thing in all this
world is doubt. 1t has left a path of
desolation through all history. 1t
ms hnrnac wins ho ftlnc
ties no contests, builds no empires.
Conviction does. Believe your belief
and doubt your doubts.-Rev. DR..
Sneed, Presbyterian, Pittsburg.
Temptations of College Life.
Men speak about the temptations of
college life as if there were no tempta-
tons in business, as if the banker and
broker lived in a boiler atmosphere and
as if the apostle of Wall street were
in closer touch with the Ten Command
ments than other men.-Rev. DR.. Pat
ton to Students of Princeton Univer-
sity.
Supremacy of Christ.
Among the changes taking place in
the political, social and literary world,
while the leaders of the past are rele-
gated to the rear and those whom our
fathers honored are deSpised by their
sons, Christ steadily holds his grip
on the lives Of men and women every
where.-Rev. N. R. Kinds, Methodist,
Chicago.
Spiritual Triumph of Christ.
The spiritual triumph of Christ over
the interior being of humanity is much
more wonderful and deep than the in
duence of his religion over the stand
ards Of art, literature, civics or social
intercourse. Jealous lovers of Chris
tianity ought to keep this in mind when
they are fearful of the spread of mod
ern unbelief and indifferentism.-Rev
Henry O'Keefe, Catholic, San Fran
cisco.
Ethics without Doctrine.
The popular cry is for the ethics
of Christ without his doctrinal state
ments. That means to stop at the al
phabet of Christianity. Such a lack
of ambition will result either in I'M
happiness, because we have not given
the soul the supply it must have, or in
inconsistency of life, because it leaves
US in ignorance of the orders under
which we are processing to sail.-Bish-
op Cheney, Episcopalian, Chicago,
Standard of Religious Faith.
AS the ages run on the authority of
Jesus becomes more and more the final
normal standard of religious faith.
The world is steadily losing satisfac-
ton in the oracles of philosophers and
in the doctrines of dogmatists; hence
creeds and councils are of lighter
weight than ever they have been in
Christian times. Bold and blatant I'M
belief is neither louder nor as loud in
its assertions as it once was.-Rev. ].
L. Withrow, Congregationalist Bos'
ton.
Demands of the World.
When you try to suit the church to
the demands of the world, you will
end in its entire destruction as force
of good and righteousness. You will
find the real underlying objection that
many have to the church is that it for
bids life of sin. Some seem to have
the idea that the church should relieve
men of all labor; that it should make
life one continual picnic and holiday;
that it should refuse the satisfaction
of no desire.-Rev. J. w. Romich,
Lutheran, Allegheny City, Pa.
The Divine Authority.
The divine authority of Jesus Christ
distinctly prohibits any modern Josh
ia from killing his way into any mod
ern Canaan, and if the world deems
necessary such things as are being
done in South Africa and the Philip
pines it has no right to claim any
Christian sanction for the enterprises
and the methods employed. The only
point we are just now making is that,
granting that the brute policy is neces-
sary and therefore right we cannot
put Christ's name to it. - Rev. DR..
Charles II. Parkhurst, Presbyterian,
New York.