The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20

to my own private opinions OF such
matters. but to promote Christianity we
must recognize the brotherhood of man.
Bishop Henry G. Potter, Episcopalian,
New York.
The Only Way.
There is but one way for us to come
under the power Of Christ, with all
that means for our ennOblement, the
realization of our hottest aspirations,
and that is to com under the power
of the cross. To believe that for the
love of us Christ died is to come under
the constraints Of love.-Rev. DR.. Ray
mond, President Union College, Sche-
nectady, n. Y.
Kinship of God and Man.
God and MAI always were kin, but
ne;cr till God displayed himself in
Jesus, showing what he really was in
his deepest eternal nature, never till
then did man believe it, and too many
fail to do that now. Like Ezekiel, they
are afraid to accept the happy fact
that God is as good as Jesus and al
ways has been and always will be-
Rev. DR.. Camden M. Coburn, Metho-
dist, Chicago.
What heaven Ia.
To the prisoner heaven is freedom.
To the wanderer it is his fathers
house. To the ignorant it is learning.
To this poor, lame boy, to that weak,
deformed girl, it is the rowing free
through limitless existence. TO the
slave it is a world without labor. To
the weary it is rest. 10 the sanguine
it is action. 10 the doubtful it is
truth. TO the struggling it is peace.
To the sick it is health.-Rev. Edward
Everett Hale, Unitarian, Boston.
SIMS Hold on Man.
Men say to me, Il have never COM
mitted any great sin" OF course not.
Do you suppose the devil is going to
strand of rope will do as well? The
little sins are just as damning. The
Arab of the desert pitches his tent for
the night and prepares for rest. Does
he throw his camel on the sand and tie
its four feet to prevent it from running
away? No. indeed. He slips a thin
rope about n leg, fastens the other
end around the animals neck and re-
tires to rest confident that the camel
will not get away while he sleeps. So
the devil ties a string around your neck
and holds the other end.-Rev. DR.. W.
w. Weeks, Baptist, Toronto.
The Uses of Wealth.
If money is used to develop a man in.
stead of a man being used to make
money, it is a good thing. If money
brings independence, assists the needy,
advances civilization, spreads the COS
pel's glad evangel. then money is prop
erly used, but when money becomes, as
it sometimes does, an e%xtinguisher or
the brain, cutting its possessor off from
mental illumination, then it is a curse
When money blunts the moral sense
and disqualifies for keen discernmenI
between right and wrong, when it sti
hes religious impulse and dwarfs the
soul, then it need lot be wondered al
that Christ, said scarcely shall a ricl
man enter into heaven.-Rev. DR.. Charlie!
Bayard Mitchell. Methodist, Cleveland.
Reaping the Harvest.
The harvest gathered is ever large
than the seed wv He who sow
sparingly reaps sparingly; he who sow
bountifully reaps bountifully. For ex
ample, a man sows the love Of money
What does he reap-dollars and cents
Probably. But n thing he does reap
an intensifying love of money. AS th'
growth is ever larger than the germ, b
grows fonder and fonder of money. /
is not to be wondered at if he grow
covetous, becomes more and NOR
grasping, grinding. Nor need we Won
der if we see him grow miserly unit
the habit of miserliness is ever becom
ing more and more confirmed. What j
: true of c~ovetousness and avarice !
also true of intemperance, incidence
skepticism and the whole train Of mo-
al evils.-Rev. DR.. William G.. Stinsor
Reformed, New York.