The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-12-31
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
Of All Denominations.

WudI II - " GuJOy Eilu.--IGtV. ~. L.
Chalfant, Presbyterian, st. Louis.
Christianity and Immortality.
They who accept Christ as their Mas
ter and Saviour make no question Of the
endless life. Christianity and immortal
life are inseparably bound together.
Rev. DR.. James E. Stone, Episcopalian,
Chicago
Warrant of Our Faith.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ from
| the dead is the supreme warrant of our
| faith in hirn as the image Of the invisi-
ole God The church has also found in
| that resurrection her charter If Christ
| is not risen the whole Christian theory
of life collapses, and the fruits of that
theory sre illogical and it's hopes fac
tious. Rev. NJ W. Stryker, Presbyte-
| rian, Clinton, n. Y.
Purchase of Redemption.
Adam fell, and sin came Redemp-
ton was purchased by slain Jesus
| and risen Lord and we now each
| week celebrate his day of resurrection
in combination with worship Of God.
who commanded, and the world was,
and who showed his supreme love for
man in sacrificing for our redemption
Christ, his son, in whom he was well
pleased. Rev. A. J. Henry, Congrega-
tionalist, Brooklyn.
Complete Surrender to God.
There is no life comparable to that
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The height depth and breadth of the
| love and joy of life where God rules
| can never be known except when we
have consecrated ourselves to God
Our wills, notions, thoughts and fears
must be put on Gods altar and let him
dispose of them all and of us before we
can know the joy Of salvation Rev
| DR.. Alonzo Monk. Methodist, Atlanta.
| Ga.
Christianity Stands the Test.
Experience is the great teacher, and
experiment is the great test. To its
| Judgment seat all theories must come
at last And the glory of the doctrine
Of Jesus Christ is this, that it stands
, the strain. 1t leaves no room for DOUBT
as to it's affording a clew to the myster-
les Of life. 1t is its own justification. A
man has but to live it to know with an
unshakable assurance that God is what
Jesus said he was and that life is
what he says it is.--Rev. Charles Fred
eric Goss, Presbyterian, Cincinnati
The Highest Degree of Liberty.
God calls to men in his MESSAGE to
forsake the slavery Of sin and be free
! In conformity to the divine law man
finds his freedom and safety. Civil
laws are the bulWarks of liberty Man
is safe when in harmony with the law
of the land. The highest degree Of lib
erty is found in the kingdom of God.
/ The eagles natural home is in the blue
sky among the highest mountain peaks.
Here it is free. The true sphere of
. mans spiritual being is above the
world and It's sin and in the liberty di-
yinely given.--Rev. j. E. Mcdonald
Methodist, st. Louis.
The Bread of Life.
In the Lords prayer we are taught ia
ask, Give Us this day our daily bread, .
and we are justified in a material in
depreciation Of this human request as
much as III q spiritual sense But we
are wrong if we place SO small a her
ION about our lives and give no atten
ton to the words Of Christ, MAN shall
not live by bread alone, but by every
word that proceedeth out of the mouth
, of Cod" We place ourselves by the
side of the Pharisees, of whom it was
spoken, Woe unto you, Pharisees, for
We 1.-THE mint and rue and all manner
Of herbs and pass over judgment and
the love of God; these We ought to lave
done and not to leave the other I'm
done Rev. Alfred w. FL. Holder
Baptist, New York.
University OF Gods Love.
Who are we to presume to fix the
bounds of Gods love and truth? When
we bring to the temple of immensely
| our little measures of fellowship, our
small saving schemes and sectarian
gauges, our microscopic measure of
Christian or pagan, Catholic or Pres
byterian, how our certainties fade into
the high agnosticism of the psalmist
Such knowledge is too wonderful for
me. 1t is high. cannot attain unto
it," And still the thought remains that
this dust that we are has been ground
in the mills Of eternity, that this
breath of life that is ours is allied to
the spirit of the universe, that indeed
the Lord of life did breathe into our
finite nostrils his own spirit. Rev.
Jenkin Boyd Jones, Independent, Chi
cago
Earthly and Heavenly Greatness,
From worldly standpoint it is al
most impossible to compare the indu-
ences of different lives and to posi-
lively ind out which one is the great
er. s'Who has done the most for his
country, Washington or Lincoln:e
who was the father Of the most
brains, John Adams or Lyman Beech
er?' (Which was the greater, Caesar
or Napoleon?" are themes that will al
ways be argued resultlessly. But,
though we cannot tell who is the r- at
er in a worldly sense, we do know that