Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-12-05
RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS.


his fret idea Of womanhood from
home associations Rev. +. J. Van
Horn, Congregationalist Worcester,
Mass.
Eternal verities---we are in a
changing, failing world. The eternal
vcrities are faith, hope. love. These
abide when all else ccsses.-Rov. r..
3. lie Bow. Episcopalian, Philadel.
phia, Pa.
Popular Novels--Books are also of.
ten open gates to hell. and many OF
the popular novels of the day, which
strike at the Bible and the church.
should be burned. Rev. A. c. Dixon,
baptist. Roxbury. Mass
p--Our relationship with
God Is that of the purcs, sweetest
friendship" unfettered by the bonds
of unregonerate natures. consummat.
cd IN the ties OF sweetest love.--Rev.
). T. Anderson. Baptist, Landsdowne,
IA
Club life--Club life tends to break
the unity of home life at deeper
points The woman seeks her intel
iectual interests at her club. the hus-
hand finds his chiefly in the com.
panionship OF men. Rev. a. a. White.
Uniyersalist. Chicago
Greed.--Ihere are men so lost to
every good impulse that now they Kill
for the sake of killing. and acquire for
the sake OF acquisition. Greed has be-
come passion.--Rev. N. ID. Hills,
Congregatlonalist, Brooklyn, n. Y.
The Greatest Bock--1he Bible is
still the greatest book Of religion that
We possess. I'he work OF our scholars
as our own experiences, is making
tDis more apparent continually Rev.
G. X. Jones, Unitarian, Los Angeles,
california.
Forgetting the Past--Our rich men.
in the time of prosperity forget all
the bright, sweet things that in the
days Of their hopes and struggles they
had vowed 70 90. We have too many
that scorn the steps by which they
rise Rev. T. A. OFT, Independent,
Chicago
Love and arriage--Marriage is a
soul union, and is made by no civil or
religious ceremony. It is union of
heaven, the loss OF self in another,
and canno he annuled except by the
breaking o. the oond which consti-
tutes it--lovc. 49, Rev. Il. /. Power. Dis
ciple. Louisville, Ky
Spirit Messenger-l can not believe
that any human being mas power to
call the spirits OF the faithful back
from Paradise at will for trivial pur-
poses but | can believe Il possible
tia, God may send them as messen-
gers and make them minister TO out
necessities.-Rev.E Z. Mutual, Episco.
palian, Brooklyn, n Y.
Slander--Of all human vultures, the
slanderer is the most vile. The vul-
ture is an unclean bird; the slanderer
is an unclean being, even though he
dresses In purple and fine linen and
fares sumptuously every day.--Rey.
J. NJ. Markley, Congregationalist, Den
yer, Colo.
prUnkenness.--Beca men drink,
their wives and daughters are
compelled to work In factories in or
der TO gain a livelihood. More people
were lynched last year than were ex-
ecuted by the states. and lynchings
are bred in commemorative G. N.
Howard, Bapust. Rochester, n. Y.
visions-Men OF great achievement
must always be men oil large visions.
The ideal must ever precede the real,
and the man VINO would achieve great
things must not ne disobedient to the
heavenly visions which are always
falling athwart his pathway-Rev. A.
G. smither Disciple, Los Angeles,
Cal.
Spiritual Graee--Death, doubtless Is
time of the sloughing of OF many
bodily temptations, but for souls
renC @al a direct, positive, inward,
spir.tuai grace is needed, and tGe
mere dissolution Ca the body is not
necessarily sacrament conveying
and containing this grace.--Rev A..
u. kinsolving, Episcopalian, Brooklyn,
N Y.
The Church Today---The church
should strive for all classes and con
disiOns. regardless OF color, caste or
condition. Some churches are like
Pthe'h WI a ~ ut nfd ut Ia
yored ones get In and are saved the
masses are sinking in the ocean of
death.-Rey Ray Palmer, Baptist,
Chilicothe. Mo.
The Old and New-Whatever IL be.
the old is always tiresome only the
new Is interesting. To the naturalist
the world retains its fascination, al
though an old world, because OF the
deeper entrance he day by day gains
into that word and the ever fresh
disclosures OF newly discovered won
derfulness and beauty that she there.
by makes over 10 him.-Rev. c. II
Parkhurst Presbyterian, New York
city
Observation-Disclosures Is pre-emi
nently a training Of the mind. The
value OF 1t is not what you carry IN
your memory at any moment II is
the power you have 10 analyZe logic
ally ana TO solve correctly any ordin
airy problem OF science. history litera
ture. politics or business.-Rev w. ID
Chrpstiike--i.et the mind that waf
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