Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-11-11
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teaching
of ALI Denominations


hope to be faithful and not pray.-Rey
DIR. George A. Hall, Baptist, Chicago.
Overcoming Temptation.
Remember those who teach you havv
suffered temptations, and the overcom
Ing of these temptations has made then
worthy Of being spiritual guldes.-Rev
II. Il. Chapman, Eplscopalian, New
York.
Loyalty and Reward.
Be patriotic, be loyal to your country
loyal TO your race and loyal to your
selves and you will be rewarded fol
your services with pension of ever
lasting life.-Rev. NJ. c. Brooks, Meth
odist, Brooklyn.
Hopeful Signs.
1t Is a splendid and hopeful sign OF
the religious life of our day that men
are longing again for those truths that
are spiritually discerned. The mate.
rial phenomena of Christianity are not
uppermost in human thought today
Rev. W. L. Dawson, Episcopalian,
Brooklyn.
To Glorify Mankind.
1t is not for the church to despair Of
the race. For 1t Christ died, and for 1t
all things move divinely, and by and
by darkness. despair and desperation
shall be swallowed up in the light, love
and life which shall glorify mankind at
last-Rev. G. G. LOrlmer, Baptist, New
York.
A False World.
We live in q world of fattering
hopes, false valuations and vain i'm
aginations. There is so much preten-
sion in the world, there is 80 much diff
ference between what seems and what
is, that our judgment of men and things
often be comes confused. -Rev. Daniel
Dorchester, Methodist, Allegheny, Pa.
The Final Reward.
No man escapes opposition, detrac-
ton, calumny, hatred, persecution, who
everywhere and at all times seeks first
the kingdom of God and his righteous
ness. But II we suffer with Christ we
shall reign with him. After the cross
the crown; after the sobbing and the
signing shall come the music of peace
and gladness.-Re DR.. A. II. Kaylor,
Pittsburg.
True Religion.
There is no argument against our re-
ligiOn. The one great argument is this
saying one thing and doing another
these high truths, coming
close TO this altar where Jesus lives
and loves, and then going forth to en-
gage in corrupt politics, degraded and |
sensual life, In bitterness and hatred |
and fraud and deception. - Bishop |
Spalding. Roman Catholic, Peoria, Ill.
The Mother of Jesus.
Mary. the mother of Jesus, never un-
lerstood her Child. To him she applied |
he Messlanic prophecies of her people |
Ind pOndered upon the whisperings in
Ter heart of his coming greatness.
When others turned away from him,
Nary followed; when others were far
IF, Mary was by his side. Motherhood
S impelled by love, which, scorning
ear Is last at the cross and first ut the
omb.--Rev. II. r. Rose, Universalist,
Newark, N. ].
Christian Sanity.
Thorough Christian sanity manifests
tself in making the best and most of
hings. Sanity says, How easily II
Ould have been worsew The best les.
on of Robinson Crusoe's lonely island
vas that he was never In 30 bad a con-
ltion that he could not easily see how
might have been worse. Thorough
lnity looks at the good things we have
nd rejoices in them rather than at
ne things we do not have. II you
ish to be miserable. take a full cata-
que of all the things you do not have.
you would be happy, count your
essings DER and o'er."-Rev. DR.. NJ.
. Curl. Methodist. st. Louis.
Saving the Financial barometer
1t Is not how much man makes, Jut
NV much he saves, that determines
S prosperity. The man who makes
100000 a year, but saves nothing, Is
'orer than the farm hand who makes
lily 500, but saves 81 or s. or $40.
ne net gain is the point. There are
en- so extravagant, so improvident,
at the Vanderbilt system could not
pply them with pocket change. II
ey were to receive the gross earnings
all the lines operated by the Penn
lvania company they would still be
I'd up and In debt. The wOrkingman
own as Goal OIL Johnny" suddenly
riched, found $6.00O.OO0 year n mig.
rdly allowance. His fortune Of $780,
1000 lasted him five years The true
ancial barometer is not salary, but
DR.. John Merrltte Drlv- II
Peoples Church, Chicago.
The Only Panacea.
I Christ had come in the clouds OF &
lven in great splendor and glory and {
~ shown himself to the wondering B
rid we would still be without an h
swer to this great question. But he Il
not. He came In lowly gulse to E.
Q a suffering life and die a shameful n
18th. He has told us nothing about K
mystery of pain save that he has {!
'ught God into 1t, and we read the Is
c Of God in the "tears of things"
) need this Christ today. The phrase
lex to Christ is often used not only d
man In the pulpit, but by the man n
the street. Back to Christ by all n
ans, but let 1t be to the Christ of
vary, who has become the Christ OF b
'erience The one and only panacea
the sin and sorrow of the world Is a
be found in him, and wherever we 81
&C entered into the fellowship OF the d
50 the love of God becomes beauti e
and glorious experience, one Of pc
ar intimacy which every man real
for himself-not the world in gen
and that only, but every individual n
!, as though he were a world in him b
because the disciple whom Jesu' ID
,d.-Rev. DR.. Reginald John Camp U