The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-10-21
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations

world. 1t is the lever which lifts the
throne of the Almighty. No one can
hope to be faithful and not pray.-Rev.
DR.. George A. Hall, Baptist, Chicago
Overcoming Temptation.
Remember those who teach you have
suffered temptations, and the overcom-
ing of these temptations has made them
worthy of being spiritual guides.-Rev.
II. B. Chapman, Episcopalian, 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 for
your services with a pension of ever
lasting life.-Rev. NJ. c. Brooks, Meth
odist, Brooklyn.
Hopeful Signs.
1t is 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 G1orify Mankind
1t is not for the church to despair of
the race. For it Christ died, and for it
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. Lorimer, Baptist, New
York.
A False World.
We live in world of f1attering
hopes, false valuations and vain i'm
aginations. There is so much preten
sion In the world, there is so much diff
ference between what seems and what
Is, that our judgment Of men and things
often becomes 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 if 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.-Rev. DR.. A. II. Kaylor,
Presbyterian, Pittsburg
True Religion.
There is no argument against our re-
ligion. The one great argument is this
saying one thing and doing another
proclaiming 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 I'M
derstood her Child. To him she applied
the Messianic prophecies of her people
and pondered upon the whisperings in
her heart of his coming greatness.
When others turned away from him,
Mary. followed; when others were far
off, Mary was by his side. Motherhood
Is tmpelled by love, which, scorning
fear, is last at the cross and first at the
tomb.-Rev. H. R. Rose, Universalist,
Newark, N. J.
Christian Sanity.
Thorough Christian sanity manifests
itself in making the best and most of
things. Sanity says, How easily it
could have been worsev The best les
son Of Robinson Crusoe's lonely island
was that he was never in so bad a con-
dition that he could not easily see how
1t might have been worse Thorough
sanity looks at the good things we have
and rejoices in them rather than at
the things we do not have. If you
wish to be miserable, take a full cata-
logue of all the things you do not have.
If you would be happy, count your
blessings o'eS and o'er."-Rev. Dr. NJ.
l. Curl, Methodist, st. Louis.
Saving the Financial Barometer.
1t is not how much a man makes, but
how much he saves, that determines
his prosperity. The man who makes
100000 year, but saves nothing, is
poorer than the farm hand who makes
only $500, but saves 81 or S. or $40.
The net gain is the point. There are
men so extravagant. SO improvident,
that the Vanderbilt system could not
supply them with pocket change II
they were to receive the gross earnings
Of all the lines operated by the Penn
sylvania company they would still be
hard up and in debt. The workingman
known as Goal Oil Johnny" suddenly
enriched, found 100000 year a mig
gardly allowance. His fortune of $780,
100000 lasted him five years. The true
financial barometer is not salary, but
savings-Rev. DR.. John Merritte Driv-
er, Peoples Church, Chicago
The Only Panacea.
If Christ had come in the clouds of
heaven in great splendor and glory and
only shown himself to the wondering
world we would still be without an
answer to this great question. But he
did not. He came in lowly guise to
live a suffering life and die shameful
death. He has told us nothing about