, 1903-07-01
THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.

Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
Let me tell you it is too often not a
perplexed intellect, but q bad heart,
that keeps men from Christ.-Rev. DR..
Nv. w. Landrum. Baptist, Atlanta, Ga.
Success In Life.
To be %steadfast and faithful is by no
means to be confused with being sue
cessful. 1t is not the grandest thing in
life to be successful.-Rey. DIR. John L.
NJ. Johnston, Baptist, st. Louis.
Sincerity the Test.
1t does not make q man q Christian
just because he attends church regular
ly, reads the Bible and mumbles a few
prayers. He must be sincere in all he
does.-Rev. w. S. Rainsford, Episco-
palian, New York.
The March of Civilization.
The world is not outgrowing Christ.
Religious traditions may try to un-
Christ the centuries, but he still asserts
his divinity in the march of civilization.
Rev. F. G. Bremmer, Methodist, Nor
NAL Park, Ill.
God In History.
SliduCt oOCb nOI luio lnC WOlid.
There is a supernatural as we'll as a
natural element among the forces that
have operated to build up national life.
Providence in history means God at
work for the good of the entire race
Rev. DR.. Polemus II. Swift, Methodist,
Chicago.
Cannot Take God Away.
Co111honrIc onna q cly0d hiS friQnd nnf-
colus, "Why are you always smiling?"
TO this the other replied, Because no
one can take my God from me-" We
rejoice in this our quiet confidence i'll
God, which secures to us a settled past
and a glorious future.-Rev. DR.. John
Lloyd Lee. Presbyterian, New York.
of Puritan Teachings.
We may say what we choose in ridi-
cule or contempt of the mechanical side
of Puritan training as it shows itself in
the traditions. What you and 1 know is
that enough of them lived to Gods glo-
ry to give a moral element to the whole
legislation of the infant state and that
the hopeful element that we now call
public spirit was the dominant element.
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale, Uni
tartan, Boston.
Foundation of True Nobility.
Jesus said, "Whosoever would be-
come great among you shall be your
minister" The foundation of the true
nobility of America is service. The
faithful teacher, the honorable bust
ness man, the #~incorruptible statesman,
the faithful mother who brings up her
children in the love of patriotism and
Observation-Disclosures are the true mobiles
of our republic.-Rev. Herbert s.. john
son, Baptist, Boston.
Material Aspect of heaven.
We must also get out of the notion
that matter is sinful in itself. God pro-
nounced the world good. The body,
fearfully and wonderfully made, is the
masterpiece of creative wisdom III
love. Human folks go to a heaven
which is just as material as earth and
find themselves as much at home with
each other in the many mansions above
as in the many dwelling places below.
Bishop Samuel Fallows, E~piscopalian,
Chicago.
The COmpIetest Evidence.
Many professed Christians look upon
the Saviour merely as a religious lead
er, a great teacher or thinker, a philos-
opher, a physician, a philanthropist-a
man, without ever realizing his God
head. The proof of Christ's divinity
rests principally on the fact of his self
resurrection. The gospel today shows
the triumph of this truth over skep-
ticism. Doubt is conquered by COM
pletest evidence.-Rev. Thomas e. Cox,
Catholic, Chicago.
High Minds Akin to Immortality.
Above all live as though you were
immortal, and your doubts about i'm
mortality will largely vanish. If a man
lives the animals life it isn't strange if
he counts on the animals death, but if
he lives the spiritual life he will find it
impossible to make up his mind that
the grave ends all. Keep the windows
of your SOU looking heavenward and
keep them clean, and the lights of i'm
mortality will stream into your life
Rev. DR.. Baker, Presbyterian, Philadel-
phia.
Higher
The higher manhood is but complete
manhood; nothing eliminated or up
pressed. There is room for the phys
ical, and it must be sound, sinewy,
athletic. Spirit, soul and body consti-
tute a holy trinity, neither complete
without the other. We do not admire,
We cannot use, a weak, pale, enact
ated, deformed body in the highest
service. If the blood that is poured
into the brain cells is sickly and i'm
pure the thoughts will be muddy and
envenomed. If the. body is allowed
to be full of sickly humors the heart
and conscience will be defiled. Do not
strike off; do not exacerbate; do not
extirpate. There are room and a work
for all bodily organs and a%ptitudes.
Christianity does not mangle men; it
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