The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-01-30

pies of morality and rcligiOn.-Rey. DR..
Beaton, Congregationalist, Chi
cage.
D~lessedness of Work.
Work is one of the most blessed things
in human life the JOY OF it to feel
that you are Il maker, a creator, that
you have some power to take the raw
materials Of the universe and work
them over into forms of use and beau
rian, New York.
reconciliation.
Gods forgiveness of the sinner leads
to reconciliation. Harmony between
God and man ONE instead of discord,
and variance no longer exists. All that
separated man and God passes away.
There is nothing more beautiful and
satisfying in the world than r%econcilia-
ton Rev. DR.. Wylie, Presbyterian,
New YC"k.
A Special Responsibility.
There is q special responsibility rest
ing on the well to Go classes in this
country. There may be some excuse
for the Pole, Bohemian or Greek to VIC
late our traditions, but there is none
for the American. Ii either class is to
indulge i'll Sunday games, it would bet
ter be the poor who have no breath Of
fresh air through the week.-Rev. w.
A. Bartlett, Congregationalist, Chicago.
A Sure Refuge.
In hours when the heart is burdened
with a consciousness of sin, when the
soul is overwhelmed by a vision of its
failures, when temptation is doing it's
dreadful work, when one sees before
him the black gulf OF despair, how
sweet the swords Of him who spake as
never maj spake, Him that cometh
unto me | will in nowise cast out
Rev. DIR. Polemus II. Swift, Methodist,
Chicago.
Living without Cod.
To live away from God is to have a
dissatisfied life. Life with God is JOY
and peace and rest. All the restless
ness, the feverishness, the diSSatiSfac-
ton, that characterize this age are due
to godlessness. There is no more god
lessness in the slums than there is in
! the suburbs, no more godlessness in the
penitentiaries than in the universities.
Godlessness is simply being without
God.-Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, Lon
don Evangelist, in Chicago.
Basis of Christian Unity.
There is but one Christian faith, and
the basis of unity therein is an intelli-
gent conception of Jesus Christ as the
Son of God. Who, then, is it that is
working best for real church unity? Is
it he who is continually harping upon
the differences in our church methods
or he who fearlessly proclaims the
Christ as the Son Of God, the Saviour
of the world? The only basis of unity
F., for the church of Christ is Christ
Rev. Charles Latta Chalfant, Presbyte-
rian, Atlanta. Ga.
Comnercialism In Religion.
Commercial and commercialism are
two different things. The one is legiti.
mate, the other harmful. When a mar
becomes a political leader and says he
is in it for the profit, we call it com
mercialism. When a church sets out
to attract the wealthy, it has taken VI
commercialism. A church of rich PEG
pie is no church at all. When a mar
gives ostentatiously and for some bene
fit he expects to receive, that is com
mercialism, but the world gapes an(
lauds his seeming generosity.-Dr. Fe
lix Adler, Ethical Culture, New York.
Smoothing His Pathway.
Every man should remember that hi
life will be the happier for making hab
its to be his allies. smoothing his path
way instead of enemies that heap III
barriers in the way. Whatever we d.
regularly we soon do easily and at las
} pleasurably. The full joy of ones worl
never comes until the working become
habitual, until the action is automati
!, and almost unconscious. When worl
has reached the stage when by Ion
practice it is habitual and automatic
: the hours of work become the hours Q
{ ones greatest happiness.-Rey. DR.. /
: N. Hills, Congregationalist. Brooklyn
The Sin OF Hypocrisy
| Hypocrisy is the most awful of a
: parental sins. No matter what the ia
tIer or mother may do, as long as til
child can firmly believe that his pal
ents are living consecrated, godly, pur
and noble lives that child is bound
the foot Of the cross with bands 9
d steel. but when the child believes tina
e his mother and father are leading hy1
ocriticaI lives. pretending one thing I
the world and living another kind 6
life at home, as a rule. there Is yer
little temporal or spiritual hope for tn
chiId.-Rev. DR.. Frank De Witt Ia
. mage, Presbyterian, Chicago.