News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1904-11-02
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.

Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
Faith is the tie that binds all rela-
| tionships, and the man who can
| strengthen this tie is the representa-
tive of heaven.-Rev. DR.. w. j. vii.
hanson, Baptist. st, Louis.
The Greatest Book.
| The Bible is still the greatest book of
| religion that we possess The work of
our great scholars, as our own expert
ences, is making this more apparent
continually G. X. Jones. Unita-
rian, Los Angeles, Cal.
Opportunities For the Church.
If Christ We're to look over our land
think he would say that the church is
today confronted with greater and
grander opportunities than eyer before
in it's historys%itev. Dr. J. oKIoss SteveSl
son. Presbyterian, New York
Helping Humanity.
With hands full of helpful charity
| with a word in season to him that ia
weary. with heart at leisure from it,
self to soothe and sympathize. we are
sent to bring ourselves into contac.
with humanity at the point of need
Rev. r. j. Vilers, Baptist, Indianap
oils.
The Mystery of Religion.
While we try to think clearly we are
learning the weakness of the rational
powers. Dogma is losing its authority
over us. The passion for defniteness is
giving way to the sense of mystery over
us and in us. In religion. as in art, the
beauty and power of it lie often in the
vagueness of it. Extreme of definition
kils.-Rev. jeremiah Cromer, Congre-
gationalist, St Louis.
The Acceptance of Truth.
The believer in the universally of
law may be grateful for all the good
that comes to him from the divine or
der, just as the graduate realizes in
later life the depth of bla obliga ton to
his university. In the same way all
other religious emotions will survive
the acceptance of truth, whatever that
truth may be.-Rev. DR.. G. r. Dodson,
Universalist. st. Louis
Christian Reproduction.
What we SOW we reap. Character
reproduces itself in life. Grapes do
not bring forth thorns; tares do not
produce wheat. If you want character
you must pay the price for it. Sowing
love, you shall reap love. Sowing hon
or and truth, honor and truth you will
reap. Therefore, the punishment is not
imposed by God from without, but is
imposed by the soul from within.-Rev.
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, Congrega-
tionalist, Brooklyn.
Goodness Through Fear.
There is a class of people who try
TO do good from fear. They are in
stilled with a terrible dread of the con-
sequences of the hereafter and do their
level best to do good. But | will state
candidly that there is nothing to fear.
God is too merciful, kind. just and
good, but still man will go on day by
day living in mortal dread. He isn't
good because he wants to be, but mere
ly to escape the punishment that he is
told will be melted out to him.-Rev. DR..
Thomas II. Slicer, Unitarian, New
York.
God In Present Tense.
The reason trouble is so troublesome
is that we seldom put God in the pres
ent tense. We transpose him into the
dim past and dwell upon the wonders
he wrought in the days of the fathers.
We transpose him into the remote fu-
ture and dream of the glories which
shall be ours when all the wells which
now hide him shall be lifted. Christ's
cure for trouble is to live with God be-
side us in our everyday experiences;
to take God to the office, a partner in
our business; to take God to the parlor,
sharer in our pleasures.-Rev. How
ard Dutiield, Presbyterian, New York.