The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-12-14
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned FroH the TeschIsgs
of All DENOMINATIONS.

iA61iONOOO NiNOO0IlN
Gems Cleaned FroH the TeachIsgs
of All Denominations.
The way a man spends the unoccu
pied hour tells what bis taste is.-Rev.
s. Edward Young, Presbyterian, Pitts
burg.
Courage.
There never was an Ideal man who
was not courageous. Life Is cease-
less conflict. and without courage no
one can live a manly life.-Rey. G. b
Vosburgh. Baptist. Denver.
Good Deeds.
Let US learn lesson from Christ's
heroic conduct. Let us never hesitate
to perform a good deed, even though
we foresee that 1t will involve US In
suffering and humiliation. 90 Cardinal
Gibbons, Roman Catholic. Baltimore
Parents and Children.
Responsibility brings strength. Ev-
cry day thank God for your children.
Keep young with them. Be interest
ell In their studies. so shall they
achieve the ambitions that you have
missed. -Rev. DIR. Newell Dwight Hill.
lis, Congrega tionallst. Brooklyn.
Double EnvIrOnmest.
Man ends himself In the midst OF q
double environment Of good and evil
and subjected 10 limitations. Yet who
can say how far he can go beyond APP
parent limitsy The Ideal we have to-
day is not the IDEAL OF yesterday Rev.
5. Kirk. Independent. Des MoInes. la.
Truth and Peace.
Peace Is the condition Of the discov-
cry Of all truth. OF the mastery OF all
power and Of the possession Of all hap
piness The man who wishes 10 dis
cover truth must be quiet. Peace Is
not to be discovered by the use OF mar
cotics. You can narcotize not only
your body. but your brain, your heart,
your soul. but this Is not the way to
peace.-Rev. n. J. Savage. Unitarian,
New York
sspreme reed.
One supreme need Of our lives 10
new strength for old burdens. Ii Ia
difficult 10 go ON with the old work
with enthusiasm after the novelty has
worn OF. when the glamour has dis
appeared and when the round Of the
days is one eternal treadmill. But the
old work must be done. The old bur
dens must be borne. We must bend
over the same old ledger. try to please
the same old cranky customers. We
must plunge sgain into the merciless
stream Of competition in tranic and
trade We must face tomorrow the
problem Of trying TO make ends meet.
We cannot escape it.-Rev. Poleuus IL.
swift. Methodist. Chicago.
Value OF Young Mes.
The hope OF the world centers In the
young man. II is recognized a. true
that the destiny OF any nation at any
given time depends upon the opinions
OF the young men who are under TWEEN
ty-five years OF age II the curses that
blight our land are to be removed. Il
great. pressing problems are TO be
solved, II intemperance aud its related
vices are to be bsnished. then a gen
GRAFTON OF sober, Industrious and vlr-
tuous young men must be raised up TO
accomplish this task. What causes
alarm at present IL the fact that
drunkenness. RIGHTEOUSNESS. idleness
aud the gambling spirit are demons
that are wrecking the young manhood
of our natlon.-Rev. Orrin r. jerks.
Christian Church. Chicago.
Character In sPeadiss.
Money is u power placed in the hands
OF the Individual for the purpose OF do
ing good, but with that power comes a
great responsibility. Men Of great
wealth are in danger OF becoming self
conferred. We may possess wealth
without being harmed morally when
the wealth which has been given into
our charge 10 used for the benedt NJ
others. But when we use wealth To
crafty our own selhsh desires our spir-
itual outlook becomes more narrow.
The character OF a man can he Judged
by the way be spends his money. and
the possession Of money affords an op-
portunlty for the development OF char
acter. The miser boards his wealth.
the spendthrift SQuanders IT, but the
true servant uses IL In way beneficial
to his fellowmen. Men become the
slaves OF money. living for Il and con-
trolled by It, We should avoid this
fault by making heavenly use Of the
mammon OF wealth. SO using money
that the life 30 come may he made
richer and the present life may he
made better ny its use.-Rev. T. G.
Lawrence. Baptist. Cleveland. q.
A Mans worth.
IL ia rather a dubious commentary
on our current ways Of thinking aud
estimating that when we ask how
much a man is worth we are not think
ing about his own worth At all, but
about the worth OF the things that he
Tugs around with him. Yet by the
Bible standard the worth OF a man IL
not calculated by the number Of his
things. but by the amount OF his abil-
ity to get along without things-that il.
by the amount OF his internal endow-
ment. / remember with a sadness that
has continued to this hour the last In
tavx-fox.r I hod NTH oiI frfanI MANY