The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-02-17
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teaching,
of All Determinations

Gems Cleaned From the Teachiprs
of All Determinations.
Whatever lifts your own spirit into
the divine atmosphere Of forgiveness
M fo%rbearance is the perpetuatlon of
the gospel.-Rev. J. A. Ronthaler, Pres
byterian, Indianapolis, Ind.
Religion Of Humanity.
Mans first concern should be his
brothers interest, for In the success of
humanity lies the individual success.
Nothing can stand unless organization
becomes its law.-Rev. f. e. Mason.
Spiritualist. Brooklyn.
The Law Of Right.
Men have travelled all over the CIV
ilized world without knowing the laws
of the particular state that they might
enter, and there is never a need for
knowledge Of the law, so far as the
knowledge Of personal liberty is con-
cerned, if the individual has the spirit
of equity and fair play. Rev. Or.
Crafts, Washington.
Power of G~entleness.
We do not read of Jesus Christ as q
man with a giant arm and a mighty
shoulder. But who can measure the
length and breadth, the depth, of the
power Of that magnificent personality?
He was bone, flesh and sinew. Yet in
him was God. He revealed the power
of God and sent it down the ages
Rev. B. F. Root, Congregationalist,
Waterbury, Conn.
Compassion.
Joseph in Egypt had this pity for his
brethren who came from their father,
Jacob, in Canaan during the famine.
Although his brethren had sold him
into slavery, yet he forgave them, and
the divine nature in Joseph prompted
his pity for them. His bowels did
yearn over his brethren, and he sought
where he might weep" This compass
sion for humanity. is one Of the most
Christ like virtues in any individual or
nation.-Rev. Warren G.. Partridge,
Pittsburg.
Live Your Faith.
In the liberal church Christianity Ia
not a transaction nor q system Of de-
crees, but a life and a way to more
abundant life. Said Jesus, "Not ev-
cry n that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
but be that doeth the will Of my Fa-
ther." We are not subjects, but chill
dren; not merely governed, but nur-
tured. Our rewards and punishments
are not DEGREES, but results. Saliva
lion is absolutely a personal matter be-
tween the human soul and God. It is a
life, at n with the divine life.-Rev.
Minot Simons, Unitarian, Cleveland.
The Mercy of God.
God can afford to wait. One day
with him is as a thousand years. God
never loses his temper. II we could
see what he sees, if roofs could be lift
ed from houses and wells from human
hearts and we could see all the sin
and shame and %rottenness Of the world,
we would cry, Burn up the world, o
Lord, for it is not worth the saving"
But he has been seeing 1t all these CEN
turtles, and yet he spares it-spares 1t
until every means is tried and every
resource exhausted. He Is a God Of
infinite pity and infinite patience
Rev. r. B. Garritt, Baptist, Ports
mouth, Va.
Unity Of Home.
But there is another unity In which
man finds himself, a unity very won
derful and very real. The material uni
verse is more than an abode for Gods
children. It is indeed our home for the
years in which we stay here. A man
learns to love his home. Its very tim
bers out Of the wall speak to him Of
childhood and youth. Ancestral memo.
ries are treasured in its various parts,
and the very light Of day seems sof-
tened and domesticated in It's alcoves
and corridors. Home is q beautiful
world to M who has felt the hlial and
fraternal bond.-Rev. Charles s. Ohm
sted, E%piscopolian, Denver.
Transforming Power Of Eae.t.
Il found the crown of France In the
gutter" said Napoleon, "and I picked
it up on the point Of my sword" Il
found an empire buried in the wilder
ness" says America, and l dug it out
with ak and p~lowshare." The sword
was indeed beaten into a plowshare,
and the wilderness was made to bios
som like the rose. The forest bowed
and fell beneath sturdy strokes, the
mountains echoed the scream Of steam
and yielded to the miners pick their
treasures, and the infinite wastes Of
prairie, watered by the sweat Of toll,
became the granary Of mankind.-Rab-
bi Leon Harrison, Hebrew, st. Louis.
Japan and Christianity.
II we are able to discern by taking a
long enough perspective the hand Of
God in the events of human history
and to regard all of them, both secular
and religious, so called, as within the
scope of the divine care, it must be
true that God, who changes not, still
ought to be recognized as the master
force in events Of this present day.
Take, for instance, the great oriental
struggle, in which there stands that
old sixteenth century Christianity hid
ing behind its icons, worshiping them
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