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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teaehings
Of All Determinations.
Christ came into the world not to tell
ms what Is right, but to give to our
right doing the right fiavor--Rev. DR..
Frank Crane, Unitarian. Worcester,
Mass.
Society today is organized along In
dustrial lines, and it is In large meas
ure along industrial lines that the So
luton of it's problems must come
Rev. Willard B. Thorp, COngrc ;ation-
alist, Chicago.
saeranental Point of View.
All things about us, all phenomena,
even capital and labor and its conten-
lions. can be considered from the sac
ramental point Of view and spiritual
lessons drawn from them.-Rev. I. +.
Seymour. Episcopalian, Peoria, I'LL
Optfmisn In RELIGION.
The spirit Of optimism is sOftening
the asperities Of religion, civilixing the
human idea and supporting God, rob
bling the grave OF its terrors, relieving
life of many of its burdens and teaching
all to see good in everything.-Rev. DR..
]. E. Roberts, Church Of This World.
Kansas City, Mo.
Value Of Obedience.
The parent who does not compel his
child to respect and obey him commits
a sin In the sight of God and must suf-
fer the consequences. The child that u
not taught the lesson of obedience to
his parents will become a nuisance In
society and a curse to the wOrld--Rev.
A r. HOlderby. Methodist, Atlanta,
Ga.
America and Liberty.
When labor is free and when capital
Is free, when combinations on either
size are put down by an aroused public
opinion and equality Of rights for all
men is established in the social and
Industrial realm, then, and not till then,
shall liberty in America attain its per-
feet development.-Rev. DR.. w. W.
Boyd. Baptist, st. Louis.
Value of . Devoted Friend.
A poor man may he said to be rich
he enjoys the interior sunshine Of a<'
devoted friend The wealthiest of men.
on the contrary, Is poor and miserable
If he has no friend whom he can grasp
by the hand and to whom he can dis
close the secrets OF his heart.-Cardi2al
James Gibbons, Roman Catholic, Bal
timOre.
Search For the Truth.
Church organizations are necessity
for the maintenance Of worship and the
of religious teaching, but
a church organization should never be
used to bring any pressure to bear d.
rectly or indirectly upon any man to
hinder him In his honest search for
truth or in his honest expression Of
what he believes to be the truth.-Rev.
g. A. Kratzer. Universalist, Fitchburg,
Mass
Making the Best Of Things.
You never make the best of thinEA
until you make the best out of things
or, better still, until you make things
the best-Rev. Frank NewhaH White,
Congregationalist, Chicago.
Expressions Of GSatit.de.
High thinking. noble living, humble
for the true Hfe-these are
the expressions of gratitude that are
most pleasing to God. In them is the
hope Of the natiOn--Rabbi Stern.
Music of Our Lives.
Lies music is never In the white
keys nor black, but in the soul that
sweeps them with skilled fingers Rail
not at the keys, but grid your soul to
TIE divine mastery.-Rev. Gardiner S.
Eldridge, Methodist, Brooklyn.
Church's Strength.
The strength of the church is not
merely in the foundation. 1t is in the
not merely i'll the grav-
lty of faith which holds the building to
the ground. but in the cohesion of love,
which binds its parts together-Rev.
Dr.. Harry p. Dewey, Episcopalian,
New York
Definition of Religion.
Religion is not slippered, cushionedA
clustered refuge from LIES turmoil; it
g not sugared hocus pocus, as the
latest religious fad of the boulevards
would have us believe; it is not only
to live by, it is something to
lie fOr.-Rev. DR.. Frank Crane, Unita-
ian. Worcester. Mass.
Many Inearnat1ona.
Incarnation is limited only by capaci.
to hold the divine. think of it In
his way: Along our $4,000 miles Of
eacoast how many bays and inlets
here are! Each has a separate name,
Is though each were separate and dis
met from every other. And yet all are
e one with the great ocean that aWeena