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/. RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
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He who believes with heart and head
in righteous God Will lead a righteous
life and he at reare With God Rev.
DR. w \. Stanton, Baptist. rittsburg.
Pa
Spiritual Bankruptcy.
The decline Of religious instinct In
the present day is Il spiritual bank
ruptcy that inpoversheS wedlock-
Rabbi Leon HARRISON st. Louis.
Lies Most important Thing.
Character is the supreme thing III
life. because apart from it there can be
neither IL good mind nor true riches
Rev. r. f.. ShulZ. EpiScopalian. -.
Louis.
DO Your Best Eacl, Day.
Live one day at a time. 30 not think
.Iiat vou cannot do all that you are ever
going - Go nov achieve all that You are
eyer going to achieve in single day or
Il single year. but do today the best
you can. ANA this Will give you courage
and strength for tomorrow Key. {. I.
Pierce. Baptist. Los Angeles. Cal
Divine Character.
1t is not mere know age that saves
:. man but character. and character
.ao!cIed after the great pattern. Jesus
Christ. ALI character which he. by his
s;"rt and by the pew birth from above.
yyill enable Il man to build, and Il char
.icter that is fashioned by doing the
will of God Rev. W. 2. George. Meth
odiSt Denver.
How Precious Days Are Wasted.
Many men ana women are wasting
precious days that might be used Tor
Christ by not getting up on time and
starting the work Of the day on time
and Systematically and promptly meet
ing All demands as they come up for
settlement Rev Dr. Frank he Witt
Valmage. Presbyterian. Los Angeles.
Cal
Between Life and Death.
In every sphere the wisest and most
powerful and the richest move on be
tween life and death The foreign sub
stances in the flesh may be seen. but
the marrow in the bone is yelled for the
wisest of men. and the scholar who
knows all the books Of time cannot tell
what day may bring forth.-Rev. J.
+. Stoffieh. Lutheran. Jersey City, \. j.
The Chri.tian.
To be a Christian we must think of
the other man. offer our sociability and
make the world a happier place to live
in. lie open eyed to see the needs of
iaen and be a refor!ner on their behalf;
think for others. do for others even to
the degree of doing when it costs sweat
and blood. That is what Washington
and Lincoln, Garrison and Wendell
Phillips did. The great and the good in
AL other realms outside of religion have
been those who have thought and
wrought for other men.-Rev. b. A.
Greene BAPTIST. Evanston, ILL.,
4 Spiritual Democracy.
Mankind should constitute a great,
grand spiritual democracy. The divine
possibility i'll me is matched by that
in every other God has no dar.iagS in
this sense. The identical poSs .hility cf
that other makes him my spirit real
brother and gives him claim upon NY
fraternal ears; hence my life must he
helpful Service must be my highest
aim. What have or know must be a
sacred trust for others. In fact l can
best realize Hly own possibilities by
helping to nurture the similar poten-
cies of others.--Eabbi A. J. Lyons,
Brooklyn.
Charity.
Don't depend too much on organiza-
tons to do your charity The associ-
atei charities and the church and the
Salvation Army and the various be-
neVolent concerns are good. They are
doing Il work YOU cannot do. They de
serve your support. But we pay for
them in moro lays than one. Let us
not allow them to- rob us of the pure
Joy of personal hand to hand charity.
You will lose much of the beauty and
tenderness out of your Christian life
unless YOU saToehow keep always in
touch with Gods poor.-Rev. DIR. Frank
Crane, Unitarian, Worcester, Mass.
Christian Courtesy.
Instead of beng one Of the minor
virtues real Christian courtesy includes
in itself all the graccs there are. Love
is at the center of things in the Chris
tan system. and courtesy is simply the
way in which love expresses itself. 1t
Is grace that the poor man can eXer-
else as we'll as the rich and the I'M