Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-21
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

Moore SaEDOrn, Unitarian, Alldntd,
Ga.
SIandercr.
The highwayman is gentleman and
the assassin is kind compared with
slanderer.-Rev. DR.. w. D. Bradfield,
Methodist, ST. Louis.
What Conversion Means.
Conversion does not mean the de-
velopment Of ones mind nor an in
crease in culture. 1t does not mean
reformation. but re-creation.-Rev. ].
L. Campbell. Baptist. New York.
The Glory to Come.
Let us not be dsheartened by labors,
remembering that the sufferings of this
life are not to be compared with the
glory to come, which shall be revealed
to us.-Cardinal Gibbons, Roman Cath
Ollie, Baltimore.
A Plea For the Simple Gospel.
Speculative theology may serve to
interest man in his idle moments.
He pleads for the simple gospel Of
Jesus Christ for the days of the weary
heart and the troubled spirit.-Rev.
Everett Dean Fleetwood, Universalist,
Atlanta, Ga.
Ambition and Aspiration.
No matter what hOnors we may at
tain or what position, we are never
satisfied We are pleased for a night,
but in the morning ambition and as
piration come and urge us on to better
and higher things.-Rev. n. D. Hills,
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The Infinite.
We cannot afford to think falsely
about God. He must be to us the in
finite, all powerful, all knowing, ever
present Father, from whom cometh ev-
cry good gift, in whom we live and
move and have our being.-Rev. w. D.
| NcCracken, Christian Scientist, Boston
Loves Power.
Love is the center, the circumference,
| the nadir and the zenith Of all true
| peace and happiness. Love is the mi
| raculous magician which can change
the deserts of trouble into cases of JOY
and make even 1.-THE dying bed feel
soft as downy pillows are."-Rev
Frank De Witt Talmage, D. D., Pres
byterian, Los Angeles, Cal
Power of the Divine.
Life is the tragedy Of the divine try
! ing to accomplish itself by mortal
means, the infinite seeking to express
! itself in finite nature and conditions
| We cannot escape the conclusion that
the divine will not always fail Truth
and right somehow in the end must
prevail The divine in our natures will
not always be defeated In this thought
we get courage to struggle again.-Dr.
Felix Adler Hebrew, Washington.
! Ultimate Happiness.
Religious moralists in particular ought
to consider that when they frame q
theory Of universal morality Which
ends in perdition for some people they
! are laying the heaviest indictment that
! anybody could lay and expressing the
most blasphem0us opinion that any.
| body could express of God and the su-
preme will I think that if theologi
ans could face the ultimate issue Of
their creed they would often pause. If
| they could see that the universe which
at the, end tolerates and holds one atom
Of misery in it is a failure they would
try to conceive a theology that is not
based on the bottomIess pit and does
not make the JOY of the righteous
! greater because they behold The saf
ferings of the wicked. A universe that
does not hold happiness at the end is d
failure.-Rev. John w. Day, Unitarian
| st. Louis.
Center For Universal Humanity.
Just as our sun is the center of at
traction for his attendant planets, so
Jesus is the center for universal hui
manity He is the supreme religious
| teacher. Jew and Greek, Buddhist and
Confucian, Brahman and Parsee, are
! coming to sit at his feet. His teaching
| is adapted to all minds as the light is
to all eyes and air to all beings. Born
a Jew, yet he is the representative man
of all the ages. He exercised his teach
ing ministry in Judaea, yet he is the
! fountain of truth for all peoples. He
cannot be called. a socialist, yet he gave
such principles and SO emphasized the
Golden Rule, recognized human broth
erhood and the divine fatherhood that
if his teachings were lived up to labor
troubles and national strifes would be
at an end and the golden year would
dawn upon us.-Rev. John Thompson,
Methodist, Chicago.
A just Man.
From much that is said and written
in our magazines it would appear that
but few men are just and of a re-
ligious turn Of mind. We hear so much
about men not being in the church that
it is almost temptation for even the
faithful to keep away, for they almost
infer that the church is no longer the
place for men, but only women and
children. There is danger of driving
men from the church by constantly
nagging them. We read in bold type in
our daily papers of those men who are
unjust and dishonest, and we con
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