Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-04
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
 of All Denominations

Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
 of All Denominations. Our blessedncss flows from what We give to God. not from what We take from him. Rev. Dr. Frank Crane. Con gregationalst, Worcester Mass. i Repentance.
 When q man stops blaming condi tions and takes to himself the responsi- bility for what he Is and what hp has done he has obeyed the first word of Christ" repent" ."-Rev. Howard Me fish. Epscopaian. Brookly lyn
 Measures of Success.
 The success of q nan may be ascer tained from the height of things he as pires to be, but his failure must be measured by the distance between what he might have been and what he be cane.-Rev Louis F. w. Lesema m. Methodist, Chicago
 Need of Charity.
 If this generation would claim the great promise of the book of books it would find measure of happiness the world has never experienced I fear 1t is too selfish to believe "It Is better to give than to reeeive."-Rev pr. Sim mons, Baptist. Peoria. III.
 Seize the Sunlight Hours.
 If you lose the morning you lose the best part of the twenty four hours Good arguments have been used for using the midnight lamp. but those who use it are helping to burn out their existence. You must seize and save the sunlight hours.-Rev. T. L. Cuyler. Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
 Souls Cry For God.
 Religion is the souls cry for God and his unfaiing answer If man needed, any further proof of the existence of God than tAat followed by his own being hea finds that proof abundantly in the souls unceasing search after it's Creator. - Rev. Everett Dean Ellen wood, Universalist. Atlanta, Ga.
 Salvation.
 Salvation is fullness Of life Fullness of life is salvation. and. so far as We have life, fife at it's highest and best we are saved. Salvation is progressive, not final. Its meaning enlarges as life enlarges. The salvation that the world -neeus is education, not redemption. = Rev Minot Simons. Unitarian, Cleve- land, 0.
 A True Lover.
 God is a true lover and he would not be true lover if he should be indiffer ent to the love of those whom he loves, He hates and will hate for all eternity those who in the end refuse to love him. And ill both he demonstrates his character of our true and eternal lover. Rev. Father D. $. Phelan, Roman Catholic. St. Louis.
 Value of a Good Coincidence.
 A life without conscience toward ] God first and toward man because of God, is the worst of failures. No gold can gild. no glamour of position or pow CT can hue it with success But a good l conscience is true riches. patent of genuine nobility, a breastplate against all adTersites and a light of inner peace and Joy that will sustain us un= ti,. we reach our Fathers house.-Rev. .Inljiils B. Eemensnyder, Lutheran, New York
 Character the Best Possession.
 One little act of kindness, one eenu- ine exhibition of unselishness, is found to be thousand times more valuable than the piled up millions of the rich. Bnt. more than that, the loss of charac- ter. mans best possession, is found to be tine loss of all. for when the heart condemns and the finger of scorn is pointed at a man or woman it matters not bow many may be the millions they all appear to be but the millstone that is hung about the neck.--Rev. Dr. w. A. 1:artlett. Congregationalist. Chi cago.
 Developing Moral Character. It is not by making excuses for chil- dren wien they do wrong that we teach them how to do right. But it is only by stern. firm. memorable teachings of right and wrong that we develop their moral character as 1t ought to be de- veloped. Do not lower the moral standard for your children one inch. Make them toe the line ot the moral code. Do not make the miAtake of old Eli. who had two soDs. and they both turned out to be bad boys because .he restrained them not." Rev Dr. Frank De Witt Talmage, Presby terian. Los Angeles. Cal.
 l Let Us Pray.
 For one precious moment let US try to think of the supreme ami universal spirit as an exhaustless source .or wis doIn or truth. of goodness CT love and of righteous will power or purity. Then let us inquire, How can that wis dom come into our understanding, that 1 goodness into our affections, that right e0usness into our will? l hod it just as impossible for man to increase ia wisdom, love or righteouSnesS without