Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-04-21

dom OF God and is coined in the mint
Of confidence. - Rev. Moore Sanborn,
Unitarian. Atlanta, Ga.
A sIanderer.
The highwayman is a gentleman and
the ASSASSIN is kind compared with a
slanderer.-Rev. DIT. w. d. Bradheld.
Methodist, St Louis.
What Conversion Means.
Conversion does not mean the de-
Telopment of ones mind nor an In
crease in culture. II does not mean
reformation, but re-creatiOn.-Rev. J.
l. Campbell. Baptist. New York.
The Glory TO Come.
Let us not be disheartened by labors.
remembering that the sufferings OF this
life are not TO be compared with the
glory TO come. which shall be revealed
70 us.-Cardinal Gibbons, Roman Cath
olic. Baltimore.
a Plea Faz the Simple Gospel.
Speculative theology may serve to
interest a 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.
COngregationalist, Brooklyn.
The Innnite.
We cannot afford 10 think falsely
about God. He must be TO us the in
finite. az powerful, all knowing. ever
| present Father. from whom cometh ev-
cry good gift, I'm whom we live and
move and have our being.-Rev. w. d.
McCracken. Christian Scientist. Boston.
Loves Power.
| Love IS the center, the circumference,
the nadir and the zenith OF al true
peace and happiness. Love Is the mi
/ raculous magician which can change
the deserts OF trouble into oases OF JOY
and make even "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 viii not always fail. Truth
and right somehow in the end must
prevail. The divine i'm our natures Will
not all avs be defeated. In this thought
we get courage 60 struggle again.-Dr.
Felix Adler Hebrew. Washington
Ultimate Happiness.
Religious moralists in particular ought
10 consider that when they frame a
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 blasphemous opinion that any
body could express OF God and the su-
preme viii. / think that IL theology
ans could face the ultimate issue OF
their creed they would often pause. II
they could see that the universe which
at the end tOlerates and holds one atom
OF misery in IL is a failure they would
try TO conceive a theology that Is not
based on the bottomless pit and does
not make the Joy Of the righteous
greater because they behold the suf-
ferings OF the wicked. A universe that
does not hold happiness at the end is u
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
mainly. 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
Jew. yet he is the representative man
OF ell the ages. He exercised his teach
ing ministry in Judaea, yet he is the
fountain Of truth for all peoples. He
cannot be called socialist, yet he gave
such principles and so emphasized the
Golden Rule, recognized human broth
erhood and the divine fatherhood that
IL 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.
| 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
1t is almost a 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-
elude that the world is going to the
dogs, forgetting the fact that where
there is one such character there are a
| dozen Nhn are NOT dishonest and cor