Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned Prom the Teachings
 of All DcnOnin.itio ions.

of All Dcnon,ii.s ions.
 You cannot dreau yot.fSeIl into character; you must hainn"r and forge yourself one. Key. br. Madison c. Peters. Baptist. New York.
 Model Wife.
 The model wife iS cunSerr;itr,i wonl- anhocd. building itself through the days and weeks and years into the lives of her loved ones. Rev. A. k. Lambert. Methodist. Chicago.
 Opposed to Spirit of Greed. The word of tod has no quarrel With money. much less with men of means, but is emphatic in Its denuhciation Of the spirit of greed and covetousneSs for all ages alike-Eev. w. A. Jones, Pres byterian Knoxville. Pa.
 The Refuse of Life.
 Jcsus sought the refuse of life for his disciples and his followers. He reach el under men to lift them up. He touched the common people till they rose to do his will Rev. Moore San- born. Unitarian, Atlanta, Ga.
 Heroic Catholics.
 Never be ashamed of being Cath ollie. Boldly declare your belief in Catholicity. and you will prove your self to be greater heroes than many i the world has crowned.-Arrhbisllop Farley, Roman Catholic, New York.
 Mountain Top Assurance.
 If we are true and faithful. the lone. Hest day of our religious experience may be followed by the mountain top assurance. 1t may come to us when we. like the Master, are praying for light aud guidance at life's dividing line.~~Kev. J. E. Toonay, Congregation alist, St Louis.
 Value Of Suffering.
 We ar,. at cur best when in trial anu trouble. Our hulcs. hours are those spent in trial and bereavement. Our souls profit more by smiles than by tears, but we should not weep CT smile always. God sends suffering to make us perfect, but he does not want LIS io suffer ali of ihn time. Rev. G. k. Van De Water, t.l,iseopaljan. New York.
 Union of Minds.
 Marriage is essentially union of minds in the goods and truths of Gods wisdom This Is the ideal for the young They shotlt. be taught to look for aha pray for this kind of marriage aud keep themselves pure for it's Saks pray to be led to that husband or wife with whom there can be this union of minds, which shall be eternal ill the heavens --- Rev II. Clinton Sweden borgian, Boston.
 Glorious Faculties.
 Reason is d glorius faculty, and her achievements are wonderful, but faith is more glorious faculty, and her achievements are Infinitely higher than those of reason Any age which g'ori. fies reason at the expense of faith nar- rows is horizon. clips the wings of it's aspiration and brings npon itself an essentially small and pfosaic life. So 1t was In the eighteenth century when ratIonalism was So glorlfe1 and exa't- M. So, too, In thls age, there are in dications that the period of analysis, criticism and skepticisn has passed and that new era of faith, with it's resulting religious power, Is now dawn 
 straton. Baptist, Chicago.
 The Blessed Sacrament.
 The physicians tell us a person puts on the nature of the food he uses, but if a certain food does not agree with s man on account of some disorder that instead of being useful to him it IS injurious. So We. when we receive communion. put on the nature of God We become go,ilike. but if we do not prepare for that food by good con- fession, by cleansing ourselves from sin, by removing the disorders of our soul, we become sacrilegious and are in worse state than before we re- ceived it. In world of trial and of sorrow and of eXile-and certainly that is what this world is-the blessed sac rament Is our greatest support and our sweetest consolation.-F Father Murray. Roman Catholic. Long Island City, NY.
 F0undlnE Church.
 To form a new church in any com munity is d great thing, but not diff fclllt thing for when two people come together in the Sayiour's name-though it is better when three come-there Is church there, for all purposes, and he is in the midst of them. Now, it may be granted that in planting such u seed the first necessity is to throw out roots, You must not look for stems, leaves or flowers first. Roots first and these afterward. Still, for heavens sake, let nobody forget that leaves and flowers and eventually fruit are what the seed Is planted for. If church >only roots itself, it might as well not be. The coming of the kingdom of God is the object, and the only object. for which this church is founded. Not simply the proclaiming or prophesXng the coming, but abso- lutcly 1he bringing ie ill. It is to hew down the mountains and to fill up the