The Grenada sentinel., 1906-10-20
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems G1eane ed From the TeachinGM
OF All Denominations,

. Gems Cleans cd From the TeachinE1
OF All Denominations.
Life holds no higher Joy than the dai
ly exercise Of ones talents. Happiness
Is not In owning; 1t is in getting and
giving-Rev DR.. Newell Dwight Hill
lis, COngregatlonalIst. Brooklyn.
The Unseen.
The power to realize the unseen is as
truly a part Of our human nature as
our instinct for right, which we call
conscience.-Rev. I. J. Van Ness, Bap-
tist, Nashville, Tenn.
Work of Culture.
Culture, in q word, brings more OF
the man, most of the man, into play
and puts his maximum into work and
gets the ma ximum In real values out
Of that work. Rabbi Leon Harriso-N
ST. Louis.
| Hard Problem.
To save this world is q hard problem.
the hardest, perhaps. that God ever un-
dertook to solve, but not too hard for
him. He Is the OmnipOtent God. All
/ things are possible with him.-Rev. A.
X. HOlderby, Presbyterian, Atlanta, Ga.
/ Value Of Courage.
! Men without courage constitute the
weak set in every community. 1t Is
the strong, coUra geous men everywhere
! that succeed. The strength of a nation
IS not in the number Of its inhabitants,
but in the proportion Of its men and
women who dare to think and have the
courage Of their convictions-Rev. w.
NJ. Martin. Methodist, Brooklyn.
The Need of Sympathy
We are social beings; we were Great
ed to live in society. No man IS suffi-
cicnt unto himself We are mutually
dependent on one another. As an in
jury to one organ involves shock to
the entire human system, so should
the community at large feel a prac-
tical sympathy for their fellow beings
in any grievance expressing them.-
Cardinal Gibbons, Roman Catholic,
Baltimore
4 Divine Monitor
Conscience wounded becomes an ad-
ders tongue that will sting to the
death. Let no man hope to evade the
Nemesis that follows tIe ignoring Of
this divine monitor.
no tOrtures whicA the poets feign
Can match the fierce, intolera5le pain
He feels who. night and day devoid of
rest,
Carries his own accUscr II his breast.
-Rev. Junius 3. Remensnyder Luther
an, New York
Divine Service.
The true divine service is-What?
Not the worship Of God, as we Ordi-
narily think OF it; not the PROSTATE
knee, the upliftcd eye, the clasped
hands of devotion; not observance of
ritual, stately OF simple; not plant of
penitence or pleading Of prayer or
chant of praise; not hearing of SER
mons; not even the mystery and the
sweetness Of the realized presence in
the blessed eucharist All these have
their place, their value, their benedic-
tory power; all are. | trust, familiar,
precious means of grace to us, but
Jesus ChriSt's idea of the
divine service is love- self sacrifice,
ministry. - Rev. DR.. Lindsay Parker
Brooklyn
The Use of Religious Freedom.
In the early stages of the religious
life of men and nations when they be-
gin to think about themselves and rea-
son about themselves, they discover
that they are in bondage The family,
he tribe, the creed, the church, the
state, have already set limits to the
hOuSht of man. This comes about nat
lrally through the effort Of men to es-
ablish and keep whatever they find to
De good. By experience they have
earned that some things tend to make
men wise and good and happy. AS a
of social stability and prog
ess they at once try to fix these things
n the minds and habits of men-in
'oems, in songs, in stories, in creeds, in.
ties, in ceremonies, In habits of the
laily life. They try to keep in mind
nd to work into practice that which
GEMS to be good or wise or true. But
be time surely comes when further ex-
erience teaches that there are better
hings to be had. A few learn that
here Is chance to become still more
'ise and good and happy. They have
ebelled against external authority in
latters Of religious faith and practice
hey are emancipated They have be-
ONE freed men. They rejoice greatly.
l their freedom. They often. like
'eed men of all kinds. think they have,
on more than they really have, for as
etween slavery and freedom slavery,
positive, while freedom is negative.
lavery means external compulsion
nd constraint; freedom means the alb
.nce Of compulsion and restraint
lat Is, nothing. After this fashion one
ay in religion be free and be neither
ise nor strong nor good. One of the
eakest and most helpless Of all hu-
an creatures Is often a newly eman-
1ate:i slave. At best he has the uses
A.5 powers yet to learn. 1t takes
Nv to discover that freedom is not al
re. but condition. We cannot too
satly emphasize the fact that in re-
ion we are now free and that with
II freedom our duty and our RESPONSE
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