Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-02-16

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1t often happens that God cannot bless
rs richly because we are not prepared
for large blesslngs.-Rev. E. E. Chivers.
Baptist, st. Louis.
Club Women.
Women have been criticised for join
ing literary clubs, yet the club, IN
stead Of injurng the home, has been
the means Of saving 1t by elevating its
intellectual position.-Rev. NJ. n. Man.
gasarian, Independent, Chicago.
Perfect World.
A world without suffering and sacri-
fee would soon become world with
out heroism. And world perfectly
and always happy would be a world
perfectly and always dead.-Rev. j. Z.
White, Baptist, Atlanta, Ga.
Men and Money.
Tell me d mans use Of money and
his method of acquiring money and I'll
tell YOU what kind Of man he Is.
Gold is tried with the tombstone. but
men are tried with godfrey. W. d.
Bradfield, Methodist, st. Louis.
Gods Presence.
No man can doubt Gods presence in
the world who sees how sin is shamed
into silence and sinks toward Its grave
when shown by the searchlight Of an
awakened conscicncc.-Rev. DR.. Moore
Sanborn, Unitarian, Atlanta, Ga.
Ardent Love.
The stronger love is, so much more
perfect will be 4 mans good works,
and an insignificant act performed in
the strength Of ardent love is worth
more in Gods sight than even martyr
dom itself where love is lacking.-Rev.
Thomas ]. Crosby, EpiscOpalian, Brook
lyn.
Tainted Money.
Protests against tainted money are
in place when it tries to control the in
stitutions that are its beneficiaries. II
O rich endower insists that his opinions
be taught in the schools he aids then
his money Is tainted and cannot be TAX
eli without injury to the recipicnt.-Dr.
Emil g. Hrsch. Rabbi, Chicago.
The Holy Spirits working.
Men have been converted who did not
so much as know there was Bible.
The Holy Spirit worketh when, where
and how he pleaseth, and I would no
more restrict him to the word than l
would restrict the love Of the Father to
the church or the revealing power OF
the Son to the intellect.-Rev. Charles
L. Chalfant, Presbyterian, st. Louis.
The Minds Great Developer.
Education is not simply acquiring
knowledge. 1t is q great deal more.
1t is q great developer Of the mind. 1t
trains and develops this great organ.
There may be no practical use Of Latin
and Greek to many who study them,
but they are Of great use, and these
studies, so easily forgotten, have done
great work when the goal is reached.
Rev. G. 8. Murphy, Lutheran, Mount
Vernon, o.
The Secret Of Happiness.
The great secret Of happiness Is the
home Every man should have one.
Every man should have q wife. And
husband and wife and house and a
garden don't complete home. A hus-
band and wife don't constitute fami-
". Children make family and make
happiness. You may have beautiful
home. and beautiful surroundings, but
children are necessary to complete the
picture.-Rev. John B. Toomay, Con-
gregationalist, st. Louis.
Cultivate the Spirit.
The, spirit must be cultivated. "The
soul of all improvement is the improve
ment of the SOUL" said one who always
is worth listening to. Aim ut the beau
tiful in character Add virtue to vir-
tue. What satisfaction the astronomer
experiences when he discovers new
star, Dr. the botanist n new plant, or the
artist new combination or shade In
color! Courage and strength also must
be developed. Our times demand men
Of power. The duck, with its soft beak
and web feet, is all right for the barn.
yard, but it takes the eagle, with beak
and claws and muscles like steel, to
breast the storm and traverse the in.
finite fields of space.-Rev. DR.. john
Thompson, Methodist, Chicago.
Divine Love.
What we need most of all is not the
building up of our churches, nor the
passage and enforcement of stricter
laws about public morals, nor the in
PRODUCTION of some new social and eco
nomic system. What we need most OF
all is the increase Of the divine love III
the hearts Of men. The final test OF
all our creeds and churches Is whether
they are able to produce this supreme
thing. In its presence doubts and de-
mails melt away as the snowbank melts
under the warm sunshine of spring, Us
the darkness is dissolved by the light.
There is no other influence under heaV'
en- by which poor, discouraged. bard
ened, sinful men and women can De
saved and renewed than by the out
reaching to them Of the divine love
through human hand and a human
voice. Without It all our doctrines ana
our sermons and our services ana our
sacramento are but sounding brass anu
tinkling cymbal.-Rev. Willard b.