The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-03-17
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

Cons Cleaned Prom the TeacAin~,
Of All Denominations
One OF the curses of religion n thai
% many people are merely the shells ID
Christianity. Rev. w. r. Sheridan,
Methodist, Louisville. Ky.
On The Highway . svsoss..
1t Is only when q man works for the
love Of work and not for money that
we can say a happy man 10 trudgins
along the highway Of true success
Rev. DR.. Frank De Witt Talmage,
Presbyterian. Los Angeles. Cal.
o Congregatlon.
No congregation can be regarded -
a model n which does not contain
some Of the Lords poor, to whom It
was especially designed that the gos-
pei should be preached.-Rev. Dr.. Rob
ert N. Green. Methodist. Brooklyn.
Truth.
Truth Is not confined to any Bible.
however venerable, nor to any church,
however ancient her authority. The
ideas Of past centuries will not sumcs
for today In religion any more than In
science or industy.--Rev. w. b. Pulls
ford. Unitarian, Chicago.
Mans Debt to the Ws,lA.
The world does not owe you q living,
young man. It owes you nothing but Q
fair chance. But, on the other hand.
you W the world something. You
w the world a debt Of mannness.
character and work.-Rev. B. r. White,
Presbyterian, New York. +
The satisfying Life.
The sooner we realize that man lives
not for bread alone, that the true end
Of life is not to please the body, but
discipline the spirit; that the satisfying
life Is the life fed from the heiehts. the
sooner shall we devote ourselves to the
essentfal.-Rev. DR.. Arthur Mather,
Episcopalian. 81. Louis.
True judgment.
Man is a moral being. There II IN
him an intuition Of right and wrong. |
To keep the judgment true Is the great !
thing. for there are many d~istracdng
influences in the world round about us, |
and it is necessary to have time and
means to have the conscience or tude- |
ment Quickened and made true.-Rev.
Alex Esler. Disciple, Toronto.
Vacations and worlAliness.
II there would be less vacation and
more work there would be less worldli.
ness in the church. As a general
thing. summer resorts are not calcu-
to create any religious enthusi-
asm, and 1t takes two or three months
Of the fall to get both pastor and peo-
pie lined up" again.-Rev. 8. 1. Lind
say. Congregatonalist. St. Louis.
Money and It's Dangers.
BY the Mammon Of unrighteousneas
bur Lord means money, and money. az
have seen. has its dangers. But all
Kings valuable are dangerous. Steam
electricity are dangerous, but
when mastered arc invaluable servants
II man. Money u attended with dan
1ers. but when rightly used It may
,scome the greatest blessing. To in
'ure this end money must be rightly {
,sed and not expended for sslnsh pur-
,oses.-Rev. DR.. b. II. Ward, 2Episco-
Pfttsburg.
TAe Jsvv1sh Question.
The Jews must come to the relief OF
he millions in Russian lands. The
'ewish question cannot be solved in
The hearty response Of the
ews Of the world In the present emer-
ency augurs well for the future. l
elieve that the Jews will solve the
uestion outside OF Russia and give to
ne oppressed a land where they may =
njoy their lives In peace and safety,
nd the old wandering Jew will at last
ease to roam.-Rabbi B. G. Ehren-
eich. Philadelphia. s
To Become Chrtstlike
Here Is the way to become Ike
hrtst: No mere pining for godliness,
o sheer mentality, no clustered isola- a
on from men. no ecstasy Of emotions, p
o reverence for historicity Of creed :
ecclesiasticism, no enthusiasm for
'dinances or liturgies or ritualisms d
IN beget in us likeness to Christ. We
Iust seek to make his consciousness n,
own, so far as we can, to live out ii
le vitalites Of his life, to reproduce In 10
I~rselves his ministry to the world, to q,
ate sham and incompleteness In any "a
'alm. Reflect him and we become q,
him. That is religion and ration a,
ity also. Every ~ Of Us h reflect I,
g something daily. We are moons to hi
me u We are mirrors to some IL
DRY or shame. Our dreams, work NJ
ops, literature, friendships. recrea- JIG
,ns, environment, are either degrad-
g or exalting Us. Every man IL be- :
9 changed from glory to glory or
om shame to shame BY the glorious
shameful things he reflects. There 81