Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23

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but those that sit around the hearth
stone Of the heart.-Rev. Frank Crane,
Coagregationalist, Worcester.
Small Temptations young man
who is bound to go to the devil is going
there any way, but there are many who
are led from the straight path by small
temptations.-Rev T. A. Strough. Con-
gregationalist, pawtucket, r. I.
Adams Sin.-The first man is sup
posed to have committed an act which
incurred the wrath and anger of God
All are born to the inheritance of this
wrath and anger Of Godfrey. p G.
| Sears, Episcopalian, Meridian, Miss.
Eternal Life-Eternal life is not
| quantity-it is quality. 1t is not
something we receive when the Pilgrim
| age is over: it is something we have at
the present moment.-Rev G. G.
Morgan, Presbyterian, New York City.
The Poor-If the church is to flourish
| she must open her doors not to the
| sponger and dead beat and whining
| sycophant, but to the earnest, indus
| LINUS NiticFo, OLlSli Id1IGd I'OOi.
Rev. w. A. Bartlett Congregational
ist, Chicago.
Justice.-God will give back to every
man that which is his. He will de-
fend the fatherless and the poor, and
| He will give unto the widow her due
He will judge all who should be judged.
Rev. G. T. Miller, Episc0palian,
Brooklyn.
| RestleSsness.- is the
mark of a vain, shallow, irreligious
and quite irresponsible character and
the very existence Of it is an evidence
of the hunger Of the soul that knows
no God.-Rev. B. b. Winchester, Con-
gregationalist Chicago.
Christian Fellowship majesty
Of Gods doings is understood by those
whom He has brought to full Christian
fellowship by infjcting the suffering
and pain that beauties the soul and
brings it nearer to heaven Rev. G.
e. Van de Water, Episcopalian, New
| York City.
The Preacher-Many man has
preached himself into rich reetory
or an episcopate who has at the same
! time preached himself out of the king
dom of God. He only can preach
living word who lived by and for the
word.-Rey. A. S. Crapsey, Episcopal
/ ian, Rochester
Russia.-Man may be a nominal
Christian and yet not stand for real
Christian qualities. & nation may be
nominally Christian, so as to excom-
municate a hereto like Tolstoi, and yet
sCrpass in cruelty and inhumanity the
most heinous and heathenish nations.
Rev Charles Wadsworth, Presby-
terrain, Philadelphia.
Abraham Lincosn.-Lincoln was as
scholastic as Edward Everett, and just
as classical; as oratorical as Henry
Ward Beecher, with a greater accu-
racy and more unique diction; as log
lcal as Daniel Webster, with a superior
craftsmanship. His statesmanhood
was incomparable.--Rev f. G. Bruner,
Methodist, Chicago.
The First Love.--The blossom and
the fruitage bespeak the rootage, and
the seed and the flower and the tree.
And unless you have the first love
love for God-in your heart, the love
that shall engage our attention on
Sunday morning will be a stranger to
your experience.-Rev.D d. D. McLarin,
Methodist, Rochester.
The Spirit-God is a spirit and He
can dwell in man's spirit 1t is pos
sible, therefore, for God to be en-
throned in the heart and life Of man.
II is just as possible to enthrone GOD
il our affections and give Him place
in our lives as it Is to enthrone, mother,
or father, or friend, or wife.-Rev. D.
H. Overton, Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
Pride-Humility is the first step to
promotion in the kingdom of grace.
HE that humbleth himself shall be ex.
alted'' We are Gods stewards, there
fore we are to avoid willful extrava-
gance, undue boasting and pride in
/ word and deed, which excludes God
and discounts sacred things.-Rev.
George Adams, Methodist, Brooklyn.
War With Eyil-Christ fought bat
ties more terrible than any hero of
war He fought aginst the powers of
evil. His battle in the wilderness with
Satan is the sublimest on record. We
are SO imperfect in our development
that we do not realize how terrible
were the battles for purity and justice
Christ fought-Rey. I. A. Hyde, Epis-
copalian, Brooklyn.
An American Religion.-We can't
expect all men to agree to a single set
OF dogmas and opinions, but all the
Christian churches can, without preju-
dice to their existing creeds and ideas,
unite in an American religion-a re-
ligion that conforms to the principles