Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-04
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teaching gs
 of All examinations.

PerSohalIty warns life Into c0i0f and thrills it Into music Negative, neutral men are of no power and of small value. - Rev. J r. Carson, Preabztz- r.an, Brooklyn.
 Shining Poems.
 Our prayers. when they leave IS, are paitry enough. but when they reach hearen and the angels interpret them they are shining poen.s. Rev Dr Frank Crane, ongregationalist, Wor- ceater, Mass
 Work is the soul trying to get itself into the open: work is the means of mans ma nifesta ton Of his spirit, work is the talking out loud of the soul work is that thing whereby we show what faculties God has endowed US with.-Rev. William A. Quayle. Metho- dist, Chicago
 Mattress Way.
 good man prays for rain His neighbor. equally good, asks foc fair weather. Which prayer does God an- swert Neither. The laws Of nature that govern raining ard shining pursue their course, as though no one had pra ycd. Rev. Dr Moore Sanborn, Uni tarlaa. Atlanta, Ca.
 Cross Bearing.
 The nan that has gone down ilto the h1man heart and sounded the depths of it's sorrows and syrpathzed with it's suTerings in others, as Christ has done. is best fitted to bear hs own cross when the hand Of adrersity presses heavily rron hira = Cardinal James Gibbons, Eoraan Catholic, Bal tinore
 Menace to Society.
 There are people who are patterns of good morals and yet steal away the enjoyment which other people have in their surroundings and possessions A mans happiness is one of his richest possessions, and there is no greater menace 10 society than the cynics, pes sinists and those gloomy, morbid per sons who make a business of robbing other people of the music and sunshine of life.-Rev. ]. NJ. MarkIey. Conge- gationallst, Denver
 Christian Perfection.
 The individual man, while subject to suffering and pain and mental anguish, is not brought nearer to God unless that suffering has it's origin in love for his people or h.s fellows. Ii was Christs mission to become perfect through suffering, and the Christians perfection comes from Christian suf fering, getting thereby the light of heaven. The selfish and worldly soul plunees only into dariness.-R Rev. C, R. Van De Water EplscopaIian, New York.
 Great Joy.
 There is no joy this side of glory like the joy Of being anointed with the oil of gladness Storms do not touch it. Creed cannot move it. 1 have had in my time as many sorrows, difficulties and disconra geaents to contend with as any nan among you, yet neither sorrows, difficulties, dscoura geIaents nor failures have ever touched that joy for moment It is like great river streaming through ry heart 3G5 days in the gear.-Rey. Dr. Reuben A. Tor rey. Evangelist. Chicago.
 To Know God.
 No man is understood bc his enemy, both because he will not bare himself to one who hates him and because, If he did, the hater has not the qualified tions for understanding. This Is true of God One must love him to under stand him. IL is both morally and in tellectually impossible for one who ig- norcs God in his own life to know him. Theology is no mere matter of sheer brain power It demands moral sym pathy, unity with God.-Rev. Dr. W. C. Hitting. Baptist. St. Louis.
 The Great Revival.
 All the signs Of the times portend that we are at the beginning of one of the mightiest manifestations of the power of God in saving grace which the world has ever witnessed; move. ment which shall exceed Pentecost, which shall exceed the Whitefield reviy- als. which shall exceed the Finney re vivals. which shall exceed the Moody reyiyals, which shall exceed all pre- viOu5 rcSiTalS. We have been passing throueh a period of tremendous spirit ual drought Churches have gone to sleep and have forgotten that their chef business is to save men. We have been passing through period of higher criticism. We have wearied and worried ourselves with every expedi- eut We have tried everything except relJ ing wholly upon God. Now we have been forced back upon God, and the great revival is here.-Eev. Ed ward H. Libby, Congregationalist, North EnGlcwood. H.
 God ut the Service of Man.
 s"reil lGe mans ruling love- said Swedenborg. and will tell you what he is" Equally true is this: "Giye me the sum total of mans actions, and will find ont from them his ruling