The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1906-10-11
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
sserau Cleaned From the Teaching
of All Denomi n ntions.

OF All
Higher liberty is measured by the
amount of liberty one helps to give the
next man.-Rev. DR.. Thomas R. Slicer,
Unitarian, New York.
A Good Life's Effect.
The first effect Of good life Is the
cheerfulness and joy born Of the test-
mony of a good conscience.-Rev. J. A.
Tracey, Roman Catholic. Germantown.
Pa.
Our Great Companion.
You do not need telescope to see
the Great Companion, for he Is ever by
your side, responsive to the slightest
touch and weakest prayer.-Rev. Moore
Sanborn, Unitarian, Atlanta, Ga.
Truths.
Religious truths are something in
side Of q man. They cannot be felt
with our hands. they cannot be seen,
yet we possess them and know they
are there-Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott,
Congregationalist, Brooklyn.
A Great Delusion.
It is one Of the great delus1ons OF
the world for us to suppose that peo-
ole are we'll off or blessed or prosper
GUS because they are delivered from
the necessity Of toil.-Rev. DR.. Mlnot ].
Savage, Unitarian. New York.
Equal Rights.
The paramount doctrine of equal
rights Is that each soul has divine
right, a kingly and knightly right,
to all the liberty he can use and
has the right to stand up in his Makers
image to show what he can use.-Re7.
NJ. w. Stryker, Presbyterian. Clinton,
N. Y.
Worlds Motive Power.
Faith is the motive power Of the
world, The men and women who, un-
der God, have lifted the world slowly,
notch by notch, out of savagery toward
civilization have been men and women
who believed. No doubter ever became
@ world power.-Rev. e. Dean Ellen
wood, Universalist, Atlanta, Ga.
Earthly Happinena.
Be content with y" r position In life.
Earthly happiness { cal dignity do
not depend on the accumulation of
wealth and honor. The Saviour Of
mankind and the model Of men had not
whereon to lay bis head. Therefore 1t
cannot be dishonorable to be poor
Cardinal Gibbons, Roman Catholic,
Baltimore.
Dupe-forfty In Han.
Accidents of lie do not make men
superior. Wealth does not make men
superior. There should be more equal
iV among US. Many men In fustian
and patches are better men than many
riding today In carriages, and many
rich men are better than we give them
credit for. Simply because G man
tolls with his hands we cannot say he
is @ chattel.-Rey. w. e. Fatherley,
Methodist, Brooklyn.
Doubts.
Thoughtful people have doubts, but
doubts ought not to be the sum total
stock in life. Doubts ought to be like
clouds that by and by are swept from
the sky. We have got to have sunup
and sunlight, and the blanketlng Of the
clouds must some time be torn away.
and the sunlight must get at the flow
ers of the world, lest the flowers fall
to bloom and eXhale perfume to the
eky.-Rev. William A. Quale, Metho-
dist, Chicago.
The Church With d Grip.
The church upon whose heart lies
heaviest this burden, the burden Of the
cop1mon people; the church that Is
struggling to uplift them, to inspire
them with hope and encouragement;
the church that Is actually getting be.
meath the load that they are not able
to carry and helping to carry it with
them, Is the church that twenty-five
years from today will not only have
its grip upon the common people. but
Will have Its grip also upon the
wealthy.-Rev. DR.. Len G. BrouChton,
Baptist. Atlanta, Ga.
Strenuous Life Suicidal
People too often get so impressed
with the Idea that there Is not only a
great deal to be done In the world. but
that no one else can do it so well as
they. Now, that Is form of unfaith.
Hurry is a species Of infidelity. We
zee all about us maniacal creatures OF
that sort who have not yet been cor
rallied In an asylum. And their actions
cannot be excused on the plea that 1t
is really due to something especially
,exhilarating in the American air. They
are really volcanic eruptlons Of human
self seeking and greed. There Is q spe'
cies Of moral lunacy abroad, and peo.
pie who think they are intense. but are
really hysterlcal, are burning them
selves up before they are properly can
didates for a crematory. Killing one
self by inches by such process is just
as much suicide as it Is to draw razor
through the jugular vein. The cyclon'
ic hysterla OF the times Is fatal to q
proper appreciation Of the finer things
in life.-Rev. DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst'
Presbyterian. New York.
Good Angels IN Everyday Life.
There are opportunities today for the
preparing Of meals for the hungry
There are the worthy poor. and In CIV
Ing to them we are giving unto the
Lord. But there are also the sorrow
Ing. who need more than meat ano
clothing. They are in want Of soul
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