Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-03-09
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Cam. Cleaned From the Teachings
Of All Denominations.

c.m. Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
One Of the curses Of religion Is that
On many people are merely the shells of
christianity. - Rev. w. F. Sheridan,
Methodist, Louisville, Ky.
On the Highway to Success.
II is only when man works for the
love of work and not for money that
ne can say happy man is trudglng
,long the highway of true success
Rev DR.. Frank De Witt Talmage,
presbyterian, Los Angeles, Cal.
Model Congregation.
No congregation can be regarded as
n model one which does not contain
some of the Lords poor, to whom t
was especially designed that the gos'
pel should be preached.-Rev. DR.. Rob-
ert NJ. Green, Methodist. Brooklyn.
Truth.
Truth Is not confined to any Bible,
however venerable, nor to any church'
however ancient her authority. Inc
ideas of past centuries will not sufhce
fer today in religion any more than IN
science or industry.-Rev. w. II. Puis-
ford, Unitarian, Chicago.
Mans Debt to the World.
The world does not owe you living,
young man. 1t owes you nothing but
fair chance. But, on the other hand,
YOU owe the world something. You
owe the world debt Of manliness,
character and work.-Rev. K. Il. Whlte'
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 heights, the
sooner shall we devote ourselves to the
essential.-Rev. DR.. Arthur Mather,
Episcopalian, st. Louis.
True Judgment.
Man is a moral being. There Is in
him an intuition of right and wrong.
To keep the Judgment true is the great
thing. for there are many distractlng
influences in the world round about us,
and it is necessary to have time and
means to have the conscience or judg-
ment quickened and made true.-ReV'
Alex Esler, Disciple, Toronto.
Vacations and worldliness.
If 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-
lated to create any religious enthusl-
asm, and it takes two or three months
of the fall to get both pastor and pe0-
pIe "lined up" again.-Rev. S. l. Lind
say, Congregationalist, st. Louis.
Money and It's Dangers.
By the Mammon of unrghteousness
our Lord means money and money, as
we have seen, has its dangers. But all
things valuable are dangerous. Steam
and electricity are dangerous, but
when mastered are invaluable servants
of man. Money is attended with dan
gers. but when rightly used 1t may
become the greatest blessing. TO in
sure this end money must be rightly
used and not expended for selfish pur-
poses.-Rev. DR.. f. II. Ward, Episco-
palian, Pittsburg.
The Jewish Question.
The Jews must come to the relief or
the millions In Russian lands. Inc
Jewish question cannot be soiVeo III
Russia. The hearty response OF the
Jews Of the world in the present emet-
gency augurs well for the future.
believe that the Jews will solve the
question outside Of Russia and give TO
the oppressed a land where they may
enjoy their lives in peace and sarety,
and the old wandering Jew will at last
cease to roam.-Rabbi Il. c. Ehren'
reich, Philadelphia.
To Become Christlike.
Here is the way to become ike
Christ: No mere pining for goodness
no sheer mentality, no clustered isoia'
tion from men, no ecstasy Of emotions,
no reverence for histOricity OF Greco
or ecclesiasticism, no enthusiasm fof
ordinances or liturgies or ritualisms
can beget in us likeness to Christ. we
mnst seek to make his consciousness
our own, 50 far as we can, TO i've ou'
the vitalities of his life, to reproduce 10
ourselves his ministry to the world, 70
hate sham and incompleteness in any
realm. Reflect him and we become
like him. That is religion and ration
atty also. Every one Of us is reject
ing something daily. We are moons u
some sun. We are mirrors to some
/ glory or shame. Our dreams, work
shops. literature, friendships. recrea
tions, environment, are either degrad
ing or exalting us. Every man is be
ing changed from glory to glory
from shame to shame by the glorious
or sha eful things he reflects. There
fore religion is needed in every LIE
Christ Is essential to our characters
Rev. DR.. w. G. Biting, Baptist, st
Louis.
The New Conscience.
The hope Of our age is the new con
science, which, paraphrasing the word
Of Grattan, arises, out Of the very ex
cess Of the evil--a glazing, tragic us
proportion between the multiplicatio'
Of the material resources and the PAIN
fully labored increase Of the moral re
sources Of the nation. CIVILIZATION
without conscience is seen to be dea'
thing and not worth while. The rorce
setting siege to citadeled wrong ar
arming themselves with the frresistl
BILE weapon of the new conscience. N
single force has ministered as power
fully to the new conscience as the ne'