The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-31
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT,

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teaohin@s
of All Denominations.
Christ came into the world not to tell
us what In right, but to give to our
right doing the right favor.-Rev. Dr..
Frank Crane. Unitarian, Worcester,
Mass.
Society today Is organized along In
dustrial lines. and It isen large meas
ure along industrial lines that the 80
luton Of its problems must come
Rev. Willard B. Thorp. Congregation
alist, Chicago.
Sacramental Point Of View.
Ali things about us, all phenomena,
even capital and labor and its conten.
tons, can be considered from the sac
ramental point of view and spiritual
lessons drawn from them.-Rev. T. +
Seymour. Episcopalian. Peoria, Ill.
Opttmism In RELIGION.
The spirit Of optimism 10 softenina
the asperities Of religion, civilizing the
human idea and supporting GOD, rob
bling the grave Of its terrors, relieving
life Of many of its burdens and teaching
all to see good in everything.-Rev. DR..
J. e. Roberts, Church of This World,
Kansas City, Mo.
Value OF Obedience.
The parent who does not compel HE
child to respect and obey him commits
a sin in the sight of God and must suf-
fer the consequences. The child that ia
not taught the lesson Of obedience to
his parents will become a nuisance in
society and curse to the world.-Rev.
A. R. Holderby, Methodist, Atlanta,
Ga.
America and Liberty.
When labor IL free and when capital
il free, when combinations on either
side are put down by an aroused public
opinion and equality of rights for all
men is established in the social and
Industrial realm, then, and not till then,
shall liberty in America attain its per.
feet development.-Rev. DR.. w. w.
Boyd. Baptist, st. Louis.
Value of a Devoted Friend.
A poor man may be said to be rich
in the midst of his poverty so long as
he enjoys the interior sunshine OF q
devoted friend. The wealthiest Of men,
on the contrary, is poor and miserable
II he has no friend whom he can grasp
by the hand and to whom he can dis
close the secrets of his heart.-Cardinal
James Gibbons. Roman Catholic, Bal.
timore.
Search For the Truth.
Church organizations are a necessity
for the maintenance Of worship and the
PRONUNCIATION Of religious teaching, but
a church organization should never be
used to bring any pressure to bear di.
rectly or indirectly upon any man to
hinder him in his honest search for
truth or in his honest expression of
what he believes to be the truth.-Rev.
@. A. Kratzer, Universalist, Fitchburg.
Mass.
Socialism and Misers.
While the socialism which would
make all men exactly alike as to the
possession Of wealth 10 wrong, a little
socialism which would hang every
misery man, not in the orthodox way
but upside down by the feet, SO that
money might run out of him for the
poor and the unchurched and the
heather, would be a good thing.-Rev.
DR.. Charles Herald. Congregational.
ist Brooklyn.
Mans Supreme Need.
The supreme need of mankind Is Coz
version to religion, to the spiritual
point Of view, to an appreciation Il
what 10 most worthy Of the name 10
ngion az q human asset-a conversion
to the spiritual point Of view. an est.
mate Of religion not apart from prac-
tdcal life. but as force In forming and
sublimating 1t all. the innate force, II
e 10 mot denied or ignored, making for
nobility and for the noblest<way Of do
Ing all things.-Rabbi Charles Fleisch-
Or. Hebrew. Boston.
The Bible - . Charter Of Freedom.
The present applicability Of the NOR.
al principles Of the Bible to human
life verlfies It's divine authorship. Bib
ncal morality has been placed under
tremendous strain, but has been suffi-
cient to boar It Individuals following
It's divine directions have become illus
trious saints. Nations, 90 far as they
have accepted the Bible, have found 1t
q safe charter Of freedom. a sure guide
to success. The missionary has proved
the power Of Scripture to lift men out
Of q savage state into civilization. The
Bibae is the source Of the purest, sim.
plok strongest morality the world has
ever seen.-Rev. DIR. Marcus A. Brown.
son. Presbyterian. Philadelphia.
The Urgent Life.
Urgent, our Lord tells US, was his
life. He IL the example Of all true nv.
ing. These lives Of ours. shortened now
By the measure Of another year, should
be urgent also. There ought to be In
every life theSrgency of the feeling Of
being sent This was In the life of
Jesus. ~ must work the works Of him
that sent me-" There ought to be In sv.
cry life that urgency Of sense Of obli-