The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-02-09

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The Struggle.-Though everything W.
struggle for is not good, everything
good has to be struggled for.-Rev
Frank Crane, Unitarian, Worcester
Mass.
Across the Sea.-Jews all over the
world are turning their eyes toward
Palestine, where they hope to tnd 9
home, and are all working with thai
in view.-Rabbi L. Zolotkoff, Hebrew
Chicago.
Economy.-The economies OF our In
tellectual and spiritual lives, like the
economies represented in money, con
sist Of little savings, care CT the little
things.-Rev. David Utter, Unitarian
Denver.
Justice.-So much has been done t.
make religion attractive, ID much has
been said concerning the mercy of God
that in insisting on the gospel of love
men have forgotten the gospel of JUS
tice.-Rev. ]. L. Levy, Hebrew, Pitts
burg.
Sufering.-In passing through sui.
fering there comes a splendid oppor-
tunity to know what 1t Is TO sympa.
thize with others, and what message
Of good cheer means to a keavy heart
Rev. w. s. Swanson, Cnited Breth'
rem, New York City.
neutrality-suspicious. should not de.
pend on tradition. It will not DO to
risk eternal things on hearsay. Our re
ligion is a religion of book. 1t does
not rest on unintelligible impulses and
casual utterances.-Rev. b. b. Hull
Baptist, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Old Age.-To men and women who
have used life for the development OF
character and growth Of the soul, old
age does not betoken impotence and the
cessation Of all functions but on the
contrary, ushers In a season Of fresh
vigOr and fOurishment-Eabbi II. G..
Enelow, Hebrew, Louisville.
The Ruin Of ENTHUSIASTICALLY has
been the ruin Of nations-Ggypt, Syria,
0AOCNS anu ANOA4Cs 4uCIS Is III IL U
bacillus that tends to overstep pru-
dence- bunting of fine. sensibilities,
lessening of ideals, a treading under
foot of eternal principles of right and
Philadelphia.
The Supreme Motive.-The supreme
motive Of the world is self-forgetful-
ness and love. When we SIC Jesus
Christ die we know that God loves, and
that the Infinite hath a heart, and that
our heavenly Father, like our earthly
mothers, doth suffer for His children.
Rev. N. M. Waters, Congregational
ist Brooklyn.
Nothing New.-As fast as developing
civilization reaches any conclusion that
seems to it new, 1t discovers it to be
as old as Jesus of Nazareth. The state
ment may be new, the application OF II
may be novel, but the inherent and fun
damental spirit of It IS, without excep-
ton, His.-Rev. ]. B. Clark, Presbyte-
rian, Detroit.
Beauty.-The Book Of Psalms is an
art gallery. One psalm Is the picture
Of thunder storm, another ia a quiet
pastoral; another is a Rhigi view, and
another IL the painting Of he holy city
all alive with the gathered tribes Of
God God knows that beauty is a pow
er, and hence He uses it.-Rev. .. q.
Gregg, Congregationalist, Boston.
The Spiritual Life.-By nature there
IL that within us which Is alien to the
kingdom of heaven. This we should
overcome, for the life which is out of
harmony with the laws OF The spiritual
world Is sinful life. No man can
start in the kingdom until he has new
nature, with new powers the spiritual
life which Is typified in Christ. The
man who has that life will grow in
power from month to month and year
to year.-Rev. D. w. Montgomery, Con-
Uegationalist Washington.
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