Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-20

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there is little hope for advancement in
life without it.-Rev. Dwight E. Mar
vim, Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
Personal Salvation.
The work of the church is not simply
to overthrow the outward forms of
vice, but to redeem the victim-Rev.
JaDes NJ. Taber, Methodist, Newark.
TIE Right Christian.
The right Christian is the man who
knows he has not yet attained, but de-
votes his energies to attaining.-Rev.
John Acheson, Presbyterian, Aurora.
Light.
God is the light of the soul. If we,
like the glowworm, shall absorb the
spiritual light, we shall reflect the great
Creator-Rev. e. E. Phreaner, Metho-
dist, Providence.
Religion with Education.
Religion with education brings out
the young man in all his character !;
shows the formation and basis of his
character and ideas,-Rev P. T..
O'Hare, Roman Catholic, Williamsburg.
n. Y.
Land of Promise.
Despite the excuses. moral enormi
ties and excrescences on our country,
this land is great and glorious and full
of promise, and from this country
comes a movement for the improvement
OF the human race.-Dr. Felix Adler,
Ethical Culturist. New York City.
Manly Strength.
Ihere is too much of the sisterly
weakness of man in dealing with vital
interests. No matter how they may
differ from Us, give US men that know
and feel and are loyal to their convic-
tions.-Rev. W, Ii. Jordan, Methodist,
Minneapolis
The Saloon.
The saloon is the only institution on
earth possessing not one single redeem
Ing feature. From a moral, civil, eco
nomical or commercial standpoint, not
one thing can be said in its Defense
Rev. William 3. Beauchamp, Metho-
dist, Louisville.
Modesty.
The characteristic that all men, even
the worst of them, most respect a wom-
an for her sweet modesty, her best
friend, her safeguard from evil, her
moral protection. She who refuses or
neglects to heed its least prompting is
In danger.-Rev. NJ. G. Dickinson, Bap-
fist, Hoboken.
Art Is a marvellous thing. 1t is able
to take the common and produce the
beautiful. Life is enriched because Of
the spiritual. Supreme art is the art
of living. There is no other realm that
has such materials, no other that las
such possibilities. Rev. G. T. Horn,
Methodist, Chicago.
Public Conscience.
The recent unprecedented exposure
of graft and corruption, or of wicked
ness in high places" plainly indicate
an awakening of the public conscience
to higher and better things, and point
with certainty to a final reign Of right
eousness-Rev. Septimus ]. Hanna,
Christian Scientist. Boston
The Road to God.
A man may hold high converse yet
perform a low service. His reverence
for God has committed 20 him the Sc
crets of an ever-abiding Lord. 1t mat
tiers not where he be or If his tasks are
trivial, he is on the road which leads
nearer to God-Rev. John T. Goucher,
Methodist, Baltimore.
Wisdom.
Wisdom is won by the discipline Of
life as truly as by the discipline of the
schools, and many young college grad
uate has learned by bitter experience
that he cannot afford to despise the
judgment Of men with less book learn
Ing but greater life wisdom-Rev. DR..
Fem, Episcopalian, Bsoton.
The Absentee God.
The idea of an absentee God has
been calamity to the race. What hui
manity needs Is not a God locked up
In heaven amist saints and angels, but
one living and moving among us, who
cares for us, pities US and helps us as a
father cares for his child.-Rev. George
B. Vosburgh, Baptist, Denver.
Human Liberty.
For the man who realizes the soil
darity of human society there is no
such thing as absolute liberty. Human
liberty is relative, and he enjoys most
of it who most fully acquiesces In those
laws and measures which contribute
the greatest good to the greatest num-
ber-Rev. William Y. Chapman, Pres
byterian, Roseville.
Human Suffering.
II the very Son of God suffered for
the unjust that He might explain Gods
dealings with men, we can also enter
them into unjust sufferlngs for others,
that Jesus Christ may be glorif1ed in
US as we eIemplify His character of
self-denial and forgiveness in the hour
Of severest trial.-Rey. N. L. Blaney,
Methodist, Providence.
Source of Crime.
A man may read 1ut Of his creed the
story Of Adams fall; he may class 1t
among the myths Of his race, but he
may as well deny the universal law
that like produces like as to deny that
a great many of the sins and crimes OF
the present generation are traceable to
the irdulgent and criminal sins Of
disobedient ancestry.-Rev. Donald d.
Mckay, Presbyterian, Minneapolis,
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