Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-06-05
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teaching,
CT All Denominations.


belief-Rev Father William j. Dalton
Roman Catholic. Kansas City.
Beginning Of Happiness.
To be clear Of guilty conscience
| and to feel that you are right with
God and your fellow men is the begin
ming of happiness.-Rev DR.. Broughcr,
Baptist, Los Angeles. Cal.
Room For God.
A sordid, secular spirit which leaves
| little or no room for God and sacred
things cannot perceive the real joy of
| those who separate from self and sin
and behold in Christ the brightness of
the Fathers glory and the express i'm
! age of his person.-Rev. w. w. Case,
Methodist, San Francisco.
Heaven and He'll.
He'll is state of mind Every man
builds his own hell, carries his own
! fire and birthstone, as he does his own
! happiness and sunshine. Just as char
acter divides us here so 1t will divide
the good from the bad hereafter and
thus form heaven and hell.-Rev. Will
liam w. BASTARD. Baptist. Boston.
Lifelong Problem.
The appeal to the emotions profits
little unless there is basis in reason.
| Sensationalism in religion pays ex
tremely small dividends in permanent
character building. A night of confess
sion amounts to nothing unless 1t be
followed by many days of service. Sal
walton is not an instantaneous process.
but a lifelong problem.-Rev. A. Eu-
gene Bartlett, Chicago.
lndestructbiIity of Life.
Life is continuous. Every man has
| chain in which he Is the first link. A
second link is added to No. l and a
third to No. and fourth to No. g.
and on and on these links go as we in
fuence men. You cannot destroy life
If this is not enough to make a man
stop and think don't know what will
be. God help us to take that thought
now and let us stop this life of sim
Rev. DR.. Len G. Broughton, Baptist,
Atlanta, Ga.
Spiritual Fatherhood.
Are you the real father of your boy ?
Have you had anything to do with his
larger development? Is the real boy
your boy? mo. no." you say. 81 didn't
have time. You know | was a very
busy man." We can't get along with
out spiritual fatherhoOd. If you haven't
pains enough and time enough and
conscience enough to give your boy
this, for Gods sake let somebody else
do 1t for you.-Rev. Frank w. GunSau-
lus. Independent. Chicago.
Sentiments Value.
Sentiment has a place and a service
in life. In your hour of weakness or
sickness what cheer is brought you by
| the flowers or love expressions which
soon fade or are gone! But in this
short life they have told their story to
your heart and put you again on your
feet In so doing they have wrought
for larger life by so much as you in
your strength are able to put force
and quality into that life.-Rev. A. NJ.
Campbell, I'resby terian. st. Louis.
God In the CHURCH.
The church has Only one reason for
existing today. as it has always bad.
1t Is this-that God is present in it.
You may think you have many needs.
but there is only one thing You truly
| need. for which you should come TO
church. and that is God. The church
can never be IL power to save the world
and TO which all men will turn until
you believe that God Is truly present
here God can never he present in all
his power in any one man, in any mere
| symbol. There is only one way to
move the world-God present in you
| all. And there Is only one way to ac-
cempiish this-you must come to
church for that one purpose.-Rey.
John Hopkins Denis0p. Congregation
alist. Boston.
! Endearments important.
Endearing nothipgs have great
| service In life's success. Stern lands
which cultivate repression Of affection
| as unmanly rob life Of one of it's best
helps. There II more philosophy than
bald utiltarapSm. You teach your
boy prose and what men call practical
matters because 1t Is of today's pur-
chasing power America believes In
| what it Is pleased to call the practical
and is ready too oft to lift the lip at
the poetries of life. Reunions and me-
MORALS keep alive the precious senti-
| mentS they represent. Salvation is
more than being carried by some
strong arm out of danger. Your sal
walton has been effected by an arm
which lovingly presses as well as
strongly carries. And 1t is a saliva
ton which employs terms of endear-
| ment.-Rev. A. Nj. Campbell, Presby-
terrain, st. Louis.
The Upward Look.
Where God is there is boundlessness
of vision. Only as we see him is there
chance for hopefulness. AS the eye
will often hold the light after a steady
gaze at it and bear in itself deeting
illumination of other things. so the
look upward to God will help US to see
the earth and our fellows and our
selves In the light of his light. That Is
the way to be cheerful. Look up, and
not down, nor in, nor around. Look
up for courage and around for oppor-
tunity and within for the hardest task
of all. There are more wonderful
things than airships In the zenith.
There are gliInpses of the love of God
hat make our own souls ascend. There
are sights of his mercy that make the
clogs Of sin about our feet feel less
heavy. There are visions of forgive
ness that make the blush of shame
less hot on our cheeks. There are rays
of light that chase away the gloomy
despair that settles down upon our
spirits. We look in the wrong place
for all these things when we look
where than up.-Rev. W. G. Biting,
Baptist. ST. Louis.
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