The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-06-11
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teaching
Of All Denominations.

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Lamps on the Road to Faith.
Nature. mind. morals, Christ-these
are tie steps or the lamps ON The road
toward faith.-Rev Or. Albert J. Ly-
man. Consregauonalist Brooklyn.
The Church and ADJUSTMENTS.
All wholesome amusements are need
ed but instead Of trying to abolish
them the church should seek 10 purify
and uplift them.-Rev. 4. Z. Bartlett
Baptist, Chicago.
Sharing One Another's Joys.
You have a little joy, very little.
hardly enough TO keep your soul from
starving. share that joy with some
one in trouble, and when you return
you will find a great JOY In your heart.
REV. John Hopkins Dennison, Con-
gresationalist, Boston.
Inspiration.
Inspiration is not the attempt Of q
farof power TO put something into
your mind, but it is the effort your
mind is making to throw off from il
self perceptions Of spiritual truth
which were already there.-Rey. L. G.
3. Pierce. Unitarian Washington.
Man and the Universe.
The universe is not mans Inferior In
intelligence but the moment he can
rise in knowledge TO grasp her secrets
she yields her vast wealth and as a
servant emancipates her new found
master from the slavery TO toil.-Rev.
Claude II. Priddy. Episcopalian, Brook.
lyn.
To Reform the Unbrotherly.
Men cannot be driven into the king
dom Of God with the butt end Of a
horsewilip. Honest brotherly feeling
exhibited in sincere speech and be-
hayior Will do more to reform the I'M
brotherly than all the acts Of legisla-
lures can do.-Rev. James B. Clayton.
Baptist, Washington.
A Great Moment.
Righteousness and peace and joy.
healthy and holy living-that is the
city Of God TO US. When the church
realizes the realism Of that idealism it
viii again experience a great mo-
ment" and reach the life Of our time
and DO its part in winning this world
10 the knowledge and love Of Cod
Rev. Caleb S. S. Dutton. Unitarian,
Brooklyn.
Religion Losing Its Backbone.
Our type Of Christianity today, while
benevolent and gentle. is not at all TO
bust. We are developing a very tender
and lily-like religion. with the note Of
the militant very much -stilled. Reli-
giously our danger is that we Will
grow a spinal column incased not in
vertebrae. but in gutta percha.-Rev.
Arthur C. Archibald. Baptist. Brock
ton, Mass
Winning Souls.
What great achievement II is when
a skillful physician has snatched back
a human life from the very jaws Of
death and thus enabled il to live many
years more. But how much greater
the snatching Of a soul out OF the
jaws Of eternal death and bringing IL
into the possession Of "the power OF
an endless life."-Rev. DR.. John III.
Kerr, Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
Modern Publicity Good.
Ignorance is the mother Of evil. Il
is the greatest foe of the church.
Everything that we do nowadays is
being gathered up and published. We
believe in publicity. Its beneficial re-
suits are being everywhere recognized.
II there are great deeds done in this
church or in the community. tell of
them. II there are sanity lives con-
secrated TO high and noble purpose,
let the world know about them. If
there is good In the church. make II
public. - Rev. DR.. G. Ernest Smith,
Episcopalian, Washington; ---r--
Value Of Alleviatine Sorrow. -.
Never do you approach nearer to
Sod than when you alleviate the sor-
rows of others. Never do you prove
yourselves to be the children Of your
Heavenly Father more efTectualy than
when you bring sunshine to hearts that
we're darker ed by the clouds Of adver-
ity. Never do you perform a deed
more like to the creative act of the
Almighty than when you cause the
lowers Of joy and gladness 70 bloom.
n souls that were desolate and barren
iefore. - Cardinal Gibbons, Roman
'atholic, Baltimore .ln,-s~~~z
The chureh's Great Moment.
The supreme moment for the church
es in the fact that. modern society is
nding out that it cannot live by bread
One: that IN our boosted secular sue
sss lies not the satisfaction it Graves;
lat those invisibles we call love. Joy,
sace, temperance. meekness. faith, the
'mmodities known as fidelity. COM
deship. trust the disciplines by
hich man becomes conscious Of his
st self, C the divine IN him and
ound him-that these are articles our
ealth cannot supply-Rev. Caleb S.
Dutton, Unitarian, Brooklyn.