Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-04-29
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.


Of All Denominations.
The heart Of love is self sacrifice in
behalf Of others.-Rev. J. A. Henry, /
Baptist, Los Angeles. Cal
Indication Of Religion.
We have just as much religion as |
shown In our ways and doings. Rev.
E. w. Smith. Presbyterian. Louisville.
Ky.
Best Of Books.
The Bible is the best uI all books. II |
passes as iron into the blood aud gives |
yigor to the whitley. W. c. Stinsun. |
Reformed. New York.
How to Reflect God.
God Is the light of the soul. II we |
shall absorb the spiritual light we shall |
reflect the great Creator.-Rev. L. Il. |
Phreaner, Methodist, Providence, r. l. |
Value Of Example.
II you want your children TO follow
Christ follow him yourselves; If you
want them to go to church come with
them.-Rev. NJ. ID. Shutter, Presbyte-
rian. Minneapolis, Mimi.
Like Introduction Letters.
Every Christian is like letter of
Introduction. introducing the sinless
Christ to the unbelieving world. But
letters of introduction vary in their
value.-Rev. W. G. Partridge. Baptist.
Pittsburg.
Common Blessings.
The common blessings of life are
more to be thankful for than great
wealth, great genius or great power.
The common blessings are health,
friends, home and honest work.-Rev
DIR. William Il. Manning, Episcopalian,
New York.
Sincerity In Prayer.
Secret prayer Is the unerrlng ther
mometer to our life of prayer. If ever
we are sincere in prayer it is when
We are in secret prayer Ii Is then. If
ever, that we are conscious of God
Rev. DR.. George W. Truett, Baptist.
Dallas, Tex.
Forces to Overthrow Evil.
We see the menace of great evils In
society and i'm the state. and we grow
discouraged. But that is because.
while evil is so conspicuous, the forces
that are set for its overthrow are in
visible.-Rev. J. A. Morris. Presbyte
rian, Glen Cove, n. Y.
The Good and Bad.
No woman is Il good woman who
spurns domestic love, hates home and
calls children an inCumbrance. The
chief charm of a woman is her pure
faith and a holy life. Nothing out Of
hell is so ugly as a bad woman; moth
Ing out of heaven Is so beautiful rs
good woman.--Rev. Or. Charles Bay
ard Mitchell, Methodist Episcopal, Chi
cago.
When Life Sparkles With Joy.
Look on the bright side. The world
is full OF beauty, and life sparkles
with JOY to the mblurred vision. 1t is
our gloomy spirits that diStort our
view The worst evils are imagined
ones that never come to pass. Let us
look for love and goodness and beauty
and happiness aud we will tread Il
fragrant, empowered way.-Rev. Jul
MUS B. Remensnyder, Lutheran, New
York.
The Milennal Age.
The great blessing of forgiveness of
sins which are past and even the
blessing of being awakened from the
sleep Of death would profit mankind
but little If the arrangements of that
future time-the millennial age-were
not on such a scale as To permit
thorough recovery from present men
! tai, moral and physical weakness
Rev. C. +. Russell, Congregationalist.
Cincinnati.
Self Control.
True self control is called by st.
Paul a fruit of the spirit" for So
| temperance" is to he translated.
, True self control comes by submitting
( ourselves to God, putting ourselves III
| the grasp of and in allegiance with
power that is stronger than we are
Such was the method of the Master.
Because he lived in closest communion
with the Father his life was the EN-
bodiment OF all spiritual and heavenly
grace. We can all follow his method.
AS Lowell says. I'VE are all tall
| enough to reach Gods hand, and an
gels are no taller" By living in com
| muniOn with God, rs Jesus dld, we
\ shall be able, like him. to still the
voice of anger, check the hot spirit OF
revenge. cool the fevered torrent OF
ambition, curb the threatening ascend
ency of passions, as master curDs
his dog-attain, In short, true self CON
trol.-Rey. De Witt l.. Pelton, In. u,
/ Episcopalian, New York.
The "New Man."
The best that is in man, the feeling
that he is part Of the human race ana
mot unit In himself, is everywhere
making itself manifest. The social
good is gradually ascending to the
plane above the personal good. Inc
new man, the progressive, the one
who is to make the history of the fu-
ture, leaves the fatherland of thought
and seeks the childenland. The VOWS
of early religion do not bind him In
the present as they have in the past.
The deep, strong thinking of religious
philosophers is gaining sway. And be
the seeker for the better individualist
or socialist, he is a religionist of the
sincerest type. His yearning is not for
| the fountain where he may indulge
himself in pensive pleasures, but for
| the broad field of life where humanity
lives. The new man is self achieve
ment, a self creation. He is made of
seN and of the world. and unless these
tun noIaS which ever seek each other