The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-07-22
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
Of All Denominations.

Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
Of All Denominations.
The things that are Of the utmost i'm
porrance are new heart, new life
and a new character Rev. ]. f. Nc
Cornell. Congregationalist. Providence
K. 1.
How God Uses Music.
Music is one Of Gods avenues OF
speaking 70 man some Of his best
emotions and aspirations.-Rev. G. A
Jameson. Presbyterian. Tottenville-
NY.
knowledge and Personality.
Personality is the basis Of all our
knowledge. Persons are the most real
and substantial objects of our knOwl-
edge.-Rev. W. A. Cameron. Baptist.
London. Canada.
Earnestness.
II the will. the heart and the con
science Of man are sincerely set upon
single object the laws Of reason can
be overcome.-Rev. W. Walsh, Roman
Catholic. New York.
First Real Love.
Christ's love for man was the hrst
real love and the base Of religion. and
mans was secondary. Gods love for
mankind caused him 10 suffer because
he beheld power and high ideals IN
mau.-Rev. r. B. Short. Methodist.
Salt Lake City.
An Earthly Heaven.
The home is the place where charac
ter is grown. II is the one place on
earth which can become the most like
heaven II is there that love and
sympathy dwell There may be enc
mics and treacheries without. but
within its sacred Enclosure is heaven
II love and harmony only dwell there.
Homes not merely four square walls.
Though with pictures hung and gided.
Home is where affection calls.
Filled with shrines the heart hath builded.
REV. Or. Charles Bayard Mitchell.
Methodist Episcopal. Chicago.
LIE OF progress.
The Christian life demands progress
There are too many who look upon the
life Of a Christian as being one OF de-
struction and denial-the destruction
Of passions aud the denial Of pleasures
This is wrong conception. II is %
life Of activity. life In which one is
continually pressing toward the mark.
forgetting the things that are behind
d The secret lies In filling our lives with
good acts that we have no room for
evil Walk in the spirit and ye shall
not fulfill The ustS OF the flesh Ours
is a positive life. a life of creating new
desires rather than the crushing Of old
ones. IL must be life OF progress. -
Rev. Charles d. Trexler. Lutheran.
Brooklyn.
Outcome Of Humility.
The cultivation OF humility has
brought forth unnumbered benefits To-
the world. From IL has come that re-
fnement Of human intercourse called
courtesy which. with its twin sister
chivalry. constitutes the noblest be
quest that was ever made by an age
of darkness TO an age Of light. Into
political and international relations il
has infused a spirit Of Cancellation and
grace. In its social aspect II has stood
for mutual consideration and recOe
milton of the rights and privileges of
all men without regard TO condition.
creed or color. Ii has tanned the ferOc-
ity Of disputants and tempered the
bitterness of partisans. In qualifying
the dogmatism Of the scientist and the
critic and the theologian It has brought
down the mighty from their seats
Humility Is a virtue for which Chris
tianity Is most largely responsible 10
our modern wOrld.-Rev. Or. st. Clair
Hester. Episcopalian. Brooklyn.
Works Inspired by Faith.
A man attains to full faith by the
venturesome identification Of ones life
with the ideal value Of existence.
Faith is not a manufacture OF man. II
is a work OF God in man. To have
faith is to be laid hold Of. not TO lay
hold Of It must be a power which
apprehends US. which takes the initia-
tive. Men OF faith understand Gods
meaning: therefore they proclaim the
future. dare to go ways from which
others shrink back. have an eye 10
reality which is not there yet, which
will be there. though. and which IS
coming. II faith is Gods Work. then
we cannot make il. We cannot force
ourselves 10 faith. Yet 1t depends
much on ourselves. Faith Is Y work
Of God and yet deed Of man. We
must meet Gods work with our work.
The faith which God creates is a call.
an enticing We must answer In faith.
II is really perhaps the greatest work
Of the soul to have this faith. TO keep
It. TO stand by IT, To have faith Is 10
venture on faith. to do things by faith.
Rev. George b. Foster. Unitarian.
\ Chicago.
Prayer as a Channel to the Divine.
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