The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1910-04-20
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
We must become more human If we
would become better and more civil.
lized.-Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, Hebrew,
Chicago.
Men of Power.
A fiery furnace or lions den make
little impression upon a man of Dan.
iel-like character. Praying men are
men of power.-Rev. DR.. John L
Stone. Presbyterian. Chicago.
Developer of Character.
Religion with education brings on;
the young man in all his character,
shows tie formation and basis of his
character and ideas.-Rev. p. E..
O'Hare. Roman Catholic. Brooklyn.
True Greatness.
The really great man is he who in
spite of his relation to carnality and
sin leaps beyond or mounts the skies
and rises above all foggineSs and little.
ness.-Rev. 7. A. Moefat, Congrega-
tionalist. Newark. N. j.
Preparation For the Future.
The best preparation for a good life
tomorrow is living well today. The
best preparation for another life is
the best use of the life that now is
Use and not abuse the worId.-Rev. A.
B. Beresford. Universalist Baltimore.
Look Out For Your Character.
The man who is narrow and sordid
in his youth will be narrow and sordid
all his life Young men should know
that the greatest asset they can have
in this life is character.-Rev. W. c.
Robinson, Presbyterian, Philadelphia.
Crises and Ideals.
Life has many crises. Every ideal
met is crisis-every duty. every vi
sion of better things Ideals come
upon US in movements. Their realiza-
ton may take a Iifetime.-Rev. VIII
liam Forkell. Peoples Church, Aurora,
Ill
Functions of the Spirit.
To think. to love and to will are
functions of the spirit The object of
thought is truth. the object of love is
goodness, the object of the will is to
keep the personal powers in order
Rev. j. f. Goucher. Methodist, Balti-
more.
Test of Ones Religion.
A Christian will be busy being neigh.
Dor to some one who is in need. The
most evident test of a mans religion
VIII be found in his attempts to do
something for some other.-Rev. Will
liam Fl. Day, Congregationalist, Los
Angeles. Cal.
Reward For Small Acts.
The slightest and most insignificant
action performed in a state OF grace
and done from the love of God with a
pure intention is worthy of merit
which will one day be transformed
into glory.-Rev. j.. S. NJ. Lynch, Ro-
man Catholic. Utica, N. Y.
The Price of Progress.
If In any relation in life progress Is
to be made we must pay the price, and
the testimony of the ages is that no
price is too great which buys for us
freedom of manhood and womanhood.
which breaks the shackles of inteIlec-
tual and moral slayery.-Rev. DR.. Wal.
ter Galley, Baptist, Jamaica Plains.
Mass.
Our Share In Gods Out of Doors.
1t is beautiful garden into which
God has introduced us. The fresh air
and the sunshine, the quiet and re-
freshing resting places. the flowers
md the birds. the waving corn and
he silver moonlight. the ripping riv-
ers and the mountain stilInesses-it
IS Gods out of doors and ours. 1t
S ours. but in it God has a share
We are to dress and keep it for him.
When Gods sunlight and fresh air are
lenied the children In tenement or
'weatshop, office or factory; when the
crystal streams of cities and towns
ire made channels of filth and fouu-
aims of impurity. breeding places for
disease; when children are asked to
play on cobblestones or in blind al
eys instead of in fields of living green:
when schools have their Fairgrounds
n cellars; when disgraceful billboards
car the face of nature and vice is
segregated upon the streets of a great
Christian city. we are false to our
rust.-Rev. DIR. Hugh T. Kerr, Pres
Chicago.
The immortal Hope.
Growing all other gifts is mans
instructive hope of Immortality. Man
S the only animal who ever lifts a
,ravestone and publishes his convic-
ions that the soul lives forever. The
Of this physical universe with !
is myriad worlds makes 1t unthink-
bile that our earth alone Is Inhabited.
there must be other realms where men
i've and love and invent and sing. pray
nd aspire. But the truth and the
and the good are the same
n all worlds. All souls when they
Deet will be brothers. Mans love Of
lfe, the overequipment for his little
rena of threescore years. his revolt
rom death. his uncompleted sciences
nd arts and tools. his half wrought
lws. his imperfect liberties. all ask
mother life. Death finds every work
T with his task half done. Something
to death approaching: TOO
hort! The time Is too shortr' Rea-
on building cities is a tall angel. but
hath wings and forehead
hat brush against the sky. Looking
own on Reason. Faith and Love
Fhisper encouragement and point to-
7ard the stars. What weight of char
cter and beauty shall be wrought In
be soul when time and those that
well beyond have completed their
Ministry doth not yet appear. What
re do know encourages the hope that
II that Is the seed here shall be tb~
heat there: that the portico shall give
ray to the temple The star fades
ecause the sun rises IN full splen-
or. The morning shall pass because
Ugh noon hath come Rev. DR.. New
Il Dwight Hills. CongregationaliSt.
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