The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-07-15

Brooklyn.
To Do Good Work.
Mans intellect needs the impact Of
Gods truth. Man in order to do good
work must see the heavens open and
Christ standing by the throne Of God.
Rev. y. d. Hills. Congregationalist'
Brooklyn.
Effect Of Selfshness.
Self love is different from seldshness.
Love Of self is a duty. but selhshness
Is sin. Selfshness leads a man to
think only Of himself and to trample
upon the rights Of others.-Rev. W. g.
Partridge. Baptist. Pittsburg-
Our Moral Habitat.
To lie down and sleep in a snow
bank is no more perilous TO health
than bad company and unholy places
are to morals and character. Our en-
vironment is to a large extent our
moral habitat-Rev. DR.. John Thomp-
son. Methodist Episcopal, Chicago.
Religions Function.
II is not the function Of religion to
make people alike. as we once sup
posed. but to give them the right kind
OF unllkenesses-to take out Of their
unlikenesses that element that causes
hatred and antagonism and to subsu-
tute in its place sympathy. charity
cooperation aud love.-Rev. E. Stan
ton Hodgin. Unitarian. Los Angeles.
Cal.
Heaven.
He who gets heaven within his own
soul will find heaven all about The
sun creates its own glorious environ
ment. The flower perfumes all the
air around 1t. Truth soon makes
clearing in the forests Of unbelief.
Life begets life. Joy is contagious.
The fittest survives. THE meek shall
inherit the earth. Rev. Or. Charles
Edward Locke. Methodist. Los Ange-
les, Cal
Rioht Use Of Wealth.
The river Of wealth Is as potential
for good as for evil Let all therefore
endeavor to turn this mighty tide Into
the broad channels Of human needs.
for everything liveth whittier the river
cometh Then the great ministry OF
wealth will not be to turn the world
into a wilderness. but the wilderness
into the garden Of the Lord.-Rev. Ed
win Whittier Caswell, Methodist Epis-
copal Brooklyn.
Greatest FraternsI Organization.
The greatest fraternal organization
in the world Is the church. Even In
its imperfections 1t Is doing more for
humanity than any other organization.
If 1t becomes nodded after the thought
Of Christ, it's founder, there will be no
need Of any other social or fraternal
organization. He himself made pro-
vision for a time when the church
shall be without spot or blemlsh or
wrinkle or any such thing" when
these human weaknesses and imper-
fections are all overcome. Then the
church will take possession Of society
then superstltions aud inconsistencies
will vanish and we shall have the
ideal in character and in civilization.
The best we can do for the world to-
day is to emphasize the life of Christ.
We cannot render any more effective
service than to enlarge the influences
which the church has already started
and which for lack of means it too
feebly conducts. Criticise Christians
and the church as we may, they are
today the best the world has.-Rev.
DR.. Johnston Myers, Baptist, Chicago.
What the Church Stands For.
The church Is not a building or a
system OF dOgmas or a scheme of
salvation. 1t is a body of people unit
ed by their love for God and for man
in acts of worship and Of service. In
these times it should allow for divided
interests and admit that moral, beney.
olent. public spirited lives can be lived
| by persons who do not care for the
church. Yet all men would do better
to cultivate the church and to mold II
according to the worlds present needs
It Is interested In what concerns men
today and in one way or another has
the power to produce earnest, progress
sive. useful lives. Its chief aim is to
cultivate character by the inspiration
OF worship and truth. 1t helps you
1t leads you to help Others. Join II
"for their sake" In order to be most
widely influential amid the sorrows
and wrongs of today let the church
hold itself independent of all parties
all social groups. Let it 80 deeper into
life than charities and keep itself
larger than all reforms, being the NOR
al power behind all reformers and
their differing ideas. The church Is
to teach the live worlds teachers and
inspire all heroes to their work. II
lives in the conduct rather than II
the hearts of It's members. Only "a