Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-03
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From, the Teachings
of All Denominations.


The church that makes the best men
and women is the best ehurch.-Rey.
S. ID. Paine. Methodist. Jacksonville.
Fla.
knowiedgs.
A mind may be well stored with
knowledge and yet have no system of
thinking. knowledge is the raw ma
/ terial OF an educatiOn.-Rev. j. w
Francis. Presbyterian, Parkersburg.
. Va.
Reaction.
Everything we do. good or bad, re
acts on the body. leaving a little rut
there in which we are quite sure to
run again the next time we go that
way.-Rev. DIR. Bowser. Baptist At
laBta. Ga.
Labor and Capital.
The prosperity OF labor and capital
IS interdependent One cannot subsist
without the other any more than the
brain could live without the support of
the stomach. the heart. the liver and
the other organs.-Cardinal Gibbons
Roman Catholic. Baltimore.
Lies handspring.
The handspring of life is success.
Success and failure are relative terms
and depend on ones particular view
point But there is something in life
| besides making money. There is
something more for men than convert
ing themselves into machines for coin
ing shekels.-Rev. J. n. Hail. MethO-
, dist. Oak Park. Ill.
Use Of Money.
II the possessor of money does not
know how to use it rightly IL becomes
curse. When put to a right use il
becomes n blessing not only TO the
man who has the pleasure of using It.
but to all mankind. Whether money
shall be a curse or benefit depends
upon the personality OF the man pos
sessing it.-Rey. y. II. Boynton. Con
gregationalist. New York.
Value Of Prayer.
There are those 10 whom the word
prayer is Synonymous with religion.
reverence and Righteousness. II sug-
gests the highest and hottest expert
| ences. To take prayer out Of the
world would be to destroy hope To
/ them there is a cleansing and purify
| ing experience that goes with prayer
that gives 1t its chief value. Life with
out prayer would be sordid and mean.
To pray is as normal and natural as 10
breathe. and TO be deprived OF the one
privilege would seem to them as fatal
rs the other-Rev. f. Stanton Hodgin
] Unitarian. Los Angeles. Cal.
The Model Life.
The simple life" held attention only
awhile THE strenuous life" wearies
all. But the life of Jesus never varies
| from its place in mems thoughts. II
is the copy, the model life. of the
world 1t has that message at least
for all. The details and manner Of
! human life change with country aud
century. but the principles OF that one
| life are recognized as those of the
highest human life everywhere and in
all ages The limitation OF Christ is
mans struggle for perfection-to be in
fullest sense "as he is in this world. -
Rev. Frederick H. Knubel, Lutheran.
New York
God Intends Us to Rest.
God has implanted in each Of us an
| instructive love for those things which
/ will bring rest to mind and body. We
need TO unbend We need TO relax
muscle and rest brain. Hence the play
element is our safety valve. Wit and
humor give rest and relaxation 90 the
I mind. People who never laugh have
/ poor stomachs and never live out half
their days. God intends his children
TO come to their best. He wants US TO
be fitted for work. and we can only be
best fitted for work when we have had
opportunity for the needed play.-Rev.
Or. Charles Bayard Mitchell. Metho-
dist Episcopal, Chicago.
Prime Question For Men.
One man is brilliantly endowed in
| tellectually. and his wits make the
work of life an easy success. Another
man is lowered with nothing but stub
born persistence and a strong body.
We are prone to spend our gray mat
ter bordering on the problem Of why
| God lets one man have so much and
another man have so little and in at
tempting 10 remedy the thing by some
| social or industrial scheme. This may
be sorely needed in our day. but the
| prime question for any man is not why
God did not give him as much as he
gave another. but TO see that he uses
what he has as God wants him to do
Rev. DIR. Joseph Vance. Presbyterian.
Chicago.
Our Eternal Occupations.
Death wrought few changes in his
life. and thus It viii be with ours
Eternal life on earth is the same as
eternal life I'm heaven. The one Is the
beginning OF which the other IS the
1 elimination. Our real ambitions here
will be our ambitions after death. The
motive that moves US here will move
as there If it be possible for that mo-
! tive 20 exist. Our real interests.
whether we are in heaven or on earth
| are the same. The essential things OF
earth are the essential things of heay-
eli. From the beginning Of his earth
| ~ life Christ taught that his suffering
and death for man were the purpose
Of his earthly life. and after his resur-
rection we hear him saying. ought
not Christ 10 have suffered these things
and entered into his eiOrys" After
his death the same conception of the
necessity OF his death and suffering
for mans salvation was declared By