Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-06-10
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
Of Al Denominations.

fulness.-Rev. e. NJ. McGuffey. Epis-
copalian, Elmhurst. n. Y.
Power Of the Little Sin.
A little sin is the thin edge Of the
wedge. and when once inserted 1t can
be driven home till 1t splits and ruins
the life.-Rev. DIR. A. Ii. G. Morse. Bap-
tist, Brooklyn.
Easy to Convert.
The easiest person In the world to
reach with the gospel is not woman.
not a girl. not boy. but the man. To
get a person to accept the gospel you
must first make him think, and then
think.-Rev. J. w. Chapman. Evangel-
ist, Philadelphia.
Christianity's Real Test.
The real test Of Christianity is in its
uplifting power. 1t is solving social
problems. 1t is providing the purest
life we know. 1t is unselfshly bring
ing more tangible comfort to the hu-
man race than all the other means
combined.-Rev. Johnston Myers. Bap-
tist, Chicago.
Religion.
What the homing instinct Is to the
bird, religion ought to be to a man.
Reason, guided If by no more than
probability, dictates a degree Of re-
ligiousness in a man. A little religious
ness of the right kind always argues
for more.-Rev. e. II. Pence, Presby-
terian, Detroit, Mich
A Towns Valuable Assets.
Good men and good women are the
most valuable assets In any commu-
nifty. We must drive out all agencies
which destroy manhood and cultivate
all forces which make for the moral
training of our citizenship. People
make the town. and no town is good
whose bad people run it.-Rev. DR..
Charles Bayard Mitchell, Methodist,
Chicago.
Reward For Duty Doors.
No man need fear death In doing his
duty, because when the time comes for
him to be taken away the Master will
see to it. The man who is filling his
place in this world fully will burst
through into better things, for 1t is i'm
possible for man who is doing his
level best to remain In the same posi-
ton forever. Rev. Robert Watson.
Presbyterian. Cincinnati.
Danger of Prosperity.
What we want today Is that our pub
lie men, our business and professional
men. shall be not less but more re-
ligious than ever before. They should
be not less, but more intellectual, more
earnest and more honest. The greater
our material prosperity the greater the
danger that stares us in the face II we
ignore the higher and better and no
bier things.-Rev. John G, Scott Epis-
copalian, Hot Springs. Va.
The Ideal Religion.
The only religion that is ideal Is GER
tainly one wherein the religious i'm
pulses work spontaneously. one where
In in their working they move har-
moniously with all the other energies
of our life, one wherein we love with
out having to try to love and so with
out being acutely conscious Of the
fact that we do love, one wherein we
do right instinctively without realiza-
tion of effort and without effort, one
wherein our heart beats sympathetical-
ly with the heart of God without need
of quickening its pulse. without par
ticular realization that there is any
pulse there-a religion, In word, that
so inheres In our life as not to be in
any way distinct from life.-Rev. Dr.
Charles II. Parkhurst, Presbyterian
New York
Value Of Good Cheer.
Good cheer you will find to be the
groundwork of almost all lives Of
strong endurance and power. When
you reflect upon the spirit or disposi-
ton that is here included you are face
to face with some things more than
the mere popular idea Of cheerfulness.
1t is a spirit that will permeate all
the conditions Of being. Gods pure
sunshine let into the soul will affect
all other powers. 1t involves the pow
er to look upon life ever on the rosy
side-to see the best that is In ma
ture, to think the best Of your fellows
and when you cannot so think to dis
miss them from your mind. to crush
any, even the slightest, tendency to
| think bitterly Of another; to be kind
and loving, to see the bright side in
! everything. Rev. DR.. f. w. Clampett,
| Episcopalian, San Francisco.
How We May Sec Jesus.
If we would see Jesus we must
| make much Of his book. If we would
| know a person we must understand
| him. If we would trust person then
| our trust must be based on knowledge
Jesus cannot be seen, will not be gra-
ciously real to the man who neglects
the Bible. 1t is true that 1.-The heavens
declare the glory of God and the firma-
left to nature, the Bible taken away,
man cannot know Of Gods tenderness
and love, cannot know how to love
and trust and obey him properly
Though man might name every star
that blazes in the eternal depths
though he might map the heavens and
tell the consultations as his familiar
friends; though he might understand
the voice of the flowers; though he
might catch the monologues of the
mountains. the dirges of the oceans
the symphonies of the spheres; though
all nature might speak to him the
mighty secrets of it's origin and maker