Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-05-20
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.

RELIGIOUS IHOU6HT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
True religion has To do with the ac.
tual conduct In daily llfe.-Rev. f. W.
Smith, Presbyterian. Louisville, Ky.
Acquiring of Faith.
AS knowledge is got by hard study
and wealth by hard labor and econo-
my, so faith is got by practice and
toil.-Rev. II. c. Morrison. Methodist.
Birmingham. Ala.
Gods Voice.
To the Christian the voice Of nature
is the voice of Cod The visible world
is full Of the symbols of the spiritual
world.-Rev j. \. Morris. Presbyte-
rian, Glen Cove n Y.
When Silence Harms.
Too many Of Gods peOnle are dumb.
They hold their peace. even from good
BY their silence they deny their Lord
and Master.-Rev. W W. Deckard.
Methodist, Providence. Il. |.
A Thinkers Duty.
You have not done your duty as a
thinker if you have left uneAamined
and unconsidered the great Christ
problem of the world-Rev. J "
Francis, Presbyterian. Parkersburg.
W. Va.
Largest Returns.
One of the most hopeful features of
the religious question today is the
realization that religion pays the lar
gest possible returns for the smallest
investment.-Rev. f. w. Hunt, Unita-
rian, Boston.
Power Of the Spiritual Self.
A mans spiritual self pervades and
possesses his material body, jus; as
magnetism pervades and possesses
Iron or as God pervades and possesses
the universe a. Arundel. Epis.
copalian, PittSburg.
Unehangeabl BILE In His Visor.
While all human institutions and
governments are subject to the law of
birth. development, decay and death,
the religion Of Christ maintains her
vigor unimpaired. Cardinal Gibbons.
Roman Catholic. Baltimore.
Cleaning Up.
A cleaning up should be n cleaning
up and not moving around. 1t will
not mean anything as a whole to shOv-
el up load Of filth from one place and
simply move 1t to another-Rev. G. T..
Guthrie, Episcopaian. Washington.
Victory and Defeat.
Defeat aud failure in business OF
life, In our ambitions or plans are re.
suits we never welcome. Yet there
are many victories which are worse
than defeats and many apparent fail.
ures which are victories. .-Rev. +. l..
Phalen, Unitarian. Worcester, Mass.
Life's Problem.
Life is the essence Of being. and
there is nothing great and lasting but
life. 1t is the only reality. the one
permanent thing that extends through
all eternity. There must be some best,
some right way of living. and the
problem Is to find it.-Rev. c. f. Nash,
Methodist, Galesburg, III.
Duty of Christians.
Light IS an emblem of the love OF
God. As literally and persistently as
light crowds In wherever 1t possibly
can, 50 should Christians press home
In practical ways into every nook and
Of b1plan . ha - l.,
sua Christ The invisible Christ, who
Is the light of the world. should be re
produced in daily life To a large de
gree Christians are the worlds Bible
Every Christian should so live that he
would In a manly, sensible way remind
others Of the strong character of Jesus
Chrlst.-Rev. Albert Ehrgott. Baptist
Cleveland, o.
When Religion Becomes Real.
If religion Is friendship with God
and If God has entered into compan.
ionship with us then religion as friend
ship with God becomes vital and
beautiful reality. Mrs. Browning
asked Charles Kingsley to tell her the
secret of his happy and beautiful life
and he replied to her sympathetic, re-
quest, 81 had friend" Religion is as
simple and as sublime as human
friendship. Religion is not a conun.
drum or a puzzle problem, but the
meeting In the secret place of the soul
of a man and God.-Rev. Or. Hugh II
Kerr. Presbyterian. Chicago
Appreciation of the Dead.
If you love those who have gone be
fore do not hold up their beautiful
traits of character as mere show fol-
admiration, but manifest your appre-
citation of them by continuing them In.
your own life. 1t is far better to see
these marks of identity in your life
today than to preserve them only as a
sad memory. Mourning over the past
and those connected with it does them
no good and Is surrender of yourself
to the influence of your weakness and
cowardice. But brave taking up OF
what they have laid down and faith
full continuance of the good for which
you honor them will be a consistent
manifestation Of the sincerity Of your
love for them.-Rev. DR.. William
White Wilson. Episcopalian, Chicago.
A Good Religion.
A religion which can only pardon
and purify and then leave the soul
helpless against the powers of evil al
lowing it to yield hopelessly to its enc
mics, is not good religion If a re-