The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-03-06

better today than in ancient times. Who
has not known rare gems for whom this
earth proved 100 narrow and they burs
the bounds of time and became immor
tai in early years? The subject of the
proper control of the thoughts has beer
much discussed from philosophical
standpoint. Today at the Methods
church we hear it discussed not only
philosophically but from Biblical stand
point, from the text els thy heart
right" If the love of God does not
make person better to get along with,
it is because IL gets lodged in the cloth
ing, in the sensibilities or in the intellect
and does not get down into the motive
power of the soul. The heart is some
times diseased, has fatty degeneration
or leaky valves. This weaker the body.
The heart of the soul is sometimes dis
eased and does not produce good circula-
ton. The hands do not perform good
works, or the tongue does not speak the
right word at the right time. If per-
son listens to a sermon regularly, week
after week and year after year, and does
not enjoy talking with fellow mortal
on the subject, the moral and spiritual
health of that person becomes serious
problem.
Another Illustration given at the Bap-
tist Sunday school in the afternoon,
bears on this subject. People, like oys-
tiers, are dug from the mud and washed,
and then some of them cling to the shell
of ignorance, superstition and Pharasee .
ism. How many are like Lincoln, who
when he found hims( If laboring at a
disadvantage resolved to go home and
study law? How many can combine
the tender heart of the man who
sent the dying message of the Con-
federate boy to his mother under a
flag of truce with the dauntless courage
OF the man who could say mo" when
importuned to save the life of man
who had deserted the ranks and joined
the enemy in time of battle? | heard
the man tell the story who went with
the captured man and his mother to
plead with Lincoln for his life. He look
ed the man straight in the eye and said:
captain, it can't be done" But, to
continue the Methodist discourse, whic n
was in perfect harmony with Lincoln S
characteristics, perfect health or good
circulation in body and soul produce s
dauntless courage The speaker was
once called TO The bedside Ct dying
woman. He went, thinking she would
want him to pray or sing with her to en-
courage her on the way. No." said
she, Il have done my praying. ] want
ed you here to see how 2 person passes
over the river to the evergreen shore
This is not dying, it is Just beginning to
live, just shuffiing off these clements of
earth and sterling on a journey of end
less felicity"
At the Baptist Sunday school after
reading the international lesson, instead
of discussing whether God made tie
bow and placed it in the heavens at the
partieu'a ar time that it was de Jared to
be a sign that there Should never be an
otner flood, the time was spent discuss
ing as to what SHOULD be our attitude
toward the Catholic and his church. In
cldentally the question was raised, what
should be our attitude toward those who
advance doctrines in our own church of
which We and the majority disapprove?
Facts were cited in history. When a Mr..
Campbell could not get pulpit in his
own church, an eruption took place, a
new denomination was started 1t is
better 10 allow any man to express his
views even if they are false. The pollu-
tons will become oxidlzed when exposed
to the pure atmosphere. Such has beer
the fundamental though much abused
principle of professionalism. 1t is better
to think wrong than not to think at all,
providing the thinking becomes clarified
before it materiallZes into acts.
The Catholic has the same right to
his opinion that | have to mine If the
influence of the Catholic church should
he blotted out of this nation anarchy
would prevail. Any institution essential
to large part of our population is de-
serving of our sympathy.
In the evening we listened to a lecture
on our boy problem, which was declared
to be greater than our financial, political
or any other problem. We were shown
pictures on the screen illustrating all
the different means taken to awaken the
boys interest and win his love. But
supposirg father has hired the money
to show his much cherished son the
beauties of city life and allowed him to
ruin the best horse on the farm driving
around to see the beauties of the country
and he has inbred and taught into him
by generations of maternal ancestry
that this world is so progressive that a
boy of eighteen knows more than his
father and that man has no rights that
his family is bound to respect. What
THEN. CdIl any tHlIlS SNORT OF Cne pray
ers Of all Chrstendom make man of
such boy. When we contemplate the
sins of the race from Adam to the pres
ent time, it is hard to realize:
"That nothing walk with aimless feet;
That not one life shall be destroyed,
Or last as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete
"Wouldst thou the highest life know; the atom
can whisper its secret. What that Is without
will, that be thou, man, with will"
According to A. H. Bradford of Con-
gregational fame, we have an eternal
Father filling all space. We see his
perfect offspring, or an offspring
actuated by Himself, in outward ma
ture and in the person of Christ Our
spiritua! Father, who is partially
revealed in nature and in Christ, ap-
pears to his hayward offspring as a
good spirit and is called in scripture the
Holy Ghost. Thus we have three mani
festations of God, triumphant God in
the Father and the Son and the same
God striving with men. Everyone
should read the teachings of Christ, the
most notable character in history, and
note in what respect he claims to be
different from his followers. Notice
how fully he is actuated by that spirit
with which others merely strive. Where
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