Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1896 — Short Sermons, [ARTICLE]

Short Sermons,

Character.—The building of character is what constitutes true and enduring prosperity. The making of character In In line with God’s plan for the world! It is not true that every man Is as good as every other man, but It is true, now and ever, that every man has an equaj right with every other man. Charactei is what a man is, what he shall be amj by which he shall be judged at the last day.—Rev. B. L. Whitman, Baptist, Washington. Liquor License.—A licensed saloon is a legitimate loafing place and a breeder of vice and crime. The revenue from license is not paid by the wealthy, but by the poor, and chiefly by the poor women and children, who are deprived < .food and clothing to pay the saloonkeeper. Every one who votes to license a saloon is partlceps crlininls to every suicide or murder or woe that comes from that saloon.—Rev. W. R. Good-win;-'Methodist, San Francisco. Life Principles.—Christianity brought Into the world three great energizing principles of life—the divine fatherhood, human brotherhood, immortality. Christ came to briug a more abundant life. He -was the life as well as the light of men. God's fatherhood overarches the world with a dome that fails to cover none. Human brotherhood is inclusive of all races and pebples. The immortality makes man the citizen of two worlds.—Rev. Dr. Gunnison, Unlversalist, Worcester, Mass. Religion in America.—The trouble with American religion is that it has got so far beyond the divine law that men leave it behind when they go into business or public life. If'we have in dur Mnd a republic of raving and roaring tigers, we must stock our stores arid our caucuses, our boards of trade arid our council chambers., our legislative halls' and our executive mansions With ' some of the righteousness of the divine law. Our Christianity needs to'get 1 a new inspiration 'f'rqrti the life Ofu<lts founder.—Rev. if. H. Harris, Übivtrsallst, Reading, Pa