Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1896 — Short Sermons. [ARTICLE]

Short Sermons.

Man*s Opportunity.—Society is the necessary prerequisite to individual advancement, and the nation is only the social setting of the individual. The supreme worth of the personal man we can never afford to lose sight of. Each one is to be a person with full powers, opportunities and responsibilities, going into society, not to lose, but to find himself.—Rev. M. Dana, Congregationalist, Brooklyn. Brotherhood.—lt was not until Christ came that the wofld had an adequate c/xhception of the protecting fatherhoqcj of God, and out of this conception has grown in these later years the fuller conception of the brotherbod of man. JeSus Impressed upon the world the thought of a God who had compassion for man in straits—God not simply as king and father, but as Savior.—Rev. E. F. Lee, Presbyterian, Brooklyn., America.—America is to be the leader of the nations. God is raising her up a second Israel to redeem and to lead mankind to a higher and holler plane. Great statesmen have seen what a mighty part we are to play in. the drama of the nations, and Darwin, who deals only in cold facts, Intimates that the world’s history has been tory for our future.—Rev. Charles fIL Arundt, Episcopalian, Germantown, Pa.