Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1910 — TRUMPET CALLS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRUMPET CALLS.

Horn Sonnda n Warning Not* to tke Unredeemed.

Yout faith lacks force if it makes no fqes. There are no wings on stereotyped prayers. They who wound in sport would soon kill in earnest. Zeal for statia-

tics is often mistaken for zeal for Nothing dulls the edge of principle like sharp practice. You have the Bible by the wrong end when it seems useful to prove others wrong. They who in the darkness serve as though they saw Him always find Him near at - last.- - ;-j=======i=====^ It would help the sale of some shoes if they were warranted to speak in churdh aisles. Some think that faith is trusting God to cloud the moon when they go after chickens. It is well to suspect that love. Tor sinners which is based on curiosity about the slums. It is strange that the man who sends out many business bills gets mad at one little dun from his church. The only thing that sincerity does for the man on the wrong road is to keep him longer satisfied with it. Self-respect is a good thing, but to be guided by it alone is like a man’s trying to walk in the dark by the light'from his own eyes.