Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1910 — SHORT METEL SERMONS. [ARTICLE]

SHORT METEL SERMONS.

You must be fyappy in this world if you want to be happy in the next. — Rev.* E. W. Smith, Presbyterian, Louisville. The ultimate triumph must, and should be, the ultimate end of man.— Rev. P. F. O’Hare, Roman Catholic, Brooklyn. The knowledge of the Bible in this country is very shallow and superficial. —Rev. Dr. Broughton, Congregationalism Atlanta. “Pull” may secure place among men, but character and ability only bring honor.—Rev. W. H. Burgwin, Methodist, Brooklyn. Of all friendships the sense of the .companionship of the Man of Nazafeth is the most invigorating. —Rev. W. C. Stinson, Reformed, New York City. Wisdom increases, but ignorance does not die. Many men are strong, but some arel weak. —Rev. W. M. Waters, Congregationalism Brooklyn, N. Y. If we sin it is because we love sin and want to sin, or because we have not acpepted God’s loop of escape from temptation.—Rev. C. L. Laws, Baptist, Brooklyn. We are in eternity to live in the mansion or hut we are building here. The building is built from within.— Rev. Charles W. Blodgett, Methodist, Pittsburg. The Christian religion is a divinely revealed rule of life. The church is not a university; it is a technical school. —Rev. Horace R. Pell, Episcopalian, New York City. Business men are ready to bribe to get things done. Offices themselves are bribes. Out of these conditions the system of graft has grown.—Rev. O. B. Hawes, Unitarian, Germantown. A true civilization never moves on a dead level. There is much in modern life that tends toward skepticism and this leads to infidelity.—Rev. John. McDowell, Presbyterian, Newark, N. J. A house divided against itself cannot stand, and the world cannot continue half Christian and half heathen. It must become in the end one thing or the other.—Rev. J. K. Smith, Presbyterian, Pittsburg. Our love for God and man,,our reverence for ideal truths and rlghteotxsness, our ability to provide for ourselves and do our jjprt in the work of the world, all demand that we take proper care of the body, making this a part of our religion, just as much as the care of the soul.—Rev. Dr. Bowser, Presbyterian, Atlanta.