Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1910 — SHORT METER SERMONS. [ARTICLE]

SHORT METER SERMONS.

Join in the child’s games. Solve his doubts. Answer his questions. Become a child again.—Rev. M. C. Peters, Baptist, New York City. He is rich indeed who, like Enoch of old, through his growing and his de. dining years, walks with God. —Rev. J. E. Price, Methodist, New York City. The church has tod largely centered 'ts attention on doctrines, and too littL’ on personal and social righteousness.—Rev. W. H. Foulkes, Presbyterian, Portland, Ore, Never were there so many opportunities given to women as now, and never were there so many avenues of opportunity open to them. —Rev. W. W. Bustard, Baptist, Boston, Mass. That man is greatest who can draw most readily on all the stored wisdom of the past, who can utilize whatevw he has ever learned at a moment’s tice. —Rev. A. P. Brown, Baptist, Fresno, Cal. Imagination will construct a God out of its own impressions. He will be bigger than a man, wiser than a man, but all in the terms cf a man. — Rev. F. S. Spalding, Episcopalian, Salt Lake City. The miser is the most miserable ot men. What.he prizes becomes worthless. It neither ministers to his own comfort nor to the welfare of others. —Rev. Statom, Presbyterian, Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. Theology is born of the brain of man. It deals with dogma, creed and ceremonials, and is powerless to influence the life of man to bring it into harmony with the Divine. —Rev. W. P. Lyon, True Life Church, San Jose, Cal. When a man is tempted downward, he ought to stop and think. If some selfish consideration entices him toward the abyss, he should wait for the saber second thought.—Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, Congregationalist, Brooklyn. Facts without principles are lumber without nails, stones without mortar, materials without a plan, body without life. Facts become science when arrayed in the order of principles.— Rev. F. J. Van Horn, Congregationalist, Seattle. The only guarantee of good conduct we require of she men who are called to positions of public trust is an oath to perform their duties faithfully. An oath is an appeal to God as witness and as judge.—Rev. J. F. Carson, Presbyterian, Brooklyn. The truth is food for the human soul, by which it grows and becomes strong and noble. Truth is instrumental. It is through a knowledge of the truth that we find freedom and peace and strength—Rev. J. W. Rowlett, Unitarian, Atlanta. Gambling has been defined too exclusively in terms of the harm it does the other man. It has been made to consist wholly in injustice to your neighbor, the desire to worst him, the willingness to leave him in a worse condition than you found him. —Rev. Charles D. Williams, Episcopalian, Detroit.