Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1910 — SHORT METER SERMONS [ARTICLE]

SHORT METER SERMONS

New truth comes through obedience to old. Doing nothing Is learning to do wrong. No man is brave until he has faced ridicule. In some churches cold facts would make a hot sermon. A store of unpractised piety in the heart soon paralyzes it No man can be faithful to divine ideals who dodges daily duties. Some hope to cure the tiger of biting by filling his teeth with gold. The endeavor always counts more for one’s happiness than the success. A man soon gets tired of his religion when he does not work at It It’s a good deal easier to seem fit to die than to be fit to live with. The less a man thinks about his sincerity the more he is likely to have. It’s no use looking in lonely places for men who are really walking with God. The most harmless amusement is poisonous when it is the only food your heart gets. The man who lives by the golden rule never has to talk to his friends about his piety. To be guided by the senses alone is as though one should let the compkss Bteer the ship. One of the worst things about exposing the wolvos is that the sheep will turn and try to rend you.—Chicago Tribune.