Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1910 — SENTENCE SERMONS [ARTICLE]

SENTENCE SERMONS

A pious fraud is sin’* host friend. Pain is often hut the dregs of pleas* ore. The doors to heaven are in retired places of helpfulness. My love of God is wrong unless it makes him more lovely to others. 1 When a man’s religion is on his sleeve it is usually part of his cloak. Nothing will help you more than helping a man when you do not want to, Saintliness and sanity are both a happy balance between self and society. % ~ Too many of our ideas on duties are sadly mixed with notions on rev enue. - It is easy to love truth ardently when its edge is toward your adversary. If you 'cannot sometimes forget to count yourself you will never b.e worth counting. Too many are praying for a harvest of love who have planted no seeds of kindness. This world would be a good deal more healthy if we might quarantine the grumblers. The preacher who would guide to the ideal life must live in the heart of our real life. It is good evidence you have only half a truth when you think you have a monopoly of all.The greatest difficulty in winning the esteem of others lies in our foolish estimates of ourselves. The most uncomfortable people in this world are those who are anxious only for comfort.—Chicago Tribune.