Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — “By Their Fruits." [ARTICLE]

“By Their Fruits."

" it is one of the characteristic features of the “new religions” which rise periodically into prominence that their initators manage to turn them into a means of handsome pecuniary profit. Superstition and credulity have always from of old been associated; and the new superstitions in this matter rival the old. On the side of the leaders, fanaticism degenerating into charlatanry; op the side of the followers delirious confidence, passing into blind partizanship, on the way often to a rude awaketiipg and final disgust with all religion, true as well as false.

How the story of the Incarnation shines in s its grand simplicity and noble self-sacrifice against the background of these modern cults!. Success is the trials of all religions; and while the Christian faith has suffered much from • its false friends, it triumphs by its power, ever-renewed from above, to re-awaken in its true exponents the spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice.—London Christian.

' .r H • . . If you want to/ be loved by others keep sober, talk kindly and look as sweet as you know how. Let us love one another.

£ - „• - Wherever souls are being tried arid ripened, in whatever. 'commonplace and homely ways, there God is hewing out. the pillars for His temple. —Phillips Brooks.