Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — short Sermons. [ARTICLE]

short Sermons.

i, Vices of the age—The prevalent vices Of our times are hastening to be rich, extravagant living, riskful and ruinous speculations, undue crowding into professional life, pressing from the country into the cities, striving after public office, general impatience and restlessness, willingness to put on false show in uusolid buildings, in paste jewelry, in veneering generally.—Kev. H. W. Ballenbine, Oongregationalist, I’hitadelphia. Fighters wnntod—We need more fighters. I.utlier was a fighter, and hence the reformation; Washington was a fighter, and'hence our own beloved country; Grant was a fighter, and we have a united people free from slavery. Give us more fighters for the truth, temperance, industry, righteousness. Gve us more iron in the blood, more sand in tjie character, to the end that more may lay hold on the eternal life.— Kev. A. V. Newton, CongregatiouuHst, Brooklyn The Church In politics—The time Is coming when the church will demand that all the chief plai'es In the oity government shall be filled with men whose personal elm racier does command high respect, lt la high time to cease tolerating the presence of any man as a city, official who is himself hand and glove with that which is moat degrading. The democratic Christian Church has a right to make demands and to enforce thenr.—Rev. E. M. Fairchild, Unitarian, Troy, N. Y. 'J'he point of view—This world is as you see It—that is, you may see wihat you will. Wear green, glasses, and It la a greeh world to you. Wear blue glasses, and the world about you gets the tint Look with a vhilon distorted by discontent, and you will find enough to harass your life out of you. liook through an Impure eye, and you will vote virtue a myth. Look through a pure, loving eye, and you will And enough to admire and much to Inspire. —Rev. ▲. Z. Conrad, Go tig regal ionaliet, >', . ,