Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — Short Sermons. [ARTICLE]

Short Sermons.

< Clergymen.—The vocation of the minister is from God, blit the avocation is simply a method of making a livelihood. The peril of this eountry to-day is that faith in the Church is shrinking, and this is, in the first place, the fault of the ministers. There Is a kind of Jesuitism in the Protestant churches as shrewd and false as any that was ever charged upon the followers of Ignatius Loyola. If a minister dares to speak out the c cliureh machine fires hint. —John G. Wooley, Prohibitionist, Boston, Mass. Tlie Divinity of Ctirtst—Where shall we find the proof of the divinity of Christ? He performed miracles, raising the dead, restoring sight to .the blind, giving intellect to the dumb, aml making tlie lame walk, all of which could only he performed by one who could suspend the laws of nature. The mission of the Church and the mission of Christ nre inseparable, and it must he holy by reason of its founder and of Roman Catholic, Denver, Colo. Music—Music probably makes a more universal appeal to the sense of the beautiful In men than any other of the arts. The uncultivated man who quite misses the beauty of a fine picture generally feels the charm of good music. It may he due to this fact that music .takes precedence of every other art, in tlie Bible. Beauty and truth run side by side tlirotJgh aH* its pages, and the character which it holds up to men is cue in which they are lusSparahly blended together.—Rhv. C. T. Brown, -Ge»gi%ga4ionalish—Sa4t™»Jjike City, Utah.

Spreading the Gospel.—Our 'age, marked by an unpj-ecendentcil expansion of knowledge, is qne of doubt. Side by side with great levity we find widespread melancholy. Yet there is also an observable -reaching out for the Christ of the Gospels and for those regenerating social and individual forcc,s tlie Gospel has in the centuries past revealed. Therefore, upon those who know Christ and to wjiom the Gospel is a living experience, there settles a tremendous responsibility. "What lias been so real to such must now in turn be made real to others.—Rev. M. McGregor Dana, Congregationalism Brooklyn, N. Y. Banks for Losings.—The temperance young man puts bis money in “tlie savings banks. The drinking young man deposits his in the saloon. Dr, Cuvier .calls tlie saloons "bank* fur lositigs.”Tlie only interest that is paid on tlie deposits Is in redness of the eyes and foulness of breath, and remorse of conscience find‘loss of health and happiness and character. Every one who makes iimlcuosit gains a loss. One man goes into this b<iik with a full ixieket and com ek on twit h it empty. A not her goes in - wWit-- a good character and cAmes out with tlie word drunk written on Ills bloated'countenance.-rßev. Frank Hungate, Baptist, Colmnbus, O.