Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — Short Sermons. [ARTICLE]

Short Sermons.

Worship.—Man is a religious being, and must have some god to worship. No race of men has yet been found altogether destitute of some religious belief, and the world has no building large enough to hold the gods before which men have fallen down and worshiped. Indeed, it may be said with truth that every individual has a god of his own. —Rev. Dr. Harcourt, Methodist, Philadelphia, Pa. Intellectual Weeds.—The sweet clover and burdock which carpet our stone quarries and claybanks illustrate some still ornamental uses for otherwise mischievous plants. So old errors in religion and old abuses in politics are simply the left-overs of a day when they performed some useful office. They are the Intellectual weeds which better ideas are trying to supersede.— Rev. George A. Thayer, Unitarian, Cincinnati, Ohio. Love.— Has it ever occurred to you what a masterful thing love is; what obstacles it surmounts, and what difficulties it overcomes? Love does not hesitate for impulse nor wait for opportunity, but creates both, it comes into the cottage of the poor, humble and downtrodden, with the same sweet Dreath that It diffuses In the palaces of the rich and proud.—Rev. A. 8. Yan tea, Episcopalian, Brooklyn, N. X.