Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — Short Sermons. [ARTICLE]

Short Sermons.

Intelligence.—(Men are not born equal intellectually. There are those who cannot, strive as they may, reach high .Intellectual attainments. They are neither architects, poets nor painters; they are neither philosophers, historians nor orators.—Rev. Jaimes Roberts, Preftbyterlan, Philadelphia, Pa. Drink.—What shall we do when we feel downhearted? Drink, says some one. Drinking will make us laugh, perhaps, for awhile, but not the next morning. The laughter It causes is like the sparkle or the foam of the liquor Itself —ft sqon grows stale.—Rev. Charles Wood, Presbyterian, Philadelphia, Pa. Motherhood.—The greatest honor which God can bestow upon woman te that of motherhood. Some one has Mid, “God could not attend to everything, so he made mothers.” It would have been better said, “God wanted helpers, so he made mothers.”—Bev. J. K. Montgomery, Presbyterian, Cta. cinnatl, Ohio.