Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — Short Sermons. [ARTICLE]

Short Sermons.

Men of the Age.—We are not perfect yet. Something remains to be done still. This age, of course, is different from all others. This is an age of inventions and discoveries. The thoughts of men would therefore, naturally lie along these lines. The spirit of improvement is in the air, and everything must be improved. The men of this age are more intelligent than the men of any other.—Rev. Lyman Ward, Universallst. New York City. Human Devils.—ln every community there are men whose spirit and dominant motives are as devilish as those of any ideal devil conceived of by Milton or the mediaeval theologian—men apparently under the spell of some superior mind or minds, as was Trilby under the spell of Svengali. Bad inch seek and follow other bad men. They yield allegiance to superior badness. They are the tools of knaves shrewder than themselves.—Rev. C. A. Dickinson, Congregationalist, Boston, Mass. Money.—Money stands for home, for comforts, for happiness. Salvation Is dependent upon money because the world must be brought to Jesus-Christ. In this country there are spent annually for chewing gum $20,000,000, and for peanuts $10,000,000, and many Christian people spend their money for these things. Contrast with these amounts the money devoted to foreign missions last year by all denominations, $5,500,000.—Rev. C. A. Jenkins, Baptist, Net, Brunswick. N. J,