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

Short Sermons.

The Sanctity of Law.—We need a revolution in the kingdom of God and in human society regarding the sanctity of law. We have had too little preaching and too little practice of Sinai in these last days. Jesus Christ never repealed the ten commandments. The Sermon on the Mount was one great red line of emphasis underneath the tables of stone.—Rev. Cortlandt Myers, Baptist, Brooklyn, N. Y. Money for Missions.—Seventy business men of New York subscribed sl,400,000 to build the Metropolitan Opera ■ House. When and where have seventy men subscribed such an amount to lift the world out of the guilt of sin to the light of the Gospel? There seems to be no trouble to raise $12,000 for a prize fight, but what a time is made in raising such an amount for missions.—Rev. C. A. Jenkins, Baptist, '’ew Rruna wick, N. J.