Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — Short Sermons. [ARTICLE]

Short Sermons.

Bible Societies.—Bible societies are the hands of the Christian churches, giving the bread of life to famishing multitudes. Seventy of these societies are In existence that have given the Bible in seventy-five years to 580,000,000 of the population of the world.— Rev. Dr. Lee, Presbyterian, Cincinnati, Ohio. Equality.—l do not believe that there are any kinds of equality except that of opportunities. But there is the equality of giving each man a free and open chance to gain as much as he can. Give them a free race. Outrun if you can. That’s fair. To trip him up is unfair.—Rev. M. J. Savage, Unitarian, New. York City. Criminals.—l am frequently asked by prison officials what Is the use of my trying to convert these sinners. They tell me these men are hardened beyond all remedy, but I don’t believe It. These brethren of ours who have fallen love to hear the sounds of the Gospel trumpet.—Rev. Thomas Edgar, Prison Evangelist, New York City. The Rebound.—Every man gets out of this world the rebound of what he puts into it. We command God by obeying Him. We get from Him and His world whatsoever we will. Sovereignly over the world was given to man at the beginning. Lost by sin, it was restored by redemption.—Rev. Dr. Roughton, Methodist, Cincinnati, O. The Wheel. —There are tens of thousands of men and women who five years ago were In the habit of attending church on Sunday who now spend the day riding in the country. As a result of It all the church is confronted with the gravest situation she has faced since the reformation. —Rev. S. D. McConnell, Episcopalian, Brooklyn, N. Y. Punishment. —We need a sterner administration of law. Robberies accompanied with violence have been so numerous that we may need the methods of Liverpool. For deeds of personal violence there the lash was unsparingly used, accompanied with long terms of Imprisonment for the habitual criminal.—Bishop Fallows, Episcopalian, Chicago, 111. Sunday Evils.—lt Is a matter of deep public concern, as well as that of the church, how the masses are to be employed wbo are let loose upon the Sabbath. If they be allowed to be tempted to idleness, vice and dissipation, no day in tbe calendars- of tbe week will equal It in “impairing health, promoting vice r Increasing pauperism, unsettling society,” and opening the flood-gates for sin and degradation in general.—Rev. Henry Tesnow, Reformed Episcopalian, Denver, Colo.