Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — Short Sermons. [ARTICLE]

Short Sermons.

Church Unity.—Unity does not mean conformity to the same thought. This would mean the stagnation of the religious world. No body of men can ever formulate a cveefl that the world will accept. There will be “many men of many minds” as long as there is thought. Unity should not mean the obliteration or suppression of individual thought, but the harmony of the thinkers.—Rev. U. S. Milburn, Universalist, Cincinnati, Ohio. Character.—We describe men by the offices they hold, the reputation they have, the money they can command, but these are but the merest accidents. The man is not what he has or what men say of him, but what he Is. The chief fact about a man is the man himself. There is somewhat inside the circle of circumstances, underneath his words, behind his deeds, and that somewhat is character.—Rev. C. W. Gullette, Methodist, Cincinnati, Ohio.