Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1899 — SERMONS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SERMONS OF THE WEEK

The -Soul.—The soul is destroyed released to the realm of universal forces by the event of death.—Rev. O. W. Wendte, Unitarian, Los Angeles, , Christ's Divinity.—Faith jn Christ’s divinity may be difficult, bat less difficult than the acceptance of any other possible explanation of bis Dr. G. H. Combs, Kansas City, Mo. Science.—Science knows nothing of J a spiritual world, though it leads the | mind up to problems which require It J to postulate a spiritual world.—Rev. L P. Mercer, Swedenborgian, Chicago, HL | The Divine, Methods. The divine methods are wise in matters of religion as all else. God requires that man shall recognize his duty in spiritual things. —Rev. Dr. Geo. H. Adams, MetbodisL g Brooklyn, N. Y. A Larger Faith.—The religion of a larger faith calls Christian men to a 4 larger and more adequate faith in God as the invincible power of righteousness—Rev. I. P. Coddington, Unlvertalist, Rochester, N. Y. A Primary Conviction.—The idea of | immortality is so ingrained into my whole nature—it is so universal among men—that it seems like a primary conviction.—Rev. M. D. Shutter,, Untver-1 sallst, Minneapolis, Minn. Science.—Science reveals man as God’s likeness, that cannot help being . immortal. Though the' grass seemeth to wither, and the flower to fade away, they reappear.—Rev. Mary B. C. Eddy, Christian Scientist, Concord, N. EL Too Suspicious.—There Is no reaeoKi why a Protestant should not be permitted in a Catholic pnlpk and preach the truth which he sincerely believes. We - are still too suspicions of one another*! —Rev. Cbas. H. Eaton, Universalist, New York City. Coolness and Good Judgment—NeV4H|| was there a time when coolness and. good judgment and close attention to * the fundamental principles of onr government were more demanded than at I present.*—Rev. Dr. Conaty, R. C., Washington, D. C. The Minister’s Duty.—The minister \ must investigate the divine troth. He ; must study the relation of these truths to the life of those whom he teaches, | and he must declare the truth In its! entirety.— Rev. J. L. Barton, Congregb* J tionalist, Bangor, Me. Prove All Things.—ln the name o#| the great and electric age, let us wake up and try to be ourselves. Let w| prove all things, counting nothing toai sacred for onr testing, and hold fast only the good.—Rev. B. Fay Evangelist, Boston, Mass. Absolute Equality.—Absolute ty among men is neither possible norm desirable, but Christians should so ustel their money as to bring about a social 1 state in which universal fellow feeling|| is a possibility.—Rev. Dr. M. C. Pete*i|jii Reformed Church, New York. God as Father.—As Father, the dl*|| cipline to which God subjects us, evea|| in its bitterest severity, must be saln-i tary and saving. It is our good tell seeks. There must be sweetness in *tel| cup of gall.—Rev. Dr. Bebrends, Co»l gregationalist, Brooklyn, N. Y. Truth. Truth is the matching of! thought with reality, and when we findl that our world is a world of thought! relations we must not conclude tSlfl some one thought out these things bM fore we found them to exist—Rev. 11l L. Patton, Presbyterian, PrineetonJS&lg Success of Christ’s Work.—OpposM tion, obstacles, outward hindrances; Rif is not these which will prevent the final > Siccess of Christ’s work in the w<pi|9 ailure or success will be from withiftl the church and not from without—BiS A. E. Woods, Baptist San Francisco, , Onr National Life.—lt is in tion with our national life, that God is now summoning ns onward! as never before. Under the pressure ofl his divine providence we now find ouiil selves as a nation face to face with m*! precedented issues. Rev. W. J. gS|9 Chester, Presbyterian. Chicago, 111. | j The Mysteries.—There are those wfc|jj violently oppose the mysteries whirijl have grown up with religion. They a|(g unwilling to await the process of evojfjg tion to gradually cast it off. In baste they would destroy religion RsefcGj or cast it off with the mysteries.— G. W. Stone, Unitarian, Kansas CHafil Immortality.—lmmortality to a fact! of nature. Coexistent with the oniy|M sal belief and persuasion of a suprtoaM being, of an Infinite, all powerful amp all wise governing power, baa been ,t|» ever-enduring idea of a life beyond tb*l limit of physical death.—ArchbisteiM Williams, Roman Immortality. The epistles Apocalypse are alive with ance of immortality, and all anewol to a true and vital intuition in the tegn man soul, which no people or peragfl can destroy, and which no Mil pW dent of life and history can Rev. R. S. Storrs. Congregationali* Brooklyn, N. Y. at rsß-vpipa*!*