Show said in the pulpit compiler compiled in the main by the san sail francisco call from delivered everywhere DESTINY every man ermines determines dt his big own dep destiny tiny every wan is as he wants to be rev W H sunday methodist waterloo iowa essentials religion teaches industry ho honesty n and truthful iness and the young man who hopes to succeed in fife must es these three essentials senti als rev W I 1 evans episcopalian co columbia S C individuality who wants the litter latter day saints tn lose lope their great individuality and be led hv a few leade leaders ra of the tha church no one they must mast not be led blindly for their great strength is ia in their individuality apostle A II 11 cannon in salt lake tabernacle RIGHT AND ACT morality MI ity is right relation with me men n spirituality is tight right re relation prelatic latic n T with t h god gd A man may be all right with hia big fellows and all wrong with god when a man gets right with god he be is right with man evera time rev A C dixon dison independent raleigh N C THE ROAD TO HEAVEN do not think you will leap into heaven by a single bound at death not so easy every day you are by every victory over flesh ascending that ladder which bich leads from earth to heaven heaven is not dot gained by a single bound rev 0 B mitchell methodist kansas city mo APPLIED christianity ta the one great need of our times is applied to christianity it is one on that goes ahead of all others and upon it depends the solution of three preat great problems of the world limitation and distribution ion of wealth suffrage and education rev G P sewell presbyterian Sy syracuse N Y WORK sin is jug juat as much a sin in the south sea islander as it is in the coney islander the ignorance and the superstition of the former not making it le leas obnoxious in the sight of god and though he be pities tle the pagan the tha pagans immorality immo aliby is ia just as offensive and just as punishable rev H H styles presbyterian altoona pa THE GOSPEL preaching in the abstract aastra c t is is a poor business A man who should try farming in the abstract would raise no crops and he who can stand before a congregation of immortal souls and mouth platitudes and abstractions will enlist fe few w soldiers for the king will secure few saints for herven berven the gospel of christ is a plain message to plain people rev IV 1 H 1 gr tenpie temple congregationalist seattle e wash POVERTY AND WEALTH earthly riches have their temptation tit tion but earthly poverty has also there is ia dan danger gerof of the rich man fixing his affections on his possessions but there is danger of the poor mans poverty becoming to him a snare there is ia an entrance afforded to heaven through carist jesus to the rich as we well ll 11 as the poor and to the poor as well as the rich rev J D sands presbyterian pittsburg pa f TRUE RELIGION we talk of the jewish religion and the abr christian istian religion and the religion but religion in in its essential spirit and its it essence is love of god and love of man dian ard and that is the best religion thic u develops the best pe people ople th ahr most juht and kindly people 1 caring carl rig for those interests that tha make human happiness rev E T L rexford Universal ht columbus ohio progression q the sneers about tile the monkey ancestry of evolution need not trouble us it ft is more encouraging encourage n 9 to be a apo ape who has climbed to bilat we are then a fallen angel going the other way IV we are nov not a fallen race but a rising one not dot a penal colony of c con n dem n ed criminals criminal but a family of gods children taking our first lesson iii if life rev ff L squires now york TUB THE HOUSE OP OF GOD in tile the house home of god god not man speaks lie he gives a divine message massage through his big servant the pa pastor or 0 of hii bi church i bich is ia inspired b by y he holy spirit and is ia ay merely giving givina utterance in in the medium of lal language guage by the man of god the church is a holy place for where god is specially ap pd to opeo 1 to his big people nothing ul f he i introduced tr ed of a nature to d defile rev G hoyne Luth lutheran tran eau claire wis ACRID WORK it w is not the hillid of work performed that makes it sacred but its ite quality and spirit every christian cerii tian man mac has flag a divine call to do the best work or of which he is cap able A trin trinon may he be preached as a were mere aliece ol of salaried while a aby sic ians prescription for or the stiffer suffering ing poor may be as holy in the sight 0 ot t the heavenly father as the min ministry astry of an angel rev 0 partridge baptist cincinnati ohio ME LAW this is ia an age of machinery of science of law law we wa are told governs everything we live by law fall sick by law are doctored by law and are pious b by law BE lut but law in reality cannot do anything iny thing law is as powerful as an old golden image for what is ia law it is the principle by which a thing ac acts As it is a method of procedure dut but observe somebody must musli proceed there must be a living gent behind the law for laws lawa carifi cannot cit make or execute themselves rev W C blakeman Blake roan i methodist brooklyn N Y to suppress the evil we must remove the cause there is only oue one way to destroy vicious le legislation and that is to let the people legislate for themselves by means of the referendum whenever abey think themselves aggrieved di 1 vet yo isla tien give the h dirst slow to bribery for there is is no use to bribe the law lawmakers makers if the people can at any time upset vicious legislation by an appeal to the ballot box rev J L scudder congregationalist jersey city N J THE SINS BINS OP OF PARENTS 1 we are not guilty of what adam did we suffer for our parents sins but we are guil 0 guilty ty only for our own whatever wrongs our fathers did are our misfortune not our crime and instead of our being condemned at the bar of god fo for r the sins of those from whom we sprung those sin sins swill will plead for us mute witnesses of our misfortune in being born of parents neither wide liae nor strong and the more sin sinful our ancestry the more leniently should heaven judge of our transgressions gres for he knows that the weakness not the iniquity of the father is visited upon his children rev C F henry Uni Universal versa list iet cleveland ohio LAST TIMES my friends these are the last times time w we live in the dispensation of tile the fullness of times when paul sorrowful sorrowfully ay wea went t from branch to branch of the church exhorting the presidents of branches brani hes to be diligent laboring in season and out of t season e a s on day and night 0 he was over overshadowed s h avowed by the gre great at sor low that all his work must end in confusion that a black pall pal of darkness would settle over the world and men would themselves arise to draw away disciples disciple after them and corrupt the truth which he delivered unto the church yet he labored on in patience and sometimes I 1 have woud wondered ered how it was that he did not sink bink down under the appalling certainty that the church of christ would be destroyed and in the temples of god there would sit a power that would exalt itself itsel f all that is called god and lord it over gods heritage elder B H 11 roberts mormon salt lake tabernacle |