Short Sermons – A Sentence or So

1899

"Our Father" tells of the brotherhood of man. Truth has nothing to fear from error, nature cannot disagree with its God. — Rev. W. H. Tubb, Congregationalist, San Francisco, Cal.

Capital is that part of wealth put into operation to increase the ability of a nation or community. Capital is the laborer's friend. — Rev. R. S. J. Burke, R. C., Holyoke, Mass.

When God sends a prayer into the heart he has already prepared the answer. We are taught the importance of faith, prayer and patience. — Rev. Robert Graham, Presbyterian, Philadelphia, Pa.

What society wants to-day is not charity, but justice — justice between man and man. Give man justice and there will be practically nobody to take care of. — Rev. George C. Lorimer, Baptist, Boston, Mass.

Oh, the injustice of that sentence of Dreyfus! I pity the man or the nation that allows prejudice to enter the heart against God's chosen people. — Dwight L. Moody, Evangelist, Northfield, Mass.

The verdict was not against the man but against a race. It was a triumph of race prejudice. The judges made up their minds beforehand that the prisoner was guilty. Rabbi Falk Vidavar, Hebrew, New York.

The Dreyfus trial is persecution instead of prosecution. A noted Frenchman has said: "Better that an innocent man go to prison and death than that the nation suffer." — Rev. Cortland Myers, Baptist, Brooklyn, N. Y.

I never held nor taught that physical death was the end of a wicked soul. Death is simply changing the conditions under which man's life is lived. It is not a flood of regeneration. — Rev. Dr. E. H. Ward, Episcopalian, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Prayer with study, prayer with investigation is the rule of the growth of the missionary spirit. Prayer to be of value must be intelligent, must be offered for an intelligent object known to be worthy. — Rev. J. L. Barton, Congregationalist, Bangor, Me.

A travesty on justice and an outrage on humanity was perpetrated at Rennes. But God is just; vengeance is His. He will repay, and some day between the millstones of his wrath He will grind France to pieces. — Rev. Madison C. Peters, Independent, New York.

—Daily Iowa State Press, Iowa City, IA, Nov. 1, 1899, p. 2.