Article July 5, 1900 Issue

Religious Items

with contributions from John Quincy Adams

Bishop Paret's address before the Episcopalian Convention regarding the religious instruction of children is given an important place in the Church Standard. Concerning the duty of parents toward their children, the bishop says: "Common notions of these later days have confined it almost entirely to the mothers. God put it first of all upon the fathers. It was to fathers He was chiefly speaking when He commanded concerning the principles and precepts of His earlier religion, 'thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children." It was to father's He said, through St. Paul, 'bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.' It was to Abraham and not Sarah of whom He said in praise, 'I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord.' "

I cherish the virtue of humility in proportion to the scarcity of it in the world. When associated with active and energetic powers it is truly admirable. But there is great danger in that humanity which implies the sacrifice of one's own judgment to the opinions and wishes of others. In all the relations of life, public and private. I have found this difficulty constantly recurring, and, when compelled to decide, have erred, sometimes in following the dictates of my own mind, and sometimes in yielding to the persuasions of others. The only true reliance is from above.—John Quincy Adams.

The Rev. T. A. King, in a sermon published in the New Church Messenger, says: "No matter what the outward life may be—clean, polished, and cultured, or disfigured and unclean—internally the individual is an idolator until he fully and sincerely turns away from loving himself. If one is sincere in this supreme moment of his life, fire will fall from heaven, a real, genuine love will descend from the Lord into his heart, as truly as fire fell from Elijah's altar. He will then see that self has no such power; that no fire of an all-consuming divine love can come into life so long as it is self-centred and self-seeking."

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