Article September 13, 1900 Issue

Religious Items

with contributions from W. W. Fenn

Theodore L. Cuyler says in the Baptist Standard: "Prevailing prayer must always be accompanied with prevailing effort on our part. God never puts a premium on cowardice, or laziness, or palpable neglect of duty. There is no haphazard in prayer. All God's promises have their conditions; we must comply with those conditions, or we cannot expect the blessings coupled with the promises, No farmer is such and idiot as to look for a crop unless he has ploughed his field and sowed his seed. Be sure, my Christian friend, that you are honestly and perservingly doing your part, if you expect God to do His part."

The Congregationalist has the following: "A United States military officer last week, commenting on the contrast between the grimfacts and the sensational reports of luxurious living by the officers in Tientsin and of the jealousies between the Powers, said with truth 'the Peckin relief expedition is the first military expedition in the history of the world in behalf of whose success the efforts as well as the sympathies and prayers of the whole civilized world have ever been enlisted. I wish that some of the writers who are trying to discredit and embarrass it could comprehend and appreciate that fact.' "

The Congregationalist says: "A bubble is bigger than a drop, but it does no more to fill the spring, for bubbles are but drops distended. Bubbles of pride, bubbles of hypocrisy and self-assertion, bubbles of outward seeming unhelped by inward worth, shine on the surface of the river of time, until God's finger touches them and they are gone. It may be well for some of us to pray that we may not be bubbles on the stream, deluding others by pretense of worth; but we need to pray also that we may not be bubble worshipers, caught by social pretense or intellectual arrogance."

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