SENTENCE SERMONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 101, 14 September 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

SENTENCE SERMONS.

The only way to make others good is to make good ourselves. The pessimists are the people who analyse the game, but never get into it. None get on the heights with the divine who are not on the level with men. A man who has many strings on his hands is sure to get some around his feet. Our poverty is more likely to be due to the good we miss than to the goods we lose. The best way to meet some enemies is to slay them first and argue with them afterwards. When the church goes into the circus business the side shows soon swallow up the main tent, Nothing will keep men from becoming saints better than the sight of some who are dead sure they are. No man ever deeply admired a great good without deeply detesting that which stood in its way. Making earth brighter makes heaven surer. Praying is a wasteful act when it stops at wishing. You cannot live for people without living with them. Trouble never weakens you save when you flee from it. No man has a great mission who slights little ministries. Some spend minutes in charity and months in advertising it. Too many think that square living must mean sour-looking. Many reformers get switched off on to reforming one another. Too many mistake the squabbles of creed for the fight of faith. Repentance soon after green apples is no promise of a new life.