The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
ALI Denominations.

Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.
Christ's peace is the living peace of
| love.-Rev. t. J. Villers, Baptist, In
dianapolis. Ind.
NATURES NOBLEMEN
Natures noblemen are they who earn
an honest livelihood by the busy use of
brain or brawn.-Rev. DR.. Hunter Pres
byterian, Denver
DEFECTIVE TEACHING.
To try to teach and at the same time
ignore religion must necessarily be de-
fective eaehing.-Bishop John J. Glen
non, Roman Catholic, Kansas City, Mo.
HOW TO WIN MEN.
If the enthusiasm of the church on
fire with the Holy Ghost shall lead men
who mock and oppose to simply listen
to the Christ we preach, they will be-
come interested, charmed, fascinated
and won.-Rev. DR.. A. c. Dixon, Bap-
fist. Boston.
HELPING THE WORLD.
Think your own thoughts and live
your own life. Be thoroughly honest
in both matters and you will help the
man and the ideal society.-Rev. Dr.
George H Hepworth, Congregationalist,
New York.
GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL.
Few men acknowledge that they owe
all they have to their God. If they are
living in the enjoyment of riches they
consider their good fortune not a
gift from God, but as the results of
their own labor or merely a gift of
chance--Rev- Father Duclos, Catholic,
Atlanta.
USELESS
man may live a listless and I'M
eventaul life without hearing the d.
vine voice. but no man can be a bene-
fit to his race or a hero in a crisis. nor
can he solve the perplexing problems of
life without a revelation of God.-Rev.
Donald c. Macleod, Presbyterian,
Washington.
THE SOCIAL PROBLEM.
Serious as the social problem is, there
seems almost a ludicrouS element to it.
Against what are we struggling? Simply
against ourselves. There is no artificial
restraint upon US. Absolute, unhinder-
ed, almost godlike power is in the hands
of the people. We have in our own
hands the cause and the cure, if cure
there be-ReV. Albert c. Grier, Uni
versalist, Racine. Wis.
CHRIST ALWAYS THE SAME.
Recently we have seen much discus
sion in the newspapers of the different
phases of Christianity, of the changes
of creeds, of alleged dissensiOns over
these things. We have descriptions of
medieval Christ and of a modern
Christ. Jesus Christ is the same yes
Henry c. Minton, Presbyterian General
Moderator. San Francisco.
NOT BY BREAD ALONE.
Toiling, scheming, perspiring, worry
ing millions, why break down your
bodies and eat UP your lives in ceaseless
effort to get bread or what will buy
bread? Are your bodily wants your only
wants? Have you not wants beyond
the power of bread to satisfy? Get
bread, but do not attempt to live by
bread alone.-Rev. Hugh A. Orchard,
Christian Church, Roodhouse, Ill.
LIBERALISM.
To be a liberal is to love larger views,
to reach point OF outlook from which
the special and the selfish, the greatest
bane of mankind, is lost sight of in
the universal and unselfish. The con-
sentative element of our humanity pre-
serves the good already won, but there
are new fields to be explored and new
good to be found. The liberal has ever
been an explorer Rev Wilson NJ.
BackuS, Unitarian, Chica go.
FINAL RESORTS.
In the last resort it is not the money
that counts, but the men; not the
mories, but the heart and disposition
of the people And that ultimately de-
ponds upon moral and religious quail
ties. In a last resort the country falls
back upon the soundness of heart and
cleanness of blood of its sons and
daughters. upon fortitude and faith
and sacrifice and love.-Rev. Hugh
Black, Free Church. Edinburgh.
IDEAL HUMANITY.
AS religion becomes less formal and
more practical, as men grow in soul
stature prejudices and other forms of
ignorance are left behind. The begin
ming of ideal relations among men is
made possible only when, back of the
external differences which rightfully
distinguish Municipalities from one
another we recognize respectfully and
reverently those qualities which make
every fellow man "a man for a that
and a that.''-Rev. Charles Fleischer,
Hebrew, Boston.
A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY
You parents have great responsibility
placed upon you in the procuring of
religious training and education of your
children Man. besides his material and
corporal being, which he has in COM
mon with other animals, has received
from his Crea tor a rational and an inn
mortal soul destined to tend to God as
to his last end. Hence it is your duty
to instruct and direct him toward that
end for which he has been created
Rev. T. NJ Kielty, Roman Catholic, st.
Louis
AIM HIGH.
Our aims should always be domina-
ted by the thought of the good of all
mankind, not in the present only but
the good that shall be for future years.
The duty that lies nearest, the things
that we can reach, must, of course,
chiefly engrOsS US and fill our days and
hours. But even these little things are
not unconnected with all the great
things of the great world Great hopes
and great thoughts and high and pure
motives even in humbleSt homes and
obscurest lives tell in the great sum-
ming up of influences that uplift hui
manity and bless mankind all around
the earth.-Rev. David Utter, Unitarian,
Denver.
No Star of Hope For Him.