The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-09
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations
The core of the cancer of sin is fin
se1fishness.- Rev. DR.. John Lindsay
Withrow, Presbyterian. Boston.
CITIZENSHIP AND DUTY
Remember that your citizenship is in
heaven and your duty here on the earth
below-Rev. James Heaney, Presbyte-
rian, Philadelphia
HOW TO JUDGE.
A mans life is to be judged by his
what he has achieved--Rev. Hugh
Black, Free Church, Edinburgh.
ONLY THE GOOD MAY KNOW.
Be sure that the language of divine
things can never be understood by ,,1 the
tan Church, Pittsburg-
A GOOD CURE.
Let me give you one more prescrip-
ton. If you want to be cured of
grumbling, go to work.-Rev. DIR. p. S.
Henson, Baptist, Chicago.
USE OF STRENGTH.
God does not make man strong
simply that he may be strong, but that
he may help others to get strong
Rev. r. c. Hobbs, Methodist, Spring
field, ILL.,
CRIME OF SELFISHNESS-
Selfshness is the most wretched form
of spiritual poverty. Life loses in the
proportion in which it withholds itself
and gains by all it gives.-Rev. c. j.
Hall, Peoples Tabernacle, Denver.
UNPURCHASABLE PEACE.
There is peace in unselfshness, in
cheerfulness, in resignation, and it is
a peace which no mere power Of gold
can acquire.-Rev. DR.. George H. Hep
worth, Congregationalist, New York.
A SHINING LIGHT.
The Bible then, we see, towers high
above all other books. AS the SUMS
light eclipses the light of the candle,
works of men.-Rev. H. P. Ashton, Bap-
fist, Atlanta.
WATCH YOUR CHILDREN.
In the name of God watch your chill
dren. Better be seemingly harsh that
their souls may truly live here and
hereafter than be weak and foolish
Rev. F. P. Dougherty, Catholic, Phila-
delphia-
THE BETTER PRAYER.
It is easy to pray for rain. 1t is more
great rich nation humble before him and
obedient to all his laws.-Rev. jeremiah
Cromer. Congregationalist. st. Louis.
IMMORTALITY.
Man may be cramped and narrowed
down and confined to doubt or darkness,
within his soul speak of an endless life.
Rev. DR.. w. D. Williams, Little Rock,
Ark.
TRUST IN GODS CARE.
God never sends a man on a mission
without having first prepared the way.
Fillow his directions, do your part, and
he will take care of the rest.-Rev. E. d.
w. Jones, African Methodist Episcopal,
Allegheny City, Pa
CIVIC VIRTUE NEEDED.
ha 70 ha h ic11a Of oix IL
virtue in all this country than is now
generally exhibited the power and
leisure that applied science has given
us will prove a curse and not a bless
ing.-Rev. David Utter, Unitarian, Den
yer.
FAITH.
All the great problems of life and
duty are ultimately solved by faith
helpless in the presence of all questions
that touch infinity, and yet infinity
hedges US round about on every side
Rev. Bruce Brown, Christian Church, |
Denver.
DEATH IS BUT AN INCIDENT.
Death is merely an incident in mans |
life After the soul has departed and |
all that is mortal of us has been con- |
signed to the dust from which we We're |
created, man still continues to live, for |
then it is that we receive a spiritual |
body Rev. H. Branson Richards, |
Lutheran, Philadelphia. |
GOD IN NATURE.
I think the church has done wrong, !
though unwittingly, when it has taught |
that Gods presence is more real with |
in the four walls of a chapel, or at the |
altar. than it is at the foot of a grand |
old tree or on the shore of a beau
tiful lake.-Rev. DR.. Charles H. Eaton, /
Universalist, New York.
DEGENERATION NEEDED.
Except a man-except you-be born
again you cannot see the kingdom of |
God, and may God write it indelibly |
on the heart of every one that there is |
of heart, of affections, of motives-a
complete regeneration, "a new birth by |
the spirit of Godfrey. Robert r. Lit
tel, Union Presbyterian Seminary
ARE YOU FORGING YOUR CHAIN?
Watch the man who is spending his
inheritance. for the paltry joys of |
passing hour. Watch him, 1 say, and |
there will come a time when he will |
come to himself aye, come to him
self digusted with himself and the |
world, a disappointed man; for sin is
not the finding of ones liberty, but |
rather the forging of ones chain.-Rev. |
DR.. G. Campbell Morgan, Evangelist.
TWO METHODS OF SERVICE.
In the service of God there are two
methods that prevail. One, the only safe
way, is the supreme love of God, which |
should always be the leading motive.
The other is the hope of reward, the
reward those that diligently seek him,
and while we have the assurance that
if we seek first the kingdom of God and |
his righteousness all things needful will
be added to us, yet honest and genuine
piety does not seek God for the favors
his powers can bestow upon US, but for
that love and fear of his holy name
a desire to please him-the safeguard to
deter from evil.-Rev- DR.. T. G. Upper,
Episcopalian, Atlanta
GROSSER HAS ENOUGH.