The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-21
RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

AL Len
In the evolution of man character
Forbes, Congreg ationalist, Santa Bar
bara, Cal.
GET READY FOR HEAVEN.
If We have hope of heaven, we will
get ready for heaven.-Rev. w. J. Nc
Kittrick, Presbyterian, st. Louis.
A SAD MISTAKE.
To live simply for the present an6
for self is a sad mistake.-Rev. J. u.
McCord, Congregationa1ist, Chicago.
Sin has no more right to a place in
our life than a burglar has in our bed
room--Rev. John Thompson, Metho-
! dist. Chicago
HOW TO VALUE A MAN.
You cannot value man according to
what he is today, but according to
what he may one day become.-Rev.
Caleb A. Ridley. Monticello, Ga
OUR ANCIENT SABBATH
The obligation to observe the Sab
bath goes back to the very purpose of
God concerning the world--Rev. Jo-
sephus Stephan. Methodist, st. Louis.
A SOLEMN DUTY.
Whenever a man is in need we should
see the. opportunity. of helping him In
proportion to our ability. regardless of
his personality--Rev. c. B. Townsend,
TRUE PROGRESS.
Real progress is in man, not in houses
and crops and railroads and tele-
graphs and factories and machine tools.
Rev. DR.. David Utter, Unitarian, Dem
yer.
SINCERITY.
The sincere man is without self de-
ception selfiShness and pride. and God
will use every agency to bring sin
cere man to the light.-Rev. DR.. Byrd,
Methodist Atlanta.
EQUALITY OF WORK AND PLAY
Work and play must ever go hand in
hand. There should never be too mucn
on Of off e-1,< \
be separate.-Rev. r. D. P. Bennett.
Presbyterian, Germantown, Pa
LEARN TO LOVE.
Come to the heart of Jesus that you
love till your love touches the lowest
human being he died to save.-Rev. J.
J. Sullivan. Catholic, San Francisco.
TRUE GOODNESS.
The Master chose leaven. not varnish,
for his parable of the kingdom. The
goodness must work from within out
ward. Merely to splash it on the sur
face is a mockery and a shame.-Rev.
DR.. William r. Huntington, EpiScO-
palian, New York.
WHERE TO FIND COMFORT.
Where can we find the comfort which
we need? Surely it is only in the
self and of our higher life in HMM
the sympathy of our Masters life
drawn close to ours.ZRev. E. Burk,
Episcopalian, Philadelphia.
Oh CHRISTIANITY > WORKING F'ORCk<.
The working force of Christianity
has been the incarnation of the Son of
God for mans redemption. No other
faith has brought Gods love SO near or
furnished such motive for mans obey
ing the great command to love God SUI
premely.-Rev. DR.. John Henry Bar
rows, President Oberlin College.
ARE YOU A GRUMBLER?
A wasp is a comfortable housemate
in comparison with a fretting man or
woman. No vice except drunkenness
can so utterly destroy the happiness of
a house as grumbling. There are some
people who would grumble because
there was nothing to grumble about
Rev DR. Madison c. Peters, Baptist,
Brooklyn.
PRACTICAL RELIGION.
The true Christian ideal is symmetry.
the wise combining of diligence in bust
ness and fervency of spirit The fer
vency of spirit that is not founded on
the punctual and complete performance
of our earthly tasks is an imposture 1t
is balloon in the air without string or
anchor.-Eev. DIR. Robert Mackenzie,
Presbyterian, San Francisco.
CIVIC CONSCIENCE.
The voice of duty speaks as clearly to
cities as to individuals. There is civic
conscience as we'll as a personal moral
sense. The city not only has soul and
conscience, but the city is a con-
science. The city conscience is a COM
posite conscience, made up of the con-
sciences of all the citizens.-Rev- c. J.
Hall, Peoples Tabernacle, Denver.
OUR BIBLE NEEDS NO DEFENSE.
1t would be as we'll to set a poodle
dog to guard a lion to ask preacher
to defend the Bible. Turn the lion loose
and it will guard itself Uncoffin the
truth of God from the traditions of
men, give it an access to the broken
heart of humanity. and mankind will
be redeemed and earth will be an Eden
Rev. DIR. Bruce Brown, Christian
Church, Denver.
The words of Christ, in which he de-
clared his mission was to be worldwide
and must embrace all gentle nations,
may not strike us as particularly mar
velous since we are today everywhere
confronted by evidences of Christian
But their grandeur and
sublimity will be manifest when we