The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-14
RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
ALI Denominations

RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations
We shall not really live until we live
again-Rev Dr. George H. Hepworth,
Congregationalist, New York
Nothing can take the place of reso-
lutte will.-Rev. DR.. John T. M. john
ston, Baptist, ST. Louis.
EVOLUTION.
comes out of suffering.-Rev. r. F.
Coyle, Presbyterian. Denver.
THE MODEST VICTORY.
To be willing to suffer defeat rather
than to win unworthy victory is itself
the nObleSt victOry.-ReV. DR.. j. L.
jackson. Baptist, Chicago.
BEST FOR THIS WORLD.
ment for time nerely-Rev DR.. J. c.
Armstrong, Baptist, st. Louis.
HOW TO RETAIN FAVOR.
Nations as well individuals retain
the favor of the skies only as they do
the will of the inf1nite.-Rev. DR.. Pole
mus H. Swift, Methodist Chicago.
DO YOUR PART.
If we make the church of Christ
manifestly worth loving, the people
will not fail to love her.-Rev. DR.. s.
B. Warner, Methodist, st. Louis.
HONOR IN ALL STATIONS.
A bootblack who does his duty is as
honorable as the governor of the state
and, being honorable, can afford to re-
joice-Rev. J. c. Solon on, Baptist, At
lanta.
THE ONLY SAVING POWER.
Righteousness is the only thing which
can save the nation, the state, the
church or the individual from failure
Professor John w. Wetzel, Congrega-
tionalist, Yale University.
EARNEST CITIZENSHIP.
God give US citizenship that shall
be trumpet tOngued for the right until
the powers that be are supplanted by
the powers that ought to be.-Rev. c.
J. Hall, Peoples Tabernacle. Denver.
UNCHANGEABLE RELIGION.
The thought of no century is final,
and each century brings different ideas
active principle is always the same
Rev Charles w. Byrd, Methodist, At
lanta.
THE FOUNTAIN HEAD OF WISDOM
Man, with all his learning has not
got beyond the Bible. All our ideas of
progress. with all the forward looking
spirit of modern Christendom, are due
to the Bible.-Rev. H. p. Aston, Bap-
fist. Philadelphia.
HOLY LIVES.
1t may not be ours to utter convinc-
ing arguments, but it may be ours to
live holy lives. 1t may not be ours to
may be ours to be noble and sweet and
pure--Dean Farrar, Anglican Church,
Canterbury, England
DIFFICULTIES.
Let us learn to thank God for diff
culties. They are a part of our diSci-
pline. Canaan lies on the other side of
Red seas and the Jordan. We need not
cross either of them till we come to
them.-Rev. DIR. Theodore L. Cuyier,
Presbyterian, Brooklyn
WHY WE ARE HERE.
You are not put into life for mis-
sion or to do great things. You and 1
a nh made
women, to do the things that God puts
into our hands 10 do. be they great or
be they little-Rev Dr.. Lyman Alb
bolt, Congregatlonalist. Bro klyn.
THE ONLY REALTY.
We argue and dispute about the Cos
pei, but it remains airy and unreal I'M
til we come face to face with genuine
Christian love in action, bearing and
hoping and enduring all things.-Rev.
Thomas H. barlow, Literary Superin-
tendent Baptist and Foreign Bible So
ciety.
OUR NOBLEST TREASURER
Man lives not by bread alone, but by
love and hope and faith, and because
the so-called sacred Scriptures of the
world more or less perfectly voice these
higher aspects of human nature, they
constitute our noblest treasure.-Rev.
Thomas B. Gregory. Before the Chicago
Liberal Society.
FORGET SIN.
Forget your own sins. Forget the sins
of your neighbors. Our memory of
them is sometimes more vivid than the
memory of our own. Do not allow
such remembered transgressons to
spoil the peace and purity of your soul
Rev. DR.. Francis L. Patton. Presby-
terrain, President Princeton University
SUCCESSFUL, BUT HAD GROVELED
A few years ago a man of many mil
lions called me to his bedside when he
was dying. In his last hours he spoke
out frankly Doctor" he said, 1--WE
failed, for I've groveled." Yet the world
called him successful His phrase I've !
groveled," has stuck to me as express
ing much--Rev. Dr. w. S. Rainsford,
Episcopalian. New York
FEED YOUR CHILDREN'S SOULS.
In so-called Christian homes children
are neglected as to their spiritual ma
lures AS little animals they are we'll I
cared for. but that is all. Parents
and decide questions of amusement ami
companions and politics, but the SUBJ
ject of religion, the most important of i
ALL they must decide for themselves |
Bishop James M. Thoburn. Methodist.
HOW TO FIND TRUE HAPPINESS
Man possesses fame, but this does |
not satisfy the cravings of his soul; |
he seeks sensual pleasure, but with this |
come repulsion and a reaction, and |
money, but none of these brings true |
happiness, for all of them are only of |
the external of nan and not of man |
himself. 1t is only by a constant seek |
ing for something noble and better |
than we can ever possess in this life, |
by ever seeking a fuller, truer and /
wider life, that we can expect to be- |
come men--Rev. Nathaniel Mooney, /
Catholic, Chicago.