The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-11
RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

| Sin does not consist in doing wrong.
| Wrong-doing is the result of sin. Sin is
| inherent in mans nature.-Rev. l. q.
| Broughton, Baptist, Atlanta
CHANGES.
Let us not grow discouraged by
| changes. Look below the Sarface, and
| you will see the truth, which never
changes.-Rev. G. c. Lorimer, Baptist,
| New York.
WEALTH A MEANS, NOT AN END.
The modern millionaire is the natural
product of the modern competitive sys-
tenn There is no sin in striving for
wealth as the means to an end.-Rabbi
Levy, Pittsburg.
BUSINESS ON CHRISTIAN PRIN-
CIPLES.
Business which can not be conducted
on Christian principles is no business
which should be conducted by Christian
men.-Dr. George P. Eckman, Metho-
dist, New York
FOREBODING AND FORTHCOMING.
The vice of foreboding is very close
to the virtue of forelooking. 1t is
es out wherever there is light.-Dr.
Charles Wood, Presbyterian. Philadel
phia-
SIN NO PLEASURE.
No sadder picture can be imagined
than that which portrayS the inner life
of the sinner who seeks to satisfy the
cravings of his soul in sinful pleasures.
Rev. W. A. Hunter, Presbyterian,
Denver.
THE IDEAL HOME.
The intelligence and self-control which
the life in the world is bringing to wo-
man, added to her distinctly feminine
quantities, will in the end produce in
some form the ideal home.-Rev Wilson
M. Backus, Unitarian. Chicago.
WHAT SALVATION IS.
What, then, is the salvation that is
worthy of preaching today that will fit
the lives and thoughts of the people of
l.
sin. We leave the past with Cod
Rev. David Utter. Unitarian, Denver.
GOD THE BASIS OF LAW.
We must recognize that God is at
the basis of good government; that we
cannot have righteous laws rightly
maintained without strong Christian
spirit in the hearts of the people.-Rev.
DR.. Stephen w. Dana, Presbyterian,
Philadelphia
TYRANNY RESULT OF SIN.
The Son of God recognizes all tyran-
ny, wrong ard oppression to be the re-
suit of sin lind selfishness The mil
lennium will never come until enough
are on EARTH who have the spirit of
Christ to rule it--Rev. Henry F. Lutz,
Christian Church, Williamsburg. Pa
GODS TEST.
The refiner of metal sits above it and
is not satisfied until the surface of the
seething metal reflects clearly his inn
age. So God sets the same test upon his
children here, as they are made to
show in their lives his own image and
character-Rev. r. F. Fakes, Atlanta
FREE WILL
What a man does and is he chooses
to do and be. His acts have the quail
ity of moral goodness or of moral bad
ness and render him the proper object
of commentator If the former, or of
reprobation if the latter.=Rev. DR..
Thomas L. Allen, Episcopalian, Cazeno-
via, N. Y.
PRACTICING IMMORTALITY.
Live as you ought to live if life goes
on forever and the future is the har-
vest of the present. Think as you must
think if there is a day after today and
the eternal years of God belong to
truth and justice and righteousness
DR.. Washington GLADDEN., Congrega-
tionalist, Columbus, o.
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN
Young men, aim so to live right in
your own communities that men will
believe in you, that men will say of
YOU ST have tried him, 1 have trusted
him, 1 have watched him, and he's
true steel" I'd rather have men say
that of me than wear all the crowns in
Europe.-Rev. Edward Bristol, Presby-
terrain, Rochester
HOLY WORK
The investigator, the searcher of
truth, who discovers some better method
of sanitation or some way of making
the tenement districts more healthy or