The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-16

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

RELIGIOUS
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
AIT Denominations.
The highest test Of love is obedienee-
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OUR INHERITANCE.
Do we realize the inheritance left us by
a cruci6ed God?-Rev. p. c. O'Reilly, Cath
Ole, Brooklyn
THE CHRISTIANS PRIVILEGE.
The Christians privilege is one of great
DR.. William J. HoItzclaW,
Baptist, Atlanta. Ga
THE Law OF NATURE
for it somehow. some time. somewhere.
Stelzie, Presbyterian, St. Louis.
TWO SIDES OF LIFE
one side of the Christian life: the other
A. s. Carver, Unitarian. Worcester, Mass.
sELF-DENIAL MEANS PROGRESS.
Self denial always means progress. It
takes the one who practices it from a low
president San Francisco National Training
School.
HOPE FOR SOMETHING BETTER.
The man who lives without ambition or
ter out of his life is practically dead
Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage, Presbyter-
ldlfs SufCdSO-
RELIGION AND CITIZENSHIP.
If Christians were better citizens. the
gospel might have a chance. The senti-
ment of sermons and gospel meetings
should be carried to the polls.-Rev. DR..
Bacon, Indianapolis, Ind.
BURDEN MAKERS.
Every worthless man increases the
weight of the worlds sorrow. Every selfish
misery.-Rev. DIR. Donald Sage Mackay,
: Reformed church, New York
DESTINY OF THE RACE.
The destiny of the race depends upon
not upon the kind of fruit the first in
dividual man or woman may have eaten
Rev. Adolph Roeder, Sw~edenborgian,
Orange, N. J..
THE MOST USELESS THING.
The most useless thing in all this world
is doubt It has left a path of desolation
wins no battles, settles no contests, builds
no empires Conviction does. Believe your
belief and doubt your doubts.-Rev. DR..
Sneed, Presbyterian, Pittsburg.
RESULTS OF INTOXICATION.
More than one-half Of crime is due to
intoxication--Rev. J. H. linn, Lutheran,
Akron, o.
GODS DISCIPLINE MERcIFUL.
Gods severest discipline is always mer-
Brooklyn.
TEMPTATIONS OF COLLEGE LIFE.
Men speak about the temptations of col
lege life as if there were no temptations
in business, as if the banker and broker
lived in a holier atmosphere and as if the
apostle of WALL street were in closer touch
with the Ten commandments than other
men.-Rev. DIR. Patton to students Of
Princeton university.
SUPREMACY OF CHRIST.
Among the changes taking place in the
political, social and literary world while
the leaders Of the past are ~Ielegated to
the rear and those whom our fathers hon.
ored are despised by their sons, Christ
steadily holds his grip on the lives of men
and women everywhere.-Rev. Mr.. Kinds,
Methodist. Chicago.
SPIRITUAL TRIUMPH OF CHRIST.
The spiritual triumph of Christ over the
interior being of humanity is much more
his religion over the standards of art, lit
e%rature, civics or social recourse. Zeal
this in mind when they are fearful of the
spread of the modern unbelief and indif-
ferentism.-Rev. Henry O'Keefe, Catholic,
San Francisco.
ETHIC WITHOUT DOCTRINE.
The popular cry is for the ethics of
Christ without his doctrinal statements.
c chnt menns S! sne s9op lack at t Of am alPhanet Wit ii
result either in unhappiness, because we
have not given the soul the supply it must
have, or in Inconsistency of life, because
it leaves us in ignorance of the orders I'M
der, which we are protesting, to SAIL
Bishop Cheney, Episcopalian, Chicago.
STANDARD OF RELIGIOUS FAITH.
AS the ages run on, 1.-the authority of Jesus
becomes more and more the final normal
STANDARD of religious faith. The world is
steadily losing satisfaction in the oracles
of philosophers and in the doctrines of
dogmatists: hence creeds and councils are
of lighter weight than ever they have been
in Christian times. Bold and blatant I'M
belief is neither louder nor as loud in it's
assertions as it once was.-Rev. j. L. With
row, Congregationalist, Boston.
DEMANDS OF THE WORLD.
When you try to suit the church to the
demands of the world you will end in it's
entire destruction as a force of good and
righteousness. You will find the real un-
DERIVING objection that many nave to the
church is that it forbids a life of sin.
Some seem to have the idea that the
church should relieve men of all labor:
that it should make life one continual pic
mic and holiday; that it should refuse the
satisfaction of no deSire.-Rev. J.. w. Ro-
mich, Lutheran, Allegheny City, Pa.
i THE DIVINE AUTHORITY.
The divine authority of Jesus Christ dis
tinctly prohibits any modern Joshua from
killing his way into any modern Canaan
and if the world deems necessary such
things as are being done in South Africa
and the Philippines it has no right to claim
any Christian sanction for the enterprises
and the methods employed. The only peint
we are just now making is that, granting
thai the brute policy is necessary and
therefore right, we can not put Christ's
name to it.-Rev. DIR. Charles H. Park
hurst, Presbyterian, New York.