The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-11
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

| RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings Of
All Denominations.
God honors those who honor his serv-
ants.-Rev. DR.. Frank De Witt Talmage,
Presbyterian, Chicago. @@~
SIGN OF THE TIMES.
One of the most striking signs of our
Rev. E. c. Worcester, Episcopalian, Phil
adeIphia.
JUSTICE REQUISITE TO RELIGION.
Religion and love will get small head
way until justice arrives-justice indus
trially and socially.-Rev- d. N. Beach.
Congresatienalist, Denver.
WINNING HEAVEN.
Men and women today do not seek to
win heaven by denying themselves. the
comforts of earth.--Rev. C. f. Patterson,
Uniyersalist, New York.
HIGHER EDUCATION.
The main purpose of the higher educa-
ton is to produce a certain temper Of
mind. certain way of looking at things.
Rev DR.. Birge, Madison. Wis.
STRUGGLE TO BE FREE
The present movement in theology and
IN Biblical criticism is the struggling of
the word of God to be free.-Rev. E. M.
Smith, Methodist, Bloomington, III.
A true counting of the cost of our re-
ligion means living righteously by getting
rid of our sins by faith and grace OF
Christ.-Rev. DR.. Babbitt, Episcopalian,
Brooklyn.
/ POWER OF THE CoMMANDANTs
Christ lived up to the commandments,
hence his power. and men who have lived
up to them have led powerful ives.-Rev.
Dr. Van Dyke, Presbyterian, Princeton,
n. J.
CLEAN THINKING
/ Clean thinking is one of the most i'm
portant elements in life, and mans INTEL
lect is one of the nobIest sendowments.-
Rev. DR.. Robert Russell to Students of
Western University of Pennsylvania.
WISDOM FROM ABOVE.
( The wisdom that comes from aboEe is
first pure and then peaceful. The man
that wants to live peacefully and not pure
is turning the thing around and can't sue
ceed.-Rev. DR.. Tinker, Baptist, Brooklyn.
THE REWARD OF SERVICE.
The rupture on the summit of the noun
tain is possible to all those, and only to
those, who ere eager to do service at the
bottom of the mountain-Chance1lor Henry
Buchtel to Students of Denver University.
RELIEF FOR LIES BURDENS.
There is not a calling of the yoke or
pressure of the burden but can be relieved
ton of the teaching of Jesus. Wherever
his spirit abounds true liberty will always
prevail.-Rev. Frederick e. Hopkins, Con
gregationalist, Chicago.
CHRISTENDOM AND CHRISTIANITY
Christendom is the stumbling stone OF
Christianity. Christendon has the name
of Jesus Christ, but lacks his spirit. Make
Christendom Christian, wholly obedient to
the will of Christ. and earth would become
an Eden.-Rev. DIR. David G. Wylie, Pres
| byterian. New York. sss.
FATHER AND JUDGE.
In human he :
combination of gentleness and the iron
will In human affairs we can only make
substantial progress by. the use of such
clements of power. And it is so in any
true understanding of God, He is our
Father and our .Iudge.-Rev. Frederick E.
Hopkins, Congregationalist.s Chicago Is4e
UNITY OF THE CHURCH -
If the church were united, we could
make q tremendous onslaught on the sins
Of today Give me any reason why there
should be5a church and that is the reason
why it should be united: No argument,
no reasoning. could convince me that any
thing for which Jesus prayed is not both
desirable randi expedjenk-Rev. j. E.
Bounds, Akron, O. .s- 3A
ETERNITY OF MATTER.
Matter is eternal. 1t is the manifesto
ton of spirit, and as long as spirit lives
it must have medium of manifestation
Death is merely a coming into our own
Just as much as we deserve. We cannot
enter a life of bliss. We will be very much
longer in the beyond That beyond may
be here. 1t cannot be far away.-Profes
sor Nesbitt, Unitarian, Kansas City, Mo.
REASON AND CONSCIENCE.
The democracy of government and re
ligion rests upon the rights of as
man, the rights of the people to establish
cur form of government, the rights OF
reason and conscience in religion. From
the nigh ground and vision of the uni
versal fatherhood and brotherhood the
Distinctions of race and color the acct
dents of poverty ard wealth. are lost in
the great light of the infinite justice ard
love. We are human beings, brothers. be-
fore we are Jew or Christians, Catholic
or Protestant-Rev. DR.. H W. Thomas,
Independent, Chicago.
THE TRAGEDY OF SIN.
Some lives are poer2s. some symphony,
some an oratorio, scme a comedy. some a
farce and some, alas, tragedy. The
Greek tragic poet thought of his hero as
driven on to the fatal issue of hopeless
struggle by the mysterious power of fate.
To the thought of the Christian tragedian
the one who is overwhelmed by the waves
of hopeless ruin is driven on, not by some
irresistible power without him. but by the
power of moral depravity which he has
developed in himself. The struggle results
in disaster because the doomed man Is
bound by chains of steel which he has
forged for himself. Back of every tragedy
will be found a disturbing element, and
that element is sin. It is not fate, but
sin. that crowds men to the wall.-Rev.
Polemus H Swift, Methodist, Chicago.
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