The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-15
RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.
Law is of God. but anarchy is of Sa-.
"a Il; ar Dr. Robert s Macarthur,
PRAYER.
Prayer brings the secret, powerful
thrill of life from -God.-Rev. r. ]. Big.
ham, Atlanta. Ga.
GODS FRIENDSHIP.
The only friendship forever merciful.
to our weakness is Gods.-Rev. F. E..
Hopkins, Chicago.
SAVED AND sAvIoRs.
We cannot save lost souls till we our
selves are saved.-Rev. David Utter.
Unitarians Denver.
THE GREAT WORD.
Mastery is the great word in the art.
of hfe.-Rev- William T. Brown, Con-.
gregationaIist, Rochester, N. Y.
THE REAL CHRIST.
Christ does not become the real treas
ure of your life until YOU come to know
him PERSONAL---VERY.. Louis Albert
Banks, Methodist, New York.
SIN IS MADNESS.
Sin is madness Sin is the wandering
of soul from the true ways of life
Sin is the action of a lost self. mad.
sef;-Rev. Spenser B. Meeser, Baptist
Philadelphia.
IDEALS.
As man survives or perishes by his
ideals, so men cannot grow and flourish
without the ideals that come from the
Godward look of the soul.-Rev NJ J.
Haw. Methodist South, st. Louis.
CANNOT BE HARMED.
Character is indestructible. The bull
let was never moulded nor was the blade
ever forged that can destroy the good
man. They may stop his breath, but
they cannot stop his infiuence.-Rev.
Frank Crane, Methodist. Chicago.
WHAT EDUCATION MEANS.
Education is the effort to have men
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sonality, to have each come to him
self" and awaken to his relations to his
world, to himself and to his God.-Rev.
Spenser B. Meeser, Baptist, Philadel-
phia.
SOWING AND REAPING.
Friends, we can't SOW the seeds of sin
without reaping death; can't SOW
the seeds of disloyalty without reaping
lawlessness without reaping anarchy
Rev. j. T. M. Johnston, Baptist, St
Louis.
ONLY ENDURING THINGS.
We shall know that the only enduring
things, the only satisfying things, are
those which have to do with the i'm
mortal kingdom of God, the things
which God gives to those who seek first
his kingdom and his righteousness
Rev. George w. King, Presbyterian,
St. Louis.
NOT IN VAIN
IF today the people register a vow
that they will so strengthen the home,
the school, the press and the church
through wise legislation and noble pre-
cept, expel anarchy, lawlessness, injus-
tice, class hatred from the land, our
martyred president will not have died
in vain.-Rev. DIR. Newell D. Hills,
Congregationalist, Brooklyn.
FREE SPEECH.
The responsibility which rests on all
free speech is a privilege granted, not
for abuse, but to be guarded, and when
abused the individual abusing the priv
ilege should unquestionably be marked
and deprived of that right, which is
much to be cherished, but much more
dangerous when misused.-Rev. DIR. ].
G.. Bolton. Presbyterian. Philadelphia.
WHY CHRIST PRICED MEN.
The visible Christ loved the multi
tude and gathered from among them
many of his followers. He cared little
for the external conditions of life but
saw the soul, with its depth of need
and it's height of possibility. He priced
men not because they were rich, or
poor. or learned, or ignorant but be-
cause they were men.-Rev. DR.. A. G.
Dixon, Baptist, Boston.
CHRIST WILL FINALLY TRIUMPH.
The nations today do not recognize
the Lord Jesus Christ but in the last
analysis of all politics and commerce
and the selfish and cruel ambitions of
men and nations it is found that. do
what they will in their unbelief the
fulfill the word of his prophecy of the
evangelization of the world.-Rev.
Harris H. Gregg, Presbyterian, Chi
cago.
WORTHY CONSERVATION.
To so live that to die is gain and 70
be conscious that it is a gain, to be
glad of the exchange of an earthly for
a spiritual body and to fall asleep in the
certainty of waking in a higher and a