The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings Of
All Denomination
Submission to the divine mind is es-
sentia1 for our personal happiness and
future safety.-Rev. George Adams.
Methodist, Brooklyn.
ELEMENTS OF COMMANDING
POWER
In all things obedience and self abb
negation are the elements of command
ing power..Rev DIR. Frank w. Luce.
Methodist. st. Louis
USING THE GOSPEL GUN
The gospel gun is Satan's dread, and
the soul that has the courage to use it
will put him to fiight--Rev. DIR. William
J. Holtzclaw. Baptist, Atlanta. Ga.
RETURNING FROM THE FAR
COUNTRY.
The far country is never so far away
but that the penitent prodigal can find
his way back from it to the heavenly
homestead.-Rev. DR.. Frank De Witt
Talmage, Presbyterian, Chicago.
SEEING THE GOOD.
The very best trait one can develop
is the art of seeing only the good. the
perfect and the true, and these are dis
cerned from the God standpoint.-Rev.
E. E. Mason. Spiritualist Brooklyn.
ONLY REMEDY FOR ILLS.
The Christian religion is not only the
philosophy of the social fabric. but it is
also tie only remedy for the ills under
which the race lies and from which the
gospel sets men free.-Rev. DIR. Beattie,
THE INFINITE BEAUTY.
Paul declared that eye hath not seen
the good things God bad for them that
love him. 1t is only finite beauty that
is beyond it's ken.-Rev. DR.. Charles w.
Byrd, Methodist, Atlanta, Ga.
VOLUNTARY CHOICE
The aggressive useful character is
Jesus Christ as a personal Saviour and
following him as leader. BY such
characters God blesses the world
Bishop Joyce. Methodist, Pittsburg.
RELIABLE TRUTH.
It is a blessed comfort to know that
the large majority of the people desire
an unchanging. reliable truth that will
hold both in life and in death Only
rest-Rev. ]. L. Lee, Presbyterian, New
York
FOR POOR AS WE'LL AS RICH.
Christianity was made as much for
search as for the wealthy and cultured.
The church is not narrow. She is only
loyal to God and the teachings of
Christ.-Rev. William Pardow, Roman
Catholic, New York.
THE SPIRITUAL SIGHT.
Reason is better than sight. Reason
is spiritual sight. Reason builds evil
dences on which faith, which is simply
confidence in God or right reason lean
ing on God. can rest satisfied and Sc
cure.-Rev. DIR. Landrum, BAPTIST, At
lanta, Ga
UNsELFIsH SERVICE.
No man or woman can 'fenter into
life have eternal life. unless there is
some unselfish service in their lives
This unselfish service is what gives life
it's chief interest. brings US into its
kernel, does not feed US on husks-Rev.
A. BHkovsky, Universalist. Baltimore.
THE EQUIPMENT OF LIFE.
The knowledge that seeks no express
sion in service is absolutely worthless.
Highest thought and highest knowledge
are the equipment for life. We must
live nobly. All vocations must be con-
sidered sacred Industry is the flower
of the conscience of the race, which
DR.. George A. Gordon, Boston. to Har-
ward Seniors.
FIRST SIN THE HARDEST.
The first lie is the difficult lie To tell.
not the tenth. n 1t the twentieth. not the
fiftietb 1t is the first glass of whisky
which is the hardest to drink, not the
one which the drunkard takes Just be-
fore he enters the reptile inhabited dun
geons of delirium tren ems. 1t is the
first seed of sin which is hard to SOW.
not the fiftieth nor the one hundredth.-
Rev. DIR. Frank De Witt Ta1mage, Pres
byterian. Chicago.
INTELLECTUAL HON Eo1 T.
Intellectual honesty is intellectual
proportion, clearness and vigor- 1t is
ability to know how to relate the truths
of life. SO as to give to each its due
honor in a clear and constructive tone
1t is to be courageous and make the ex-
pressed belief of the church conform
to the deep faiths of the heard of which
man has never been wholly barren and
which, under Jesus Christ's teaching.
have been in the life Of man.-Rev- @.
E. Cunningham, Universalist, Kansas
Civ. Mo.
REMORSE AND REPENT NCE.
We cannot emphasize too deeply the
difference between remorse and re-
pentance. II sorrow for i'll doing could
give assurance Of absolution, we might
believe that not only Judas, but all
others who have felt the overwhelming
pain Of retribution, will be received into
the heavenly city. but the sorrow for
sin which commends itself to God is
sorrow which takes cognizance NOT
merely of the sins consequence. but of
it's heinous character as offensive to
Godfrey. DR.. BurreIf, Dutch Reform
ed New York.
- TEACHING THE GOSPEL
Learning is before teaching. but in
acquiring the knowledge of Christ it
need not be long before. Thus the
gospel has spread from man to man.
for when a man acquired the grace OF
God he first impaired this fact to his
most intimate friend and attempted to
bring him in personal contact with
God This was but natural. but yet
the apostles did not confine their teach
ings to men of their own race alone.
So Christianity spread over the world.
beginning, as the gospel tells US. at
Jerusalem, but the gospel says nothing
| as to where it shall send.-Rev-l E. c.
Moore, Congregationalist, Providence,
R. l.
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