The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachin gs o
All Denominations.

Gems Cleaned From the Teachin gs o
All Denominations.
We must learn to use the world and
not abuse it.-Rev. H r. Cooley, Cleve-
land, o.
A SAFE RESTING PLACE.
A Christian soul rests safe in the
majesty of Gods love.-Rev. DIR. Mac
kenzie, Presbyterian, San Francisco.
INFINITE FOOLISHNESS
The wisdom of this world that turns
from Christ is infinite foolishness.-
Rev. T. E. Sharp, Methodist, St. Louis.
FRATERNITY OF THE CHURCH.
The fraternity of the chu,.ch of God
is the keynote of the whole situation
Rev. DR.. Alonzo Monk, Methodist, At
lanta. Ga.
RELIGION IMPARTS MORAL FORCE
Among the many arguments used to
prove the divinity of the Christian re-
Hgion is the moral force it gives to its
Observation-Disclosures Corrigan, Cath
Ollie, New York.
BODY DEPENDENT UPON THE
HEAD
Jesus Christ is the head of the church.
Just as the body is dependent upon the
mead, Just SO is the church dependent
upon Jesus Christ.-Rev. DR.. J. Ross
Stevenson, Presbyterian, Chicago.
BOTH SOUL AND SEED NEEDED.
We Will do we'll TO keep in mind that
there can be no fruit bearing without
both soul and seed are present and both
are of Godfrey. DR.. j. M. Schick,
Dutch Reformed Church, Washington.
THE PURPOSE OF THE BIBLE.
The Bible was intended neither for
Fetch nor as a magazine of proof texts,
but as a means of revealing God to
man and man to himself in order that
we might have life.-Rev. l.. A. Gran
dali, Baptist, Chicago
REFORMING THE MIND.
Mental reform is more essential than
the government of the body. A man
may use tobacco and be man. but let
a person speak ill of his neighbor and
all the manhood goes out of him.-Rev.
F. E. Mason, Spiritualist, New York.
YIELDING THE WILL TO CHRIST.
Vixen the will is lovingly, gladly,
freely, yielded, then the whole life be-
longs to Christ, and the jar and con-
fusion of conflict cease from the soul
and order and peace reign.-Rev.
George E. Rees, Baptist, Philadelphia.
COMMUNICATING WITH GOD.
te The hobiest message for wireless
through dreams and visions and vari-
Gus telepathies an omnipresent God
communicates with every soul that
faith has made receptive.-Rev. George
Snivley, Christian, st. Louis.
THE FORCES OF EVIL
The example of Israel's first king,
conscience lashed ana forsaken by God
and man, flying by night to seek a
of the devastation wrought by forces
of evil when marshaled in the soul of
man.-Rev. Bruce Brown. Denver.
TRUTH OF GOD INVISIBLE.
The truth of God is invisible, like ev-
erything spiritual. 1t is the hidden
meaning of the story, parable, miracle
or legend that constitutes the word of
God. All the parallels of Jesus are fic-
more inspired than these.-Rev. Fred
erick w. Miller, Universalist, Chicago.
POWER IN THE PULPIT.
The pulpit must be manned by men
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ligion that a man. lives that gives ring
and power to the religion that he
breaches. The chief reason why the
pulpit has no more power is because
there is too much devil behind it.-Rev.
]. Layton Mause, Presbyterian, st.
Louis.
LIES THE BANE OF SOCIETY.
Lies, receptions, false pretenses of
every sort are the bane of society, and
even when perpetrated with good in
tentions and in the supposed interests
of religion or in the interests of our
children or of other people whom we
love they are none the less evil and
dangerous.-Rev. David Utter Unita-
rian, Denver.
DANGEROUS DELUSIONS IN
CHURCHES.
We enjoy fiattery. Let some one
smile at the speed of our ship, and it
pleases US, but let them shake their
sions creep into some churches, and it
pleaSeS the people because it is so easy
to live a Christian there.-Rev. J. E.
Woodward, Methodist. st. Louis.
MONEY TO MAKE MEN
Men were never made to make mon
ey; money is to make men. And it does
make men whenever they see the mech
anism of business to be a thing divine-
ly ordered for the distribution of COM
fort and beauty and intelligence and
righteousness in the world. Property
is glorified when it becomes the serv-
ant of humanity and the minister of
Jesus Christ-Rev. DR.. F. L. Good
speed, Presbyterian, Springfield, Mass. |
GIVING HEART TO GOD
A man may be very sincere in his |
act of giving his heart to God in bulk |
but if he watches himself a little care
fully he will very soon find that sur |
rendering his heart as a whole is per-
fectly compatible with retaining in his |
own hands good many of the pieces. |
Unduly accentuating what is loosely |
called conversation leads men to take |
only a languid interest in Christian Gull |
ture.-Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, New York. |
THE HIGHEST STANDARD.
All knowledge is the result of COM /
of a standard. What is the standard |
of human conduct, looked at from the !
eternal and omniscient point of view? |
Is it the average man Neveri 1t is |
the perfect man. That is the ideal held /
before humanity; that is what we are |
to approximate, and by our
success or failure in doing SO we are |
when measured beside Jesus Christ, the
perfect man, that determines our rank.
Rev Cyrus Townsend Brady, Episco-
palian, Philadelphia.
GIFT FROM MRS. M'KINLEY. /