The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-23
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings Of
All DISCRIMINATORY.

RELlGlUUS IHUUOHl.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.
Christianity is the religion of justice
as wen as mercy.-Rev. DIR. Cortland
THE TEST OF WEALTH.
If a man can say, IT am a man, and
nothing that is human Is beyond my
care" then say he is rich--Rev- DR..
Savage, Unitarian, New York
FACE TO BE LOVED.
The sweetest thought to me OF all is
that Christ's is a face that wants to
be loved.-Rev. DR.. Frank De Witt
Talmage, Presbyterian, Chicago
DIFFERENCE TO OTHERS.
We help ourselves and help each other
in living and working in Difference to the
rights of others.-Rev. c. A. Langston'
Unitarian, Atlanta. Ga.
MAN WALKS BY FAITH.
From the first step of the child to the
last step into the cold waters of what
we call death man walks by faith.-Rev.
DIR Lowry, Baptist, Kansas City, Mo.
THE ONE BASIS
There is but one basis of happy life
the practice of virtue and the love of
truth.-Rev. DR.. Elwood Worcester to
Students of Pennsylvania University.
THE CONDITION OF ENTRANCE.
Character is the condition of entrance
into the presence of God. character of
heliness-Christ in you-is the hope of
glory in an endless etern1ty.-ttev. ). Il.
Caughey, Presbyterian, Rochester.
WARNING THE YOUNG.
There is no office of faithful preacher
or of the schoolteacher or of the college
professor of the newspaper more i'm
portant than to swing the red light of
danger in the eyes of the boys and girls
Rev. ]. c. Hall, Congresationalist. Den
yer.
PURPOSE IN EVERYTHING
God has a purpose in everything. But
Ut C~<l1 hoo, hi fvor
the ages, purpose too profound for the
finite mind, too farreaching for human
comprehension, unaided by the divine
spirit.-Rev. M. P. Fixes. Baptist, Balti-
more.
CROWNED WITH A HALO.
God takes the life We have to live here.
with all it's varying conditions, and
crowns it with halo, making living a
joy in that it is a foretaste, faint gleam-
ing, of fife that is to come.-Rev DR.. ].
W. Walden, Presbyterian, Athens, Ga.
UNDER SCRUTINY FROM ABOVE.
Every man is a creator, and on him
rests the responsibility of making his
work what it should be- working for the
ways remembering that he is under
scrutiny from above.-Rev. DR.. Alsop,
Episcopalian. Brooklyn
MORAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Every has conscience and a
sense of some sort of moral responsible
ity. He will either worship the true God
or some false god. All character is
either positive or negative. God blesses
the world by true misunderstanding
Joyce, Methodist, Chicago.
GETTING AWAY FROM VICE.
The tendency of human life is to move
out of contact with vice, to get as far
away from it as possible. The tendency
of the Christian gospel is to move into
contact with vice fast as possible
and to overcome it with good. AS people
gain competence they move away from
the home in which by frugality and
Righteousness they have prospered.-Presi-
dent Faunce, of Brown University, Provi-
dence, r. l.
WILL KEEP HIS PROMISE.
The dear Lord, who watches the SPAR
rows fight and fall and who has given
rs some faint glimpse of what it is to be
will keep the wonderful promise, II go to
prepare a place for you." and we need
have no disturbing thoughts, but, on the
contrary. perfect confidence. Our chief
concern should be how to make the best
and the most of this life, for If we are
in the right now we surely cannot go
wrong hereafter.-Late Rev. George H.
Hepworth. Congregationalist.
TRUE FRIENDSHIP.
As dews to the parched earth. as the
sail to the shipwrecked mariner, so is
friendship amid the cares and trials of
life. If men decry friendship, it is be-
cause they have selected those unworthy
of trust or because they themselves are
inconstant. Falsity in friends is impossf-
BILE 1t only occurs where masked
friendship has been the counterfeit of
virtue. So called friends deceive because
they never should have been selected as
friends-Rev DR.. Levy, Hebrew, Pitts
burg.
THE AGE DEMANDS FACTS.
This is an age of facts. Men are de-
| manding the facts before they accept
| anything. Every claim. whether made
| for new machine, a new industrial en-
| terprise or new theory, must meet this
| test. Christianity must meet 1t also. "You
| claim your religion transforms the char
acter of the person embracing it? Very
| well, let us see if it does" And it is q
duty we owe such questioners to show
| them by our keeping of our Lords COM
| mandments that our companionship with
| him is Transforming our 1ives.-Rev Mil
ton ]. Norton. Congregationalist. Sar
| Francisco.
| NO NEED OF A CHURCH TRUST.
| This world does not need church trust
| The church today would not be SO powerful
| either in numbers or in influence. had il
| not been for the distinct work of the diff
| ferent divisions. Neither would its mer
and machinery be so efficient. The worle
! owes debt to every denomination thai
| has been true to the gospel of Jesus Chris
| and the New Testament. One unmistak
| able sign of the times is that we are get
| ting farther away from organic church
union and closer to the more importan
thing, unity of effort and unity in tn,
name of Jesus Ch-ist.-Rev. C. ]. Hall
| Denver.
CHURCH NOTES.