The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-15

l Il y 81 1lOl against ludI AL all
archist cannot live beneath its flag
Rev. j. G. Youlxer, Methodist, Chicago.
IMPOTENT.
Anarchy may shake its shriveled fist
| in the face of law and order, but it will
accomplish no more than if it shook its
| puny hand at the solar system.-Rev.
| DIR. George 7. Purves, Presbyterian, New
| York.
POOR THOUGH RICH.
Many a man has made a million dol
| lars and still been a failure. He only
| is truly rich who enriches mankind
| Character is the basis of all perma-
nent promotion.-ReV. J. T. NJ. John
ston, Baptist, St Louis.
CANNOT ESCAPE RELIGION.
The man who denounces Christia nifty
and the church is not free from them
but in every bitter word he betrays the
fact that they influence. hamper and
hold him.-Rev. E. Bradford Leavitt,
Unitarian, San Francisco.
TOO MUCH FOR GOD?
There are 1853 hours in the week.
most, two of them to Gods worship.
Is that too much to ask when all our
hours are strictly God's?-Rev. John
Price, Roman Catholic, Pittsburg.
HUMAN, YET DIVINE.
Since the church is made of man it
is necessarily imperfect. But the fact
that it has been able to confer heaven
ly blessings upon the world shows that
it has in itself something of the divine.
Rev Bruce Brown, Christian Church,
Denver.
EDUCATION NEEDED.
We cannot have freedom in a republic
without it's responsibilities. We be-
lipve that there is a better way. Our
system of public education needs to be
an education. to touch the perverted
minds of those who reach our shores.
Bishop Henry G. Potter, EpiSco-
palian, New York.
DIVINE Discomfort
In this country alone the poor man
has exceptional privileges and oppor-
tunities. He is filed with divine
discomfort which forever seeks a higher
level, and his happiness lies in his
dreams and the possibility of realizing
them.-Rev. DR.. George H. Hepworth,
Congregationalist, New York.
THE MEANING OF SUICIDES.
A people or nation can receive no
other condemnation so severe as a
large percentage of suicides. For un-
less the vast and overwhelming ma
iority finds life good something is
uErighteousness somewhere Rev. Da-
v1d Utter. Unitarian, Denver.
TRUST IN GODS WORD.
Do not let any opponent of simple
faith in the affirmations of holy scrip
doubts on the reliability of the Bible.
Take it as it comes to you. Trust its
teachings. Turn deaf ear to all who
would defame it's integrity and trust
wOrthinesS.-Rev John L. Withrow,
Pr esbyterian, Boston
LOSE SELF IN GOD AND DUTY.
Self must become subordinate to God
The individual must lose sight of his
own being and so clothe himself with
the spirit of God as to become Il unit
with the spirit of prophet and sage.
What matters it whether future genera
lions learn that one has lived? The
individual must sink all vainglorious
ambition-sink it out of sight, and think
only of what his duty here on earth
should be.-Rev. DIR. E.hrenreich, He
brew, Philadelphia.
OUR SOCIAL LIFE NEEDS CHRIST.
There is but little religion in the
social world. God is hardly recognized
Christians seem to be ashamed of their
professions in society. Jesus Christ is
rarely ever the topic of conversation
You do not know who are professors of
religion when YOU get into the social
whirl- Christians are not now known
by their walk and converse ton. Cos
sip, card playing. theater going and