The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-28
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

GenS CLEANED FROM the 46acn1nSS OF
All Denominations.
Our world is on the rocks: Christ is
in the lifeboat.-The Late Rev. DR.. T.
De Witt Talmage.
SELFISH EXISTENCE IS DEATH
In the divine sight unselfish existence
is life, selfish existence is death-Rev
]. Is. Smythe, Swedenborgian, New
York.
THE PLACE TO BEGIN.
We are called to prepare the way of
the Lord. Begin with your own heart
Rev. John E. White, Baptist. Atlanta,
Ga
THE WORK NEAREST AT HAND.
Our obligation and opportunity Is 70
Christianize the little world of people
among whom we live.-Rev. ]. r. Dur
wee, Reformed Church, New oYrk.
WHAT A CHURCH MUST STAND
FOR
The church must stand not only for
intellectual honesty. but for a Christian
spirituality@Rev. @. E Cunningham
Universalist. Kansas City, Mo.
THE LAW OF IMMORTALITY
The survival of the httest may be the
law of nature. but the survival of the
faithful is the law of Immortality
Rev. DR.. John W. Day, Unitarian. st.
Louis
PROBLEMS FOR CHURCH TO
SOLVE
The church of the future must help
solve the economic problems which now
divide men into classes.-l2eV. frederick
E Hopkins Congregationalist Chicago
REASON AND REV t5IATIOHy.
The religion of the Bible is as fun of
reason as it is of revelation. The relir-
ion of Gods word is one that appeals to
the intellect Of man.-Rev. DR.. J. T. NJ.
Johnston, Baptist, st Louis.
FAITHS SATISFYING BASIS
Only where the lighe OF revelation
shines and the teachings OF that reve~
lation are accepted Toes faith find a
satisfying basis or hope rise into assur-
ance.-Rev. DR.. Chivers, BapJisr, Brook
lyn-
THE HOME AND MOTHER.
Every mother is a queen, and the
home is her dom inion, and no ruler can
safely govern any people long that dis
regards the home and mOther.-Rev-
Frank Woolford Sneed, Presbyterian,
Pittsburg.
VALUE OF ORIGINAL AFFECTION.
We talk and sing and pray and
preach a good deal about love but
cubic inch of original affection is worth
a cord of homiletical eulogy on affec-
tiOn.-ReV- Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst,
Presbyterian, New York
THE FIGHT AGAINST UPRIGHT
EOUSNESS
We must fight selflshness with IN
selfisEness, hatred with love, covetous-
ness with generosity, falsehood with
truth, darkness with light We must
build up life on the positive side.-Rev.
Dr. PoIemas H. Swith, Methodist, Chi
cago.
PARASITE UPON THE SOCIALBO
The nan who looks upon life with
sole view to the discovery of ways and
! means by which to enrich himself. who
seeks his own gain first last and all
the time, is nothing but a parasite upon
the social bOdy.-Rev. L. A. Crandan,
! Baptist Chicago.
BEAUTY OF THE CHURCH
Not expansive dones nor gorgeous
windows nor graceful arches constitute
the beauty Of church, but God and
| only God. No temple is beautiful which
! does not express the loveliness of his
face-Rev. DR.. James Oliver Wilson,
/ Methodist New York.
HUMANITY AND THE CHURCH.
Our church must be humanitarian So
/ long as money is boarded or piled UP
/ in costly buildings called churches
4 while hunger stalks about the streets
will there be a chasm between the
church and the masses-Rev. DR..
| Broughton, Baptist, Atlanta, Ga
| OBLIGATION TO THE HOME.
While it is true that mos persons do
not go to church oftea enough. there
| are many who go to church too often.
l No man OF woman has 4 risht TO take
class in the Sunday school when i
| Sunday school class is being neglected
at home. Any social or philanthropic
I Organiza ton which makes one want to
/ get away from home life or homo du-
/ ties is a detriment. no matter what else
! it may be doing.-Rev. Charles Stelzle
/ Methodist. St. Louis.
THE STRENGTH OF HIS PEOPLE
Jesus Christ has been sneerad at as a
woman's God. Wen, why not2 The God
| of our mothers. the God of our sisters
| the God of our wives what of deroga-
! ton is there in that2 Tut be was a
/ mans God as well. He was the strength
! of his people-Rev Cyrus Townsend
Brady, Episcopalian, Philadelphia.
THE STRONGEST ARGUMENT.
When Jesus asked his accusers
(which of you convinceth me of sin?'
| he put forth the higt1-s1 argument pos
sible A man who shows manhood has
| a tendency to bring men to him, just
| as a man who does wrong viii contain
| mate those who associate with him
| Rev Cassius NJ. Roberts. Episcopalian
l Philadelphia