The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-27
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

Did YOU and 1 ever benefit humanity
very much without a self denial, with
out a giving somewhat of ourselves IN
their behalf 2-7E2eT. Andrew Iaagernan,
CREEDS AND CONFESSIONS.
Creeds and confessions have. their
place, but When that day shall come for
the final Accounting neither creed nor
confession will save--Rev. DR.. Clam.
SOMETHIN,*sTOs Do.
The desire of the, true heart ana
thoughtful mind is, Give me somethlns
to do; give me some Fart in the worlds
work; give me a mission. Rev. sDr-
Bisbee, Universalist, Boston
EDUCATION WITHOUT RELIGION,
Experience teaches that you can have
educated villains; that education with
out sanctities of religion or restraints
of morality increases the power for evil
Rev. DR.. Dana. Presbyterian, Phiia-
delphia.
Ours Is an age of thought, and
thought means the enlargement of men.
1t has been so in all creation This earth
was not made in moment. The story
of our old planet is in it's growth.-Rev.
DR.. Prince Methodist. Carlisle, Pa.
BASIS OF CHRISTIAN LIVING
Judge not that We be not judged
should form the basis of Christian Nv
ing. The average man is too proud to
censure the faults he sees in others, and
the time spent thus could be used to
better advantage in correcting his own.
Rev. DR.. Dixon, Baptist, Boston.
SEEKING AND SEARCHING.
The spirit of Christ is a spirit of seek
ing and searching. 1t is spirit that
cannot rest until success has crowned
its efforts. ASK yourself, Is that the
suffering from a diminution of spiritual
fnterest.-Rev. Dr. Alsop, Episcopalian,
Brooklyn.
THE PRESENT DUTY.
Our duty to put on the harness was
never so great as today, that we may
plant the religion of love on the basis of
the higher philosophy of observations and
experience, the basis upon which must
rest all permanent and all future forces
of society. It is the form of religion
which harmonizes best with the advanc-
ing civilization of this country. 1t is the
true repubhcanism of Christianity, rec
ommending to all nations liberty, justice
and love-Rev. DR.. Harris, Universalist,
RELIGION ENRICHES LIFE.
Religion satisfies because it enriches
life. 1t opens the way into a new kind
of joy. 1t brings into play a new range
of activity Thus Jesus said that he
came that we might have life and that
we might have it more abundantly. He
came to widen out the circle of human
appreciation. The purpose of religion
thus considered is akin with the purpose
of all progress. It is to teach new truth,
to awaken new aspiration. to develop
new possibilities, to round out more fully
the natural life of man.-Rev. George
Hodges, Pittsburg.
NO PEACE WITHOUT CHRIST.
A life without Christ is a life without
peace. Without him it is possible to have
excitement, pleasure, gratified passions,
success, accomplished hopes But peace,
never That you cannot have until you
go to him. The Christless heart Is like
the sea that cannot rest. There is no
peace for it. But in Christ you can get
it for the asking. The chastisement of
our peace was upon him. For our sakes
he died upon the cross. so making peace
Trust him and the God of peace will fill
you with all joy and peace in believing
Then bow your wills in obedience to his
commands. and so your peace shall be
as river-Rev. r. H. Carson, Presby-
teTian Brooklyn.
THE SCHOOL OF SUFFERING.
Suffering is q great school. We learn
our best Lessons in this school of suffer-
ing. We learn. for instance. to love truth
and to know it by suffering from errors
We learn to love righteousness as we
suffer from sin. But the greatest lesson
we learn from our experience in life is the
great central lesson Of obedience. Do
YOU know that it is the hardest thing in
the world for you and me to become
obediel1t as we pass through the school
of suffering? I have Learned obedience
by the things have suffered Not only
do we learn the lesson of obedience in