The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-19
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings of
All DETERMINATIONS.

Gems Cleaned from the Teachings of
All Denominations.
True happiness is found only in losing
self in service for others, and man
noblest act is that of self sacrifice.-l
Rev. Columbus Polk Goodson, Presby-
terrain, st. Louis.
THE HIGHEST POINT.
The highest point in the Christian re-
ligion is a personal union of our lives
with Jesus Christ in the most intimate
relation. God first loves US, and we
must show our love for him.-Bishop
Henry z. Satterlee, Episcopalian,W w ash
ington.
SOLUTION OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS.
When love, which is the fulfillment
of the law of Christ, is made the rule
of business strikes will be no more.
Then not only will the rich sympathize
with the poor, but the poor will SYM
pathize with the rich.-Rev. Madison c.
Peters, Baptist, Philadelphia.
TOUCHING CURRENT OF GODS
POWER.
If a man would be truly strong he
must reach up until he touches the cur
rent of Gods power. is thrilled and
possessed with might by the Spirit in
the inner man. and then transmits it
to the common, everyday world in
which he lives. He is the man who in
the strength of the risen Lord uses his
physical powers and intellectual culture
fallen world.-Rev. J. H. Hackenberg,
Methodist, Philadelphia
THE NEED OF CHRISTIANITY.
We think we love holiness when
sometimes we love the holy place. We
say we love Christ when often we only
love his church. We cherish the name
of Christian and do not the things of
the Christ. More than an overlooking
treasury we need an overlooking heart
We need more lives rather than more
a WI Will
Christ, live Christ, teach Christ, preach
Christ, in every walk of nfe.-Rev.
Philip w. Yarrow, Congregationalist.
ST. Louis.
KNOWING ONES HEART.
Wise is the man who prays to thor
oughly know his heart. AS it is the
center of our moral being. it Is essen
tial that we know the heart to its
imperfection throughout the entire life
and service The very nature of evil
itself to increase makes 1t a safeguard
against backslidtng. The wisdom OF
that 1t is an acknowledgment of our
insufficienoy to search the depths of
our natures,-Rev. Josephus Stephen,
Methodist, St. Louis.
TRAINING THE TONGUE Alright.
Let strive to use Alright the gift
of speech SO that in the resurrection
amid the perfections of the future
state. our tongues may be deemed
worthy to be everlastingly employed in
giving glory, honor. praise and thanks
giving to him who sits upon the
throne, and let our prayer be the words
of the psalInist. "Set a watch. o Lord,
before my mouth and a door around
my lips" forever bearing in mind that
"a Deaceable tongue is a tree of life
but that which is immoderate shall
crush the spirit Rev. Dr. John ].
Dolan, Episcopalian, Brooklyn.
TEAIPLT OF THE HOLY GHOST.
Know ye not that your body is a
great cathedral, more momentous in its
functions than that called st. John the
Divine. which the Episcopal church is
erecting in New York city today?
Know We not that your body is the
place where God looks through the
window Of the eye and speaks through
the trumpet of the throat and feels
with the appendages of the fingers?
Be careful of that frame of bone and
muscle and sinew-that physical frame
OF yours, filled with arteriaI canals
through which the blood courses.
know We not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost ?''-Rey. DR..
Frank De Witt Talmage, Presbyterian,
Chicago.
REAPING AS WE SOW.
IN the realm Of soul life, as in every
otner, we reap as we have sown and
that in harmony with the two great
laws of the harvest. If we SOW love to
coo and man the heart will be enlarg-
ed. If we sow scholarly habits we will
cap SSAO1c1 sup. IL we SOW truth we
shall reap truthfulness. If we sow
choice of spiritual things we shall reap
spiritually. If we SOW communion with
the Divine we shall reap heavenly
mindedness. Sow money and reap
money and nothing more. Sow worldly
companions and reap worldly minded
ness. Sow to the questionable and reap
a divided mind. Sow impurity and reap
spiritual blindness. Sow bad habits and
reap depraved character.-Rev. Polemus
H. Swift, Methodist, Chicago.
THE FULL GROWN MAN.
characteristics of a full grown man
are, first, completeness. We content
ourselves with having a few virtues
One may be, for example, strictly moral
and truthful, but lacks sweetness. 10y
atty to the truth is another character
istic. This also demands that we de-
fend the truth. At Gettysburg, Lacy
Blanchard, the drummer boy who car
ried the flag forward until he fell NOR
tally wounded, played the man. The
first days battle of Gettysburg was
lost because corps commander played
the boy and thought more of his rank
than of his country. We need public
men who are large and broad enough
to advocate unpopular truths. Obedi-
enee is another of the characteristics,
and love is also one of the elements.
Christ was loyal subject, and he was
the incarnation of love.-Rev. DR.. G. H
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