The Topeka state journal., 1903-09-26
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings OF
All Denominations.


Gems Cleaned from the Teachings of
ALI Denominations.
Prayer is the strongest thing in the
world. 1t is the lever which lifts the
throne of the Almighty. No one can
| hope to be faithful and not pray.-Rew
! DIR. George A. Hall, Baptist. Chicago.
OVERCOMING TEMPTATION.
Remember those who teach you have
suffered temptations. and the overcom-
1 ing of these temptations has mace them
worthy of being spiritual guioes.-Rev.
H. B. Chapman. Episcopalian. New
York.
LOYALTY AND REWARD.
Be patriotic, be loyal TO your country,
loyal to your race and loyal TO your
! selves and you will be rewarded for your
life.-Rev NJ. c. Brooks. Methodist,
HOPEFUL SIGNS.
It is a splendid and hopeful sign OF
the religious life of our day that men
! are longing again for those truths that
/ are spiritually diScerned. The material
phenomena of Christianity are NOT up
permost in human thought today-Rev.
w. l.. Dawson, Episcopalian, Brooklyn.
TO GLORIFY MANKIND.
1t is not for the church to despair OF
the race. For it Christ died, and for it
all things move divinely, and by and by
darkness, despair and desperation shall
be swallowed up in the light. love and
life which shall glorify mankind at last.
Rev. G. C. Lorimer. Baptist. New
York
A FALSE WORLD.
We live in world of fiattering hopes,
false valuations and vain imaginations.
There is SO much pretension In the
world, there is so much difference bs-
tween what seems and what is, that our
judgment of men and things often be-
comes confused.-Rev. Daniel Dorches-
ter, Methodist, Allegheny, Pa.
THE FINAL REWARD.
No man escapes opposition, detrac-
tion, calumny, hatred. persecution. who
everywhere and at all times seeks first
the kingdom of God ana his righteous
ness. But if we suffer with Christ we
shall reign with him. After the cross
the crown; after the sobbing and the
signing shall come the music of peace
and gladness-Rev. DIR. A. H. Kaylor,
Presbyterian, Pittsburg.
TRUE RELIGION.
There is no argument against our re-
ligion. The one great argument is this
saying one thing and doing another
proclaming these high truths. coming
close to this altar where Jesus lives
and loves, and then going forth to en-
gage in corrupt politics, a degraded and
sensual life, in bitterness and hatred and
fraud and deception.-Bishop Spalding
Roman Catholic, Peoria, Ill.
THE MOTHER OF JESUS.
Mary, the mother of Jesus. never un-
derstood her Child. To him she applied
the Messianic prophecies of her people
and pondered upon the whisperings IN
her heart of his coming greatness When
others turned away from him, Mary fol-
lowed; when others were far off, Mary
was by his side. Motherhood is impelled
by love, which, scorning fear, is last al
the cross and first at the tomb.-ReV
H. r. Rose, Universalist, Newark, N. j.
CHRISTIAN SANITY.
Thorough Christian sanity manifests
| itself in making the best and most Of
things. Sanity says, How easily II
could have been worse!" The best les
son of Robinson -Crusoe's lonely island
was that he was never in so bad a =
dition that he could not easily see h0A
il might have been worse. Thorough
sanity looks at the good things we have
| and rejOices in them rather than at the
things we do not have. If you wlsr
to be miserable, take a full catalogue
of all the things you do not have
YOU would be happy count your bless
, ings- DER and o'er.'@Rev. DR.. NJ. L
Curl, Methodist, st. Louis
t SAVING THE FINANCIAL BARON
ETER
. # is not how much man makes
but how much he saves. that deter
mines his prosperity. The man Wn'
: makes 81 600 900 a year, but saves noth
, ing. is poorer than the farm hand wh'
r makes only 500, but saves 81 or 50 o.
. $40. The net gain is the point Ther'
: are men so extravagant. so improVlo
emf that the Vanderbilt system coult
> not supply them with pocket change
If they were to receive the gross earn
ings of all the lines operated by tn
! PENNSYLVANIA company they would stu
! be hard up and in debt. The working
man known as Goal Oil Johnny, sud
denly enriched, found $6,000000 yea
niggardly allowance. His fortune o
$50 900 900 lasted him five years. Tn
t true financial barometer is not salary
1 but savings.-Rev. DIR. John Merritt'
Driver. Peoples Church, Chicago.
: THE ONLY PANACEA.
, If Christ had come in the clouds o
: heaven in great splendor and glory anG
, only shown himself to the wondering
world we would still be without al
answer TO this great question. But h
g did not He came in lowly guise t
I live suffering life and die shameful
: death He has told us nothing abou
= the mystery of pain save that he ha
0 brought God into it. and we read tn
: love of God in the tears of things.
< We need this Christ today. The phras
= f'back to Christ is often used not Onl,
n by man in the pulpit. but by the maj
;. in the street. Back to Christ by a
: means. but let it be to the Christ o
d Calvary. who has become the Christ o
Il experience. The one and only Danace
a for the sin and sorrow of the world i
I to be found in him, and wherever w
q have entered into the fellowship of tn
a cross the love of God becomes a beau
tiful and glorious experience, one of pc