The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-08
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings Of
All Denominations.

| hEL1U1OOO lIlVOUh1s
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings OF
All Denominations.
God is the God of the beautiful. God
is pleased infinitely above his creatures
with whatever is beautiful.-Rev. DR..
W. W. Landrum, Baptist, Atlanta, Ga.
DIVINE ENERGY.
The Holy Spirit is but another name
for the divine energy. 1t is described
Rev. D. A. Goodsell, Methodist, South
| Norwalk, Conn.
Our hopes and salvation are not at
Washington, but in God, for 1t Is not by
might nor by power, but by thy spirit
saith the Lord.-Rev. r. L Stinson,
Methodist, Atlanta. Ga.
/ LOVE AND DUTY.
Duty can make life just and upright
and strong, but in addition to all these
| love makes it holy and beautiful and
most divinely attractive.-Rev. William
/ #. Manning, Episcopalian, New York.
! INFLUENCE TO CHRISTIANITY.
Christianity is the great influence in
making the world one Its representa-
tives are in every land: its missionaries
are touching the nations at every point.
Rev. w. S. Gilbert, Presbyterian, Port
land, Ore.
THE FIVE TALENTS.
In the New Testament parable II is
Il
good use of them. The one talent man
burfes his talent in the ground In &C
tual life it is quite as often the one
talent man who is theagood economist
Rev. ]. w. Chadwick, Unitarian, Brook
Ign. -,r,e,
Mercy is even a stronger characters
tic of God and man than forgiveness
Mercy seeks after the onending one pc
fore he is forgiven. forgiveness IS
/ rnr Mercy
ing her gracious work before paroon u
sought after.-Rev. Henry Garoner'
Presbyterian, st. Louis
THE CONSERVATIVE SPIRIT.
A conservative spirit is ever 10 pc
condemned but there are wise con-
servatisn and a foolish conservatism.
One would preserve things for their
own intrinsic worth and consider the
good of all, the other based on one
own feelings and Hkings and conse-
ouently seifsh.-Bishop c. c. Grafton.
Episcopalian, Fond du Lac. Wis
GENIUS AND TRUTH.
| No man is wise enough to proclaim
the exact truth Of Christianity In 1act,
It is not necessary to possess great
mentality to be a Christian 1t Is not
necessary to be a genius in paint or
poetry. One need not be a Milton or
a Homer to apprehend the wondrouA
truths of the Christian faith.-Rev. S.
p. Cadman, Congregationalist, Brook
I'm.
VALUE OF PERSONAL WORK.
In the immense power in units Sreat
movements begin and are carried on by
this power. 1t is not necessary to be
a star of the first magnitude to shine
for God. II only each one will stand
in his place and let the light shine down
upon others Christ will not fail to pun
his own true value upon such a life
Rev. Dean r. Leland, Presbyterian, St
Louis.
THE DIVINE IMMANENCY.
CARLYLE in one of his bursts of mel
ancholy, speaking of deity as he con-
ceived it. said, He has done nothing.
What great mistake! God has done
something. He gave his only begotten
Son that whatsoever believed in him
shall not perish, but have everlasting
or away back there in time. Gcd is
everywhere and in everything. We
must put away the terrible God of our
childhood and the faraway God of our
youth taught years for the everywhere
present God of nature and the Bible
Gods word teaches the divine imma-
nency.-Rev. DR.. Amos Johnson, Meth
odist. Philadelphia.
BIDS US LOOK FORWARD.
One of the blessed characteristics of
the Christian religion as compared with
others is that 1t bids us look forward
instead of backward. It matters little
to US how good or bad people used to
be. The question is, Are they better
promises a bright tomorrow? When we
take up the Christian Bible we find the
whole pull of the book is upward. When
a man tells what he has done he begins
to wither. Growing men and institu-
lions like a church cannot thrive on has
beens. This is the practical value of the
| doctrine of the second coming of Christ
Rev. Frederick E. Hopkins, Congre-
gationalist Chicago.
THE VICTORIES OF FAITH.
J No conquests are equal tokthe victo-
, ries of faith. That quality within a
! man which leads him to believe that he
is able to overcome makes him invinci-
BILE. He sets his face persistently to the
foe, assured that those who are for him
him. His eye is open to see the I'M
seen, his heart is sensitive to the mys-
ferrous powers which whisper assur-
ances to the soul. His faith is to him
an evidence more sure than the whis-
perings of human voices. If it be In
conflict with the world of sense and
form he finds that his unfaltering as
surance will bring every antagonistiC
, force to serve him. Better than all ma
I terial conquests is the victory of the
= heart which drives away the foes
] which infest the soul The world with
/ in is the greatest world, and to rescue
1t from the thraldom of sin and weak
: ness and from the power of evil is t6
( gain life and salvation. Nothing car
overcome sin but faith in goodness
! Rev. Alfred F. Smith, Methodist, st
! Louis
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