The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-07
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings O
All Denominations.
The grandest opportunities Of Chris
H.. ror..i,o aornand the cnr1arIafa and

The grandest opportunities Of Chris
tian service demand the complete and
voluntary surrender of our whole lives
to Jesus Christ.-Rev. DIR. Frank De
Witt TaImage, Presby terian. Chicago.
THE SPIRIT OF FORGIVENESS
The nearer our lives approach to
Christ the nearer we come 10 perfec-
ton. Jesus Christ both by Dreeept and
example endeavored to instiu III us the
spirit Of forgiveness A. Z. Dixon,
Baptist, Boston.
THE DEEPEST REALITY.
1t is a matter of the greatest import
-ance that every one should begin
Christian life, but matter of serious
concern that it should begin in the deep
est reality--Rev. DR.. William ]. Eoltz-
claw, Baptist. Atlanta Ga.
OPPORTUNITIES OF LIFE.
The devil would steal away your LIES
opportunities as a Christian by simply
having you put off becoming a Christian
just now. He is stealing away your
life-yourself he is stealing away--ReV.
n. H. Lee, Methodist, Denver.
MOST PERNICIOUS INFLUENCE.
A bad man can do an immense amount
of harm by simply doing bad things
A bad man. with bad motives, doing
what seems to be good, is the most per
nieious and degrading influence that I
know of.-Rev. r. L. Paddock. Episco-
palian, New York.
NEED OF OUR TIME.
The need of our time is independent
co-opera ton in our church work as il
lustrated by the Christian Endeavor
movement the interdenominationali
of which movement says, Let sectS
live, but let sectarianism die" Let US
have a healthy criticism, but above all
else let Us have an enthusiastic conse-
Grafton which will cement in spirit the
whole church.-Rev. G. J. Hall, Denver.
RIGHT TO POSSESSIONS.
The use and not the amount of our
possessions is the important thing. It
is by using what we have that we earn
a right to have more, and it all should
be employed to gain that wealth of
character which is the end for which
all that we have is given In love, in
unSelhshneSs, in sympathy, in charity
in tolerance, in these things should the
soul OF man grow rich by putting into
use the ability and time and advan
tages which have come to him by in
heritance or by effect.=Rev. Percy OIL
ton, EpiscOpalian. Brooklyn.
THE BREADTH OF RELIGION.
Religion means more than a hobby
1t is not a social reform alone. and vet
it includes all reforms. Neither a pro-
hibitiOnist nor an equal suffragist nor
a preacher of this or that single idea
comes up to the great broad freedom
ter announces. The bubbles and non
essentials, the frills. furbelows and
phylacteries are reIegated to their
proper place in the presence of the
as the Master bids, he can grasp every
hand offered in the same love. Hera
sizes disappear and old discussions van
ish before this wondrous power of reli-
gion that is broad enough to take in
the whole man.-Rev. DR.. Charles W
Byrd Methodist, Chicago
SPIRIT OF THE GOSPEL.
The New Testament in its pre-
sentation Of the teaching of Christ is char
ecterized by nothing so clearly and alb
solutely as these qualities which we IN
our day call the scientific spirit Toler-
ance. readiness TO give full value to act
ual truth, steadiness to the verfiable and
the real. adaptation to increasing knowl-
edge and. most of all comp1 eteness Of IN
Outstanding of man everywhere are the
visible elements Of the method of Jesus
Christ. There is today no saner or mora
scientific or human Interpretation of life
and conduct than that Of Jesus. and vet
it is centuries old. There is no finer in
sight into the moods of the heart than
that which flows from the mind of Christ
and yet It vas old before psychology was
dreamed of. There is no theory Of social
life that is more inclusive or lust than
that of Jesus. and vet it was formulated
before there was in any proper sense a
social consciousness The spirit of Christ's
teaching IS in the fullest sense the scien-
tific spirit. But. in contrast with much
that IS called the scientific attitude il
keeps to its serene Interpretation Of those
basal clements of human life and char
acter which are not subject to variation,
but are always expressive of the life
problems Of the WOrld--Rev- DR.. A. A.
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