The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings Of
All Denominations.

Christ came to redeem mankind and
teach the world the true lesson of hui
man dignlty.-Rev- DR.. Conaty, Catho-
lie, Washington.
CHRIST IN THE DAILY LIFE.
All that is divinest and most Christ
like can be wrought, must be wrought,
out IN this world, as we hammer and
saw, paint and sing.-Rev. J. c. Adams,
universalist, Hartford. Conn.
CITY OF ETERNAL. HAPPINESS.
Through God is the way to the city
OF eternal happiness. Man cannot argue
his way into the Kingdom of God, but
must believe his way into heaven.-Rev.
j. F. Blair, Baptist Brooklyn.
SUMMING UP OF HUMAN LIFE.
Christ is the summing up of human
life. He is the climax of all develop
ment and progress. Beyond him we
cannot see-nO, beyond him we cannot
think-Rev. DR.. Clarke, Presbyterian,
ACCESSIBILITY OF CHRIST.
Christ is as accessible as the air He
sets free and FORCES no letters. He heals
and brings no hurt. There are no
heights above which he does not hang
the ideals of his perfect personality
Rev DR.. West, Congrega tionalist, WI
mona. MINI.
THE GOODNESS OF MANS HEART.
That there is still so much breadth
and 50 much sympathy in the busy,
thriving world is proof of the essential
goodness of mans heart. It gilds the
edges of selfshness and egotism.-Rev.
Or. John White Chadwick. Unitarian.
Brooklyn.
COB TRIES HIS CHILDREN.
God tries his children. He tried his
Son, whose temptation was intended
to be of great help to every believer II
selves to be children of God may wan
der into forbidden paths, but they will
return--Rev- Dr. William ]. Holtz-
claw, Baptist, Atlanta. Ga.
SOURCE OF GREATEST BLESSING
The greatest blessings we now pos
sess, the sanctity of our homes. our
personal security and freedom and the
right to make the most of ourselves
have been secured to US as the result OF
mat WOrld-lOng struggle for religious
liberty which gives every man the right
to worship God in his own way-Rev
j. G. Wilson, Congregationalist. Brook
THE DEEP BELOW THE DEEP"
The faith of our deeper need is that
faith which means steadying vision of
the divine unseen and the divine eter-
nal; profound consciousness from mo-
ment TO moment of what the poet has
called the deep below the deem:
nobler conviction within US that the
real value Of things is a spiritual value
-ReV Quincy Ewing, Episcopal. Greer
vile. Miss.
LIGHT THAT BRINGS JOY.
Whatever IS lovely and of good re-
port, having virtue and praise finds its
home and friends in the church anu
there organizes itself for Derpetuation
and propagation. Like a shaft of light
that bursts the bars of night satisfy
ing hope and bringing joy, spread the
sweet influences of that company Gales
the elect of Godfrey. Alfred Franklin
Smith. Methodist. 81. Louis.
PURPOSE OF THE CHTTRCH
Every church should be animated by
the one motive and have but the one
great purpose, and that is the glory Of
COD II this be not its high purpose,
then God has no further use for it. It
should go out Of business. God has no
use for the church that is lacking in q
nigh and holy purpose any more than
ne mas Tor the individual church menu
ber--Rev. DR.. A. r. Holderby. Presbv-
terrain, Atlanta Ca
CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART
Ihefe Is no possible way of getting
INTO the kingdom of God, here or here
after, save by the laws of the kingdom
of God. and those laws are clean hands
and pure heart. And clean hands
mean honesty, uprightness, integrity
everywhere. And a pure heart means
a heart that has the life and the love
or Jesus Christ as its love and the
work of Jesus Christ as its work.
Rev j. Stamey Durkee, Baptist. Boston |
THE DIVINITY OF THE BIBLE
The God of the Bible is omnipotent.
the God of the Bible Is omnipresents
the God of the Bible is universal in the
Of his love And the Christ OF the BIZ /
bic is Christ not limited to certain
era in history not limited to the Chris
tan church and to Palestine. He is
not merely temporal Christ. but an
eternal Christ He is great. sublime
universal. cosmic. the light that light
eth every man that cometh into the I
world Rev. joseph A. NIilburn, Con-
gregationalist, Chicago.
THE BIBLE STILL SUPREME.
he Of
a smaller place today and has not add T
ed one fact concerning the origin of +
life or man. Higher criticism has F
had its commissions and has helped the +
publishers of many books and increas-
I'd the study Of the Bible Meantime /
what Of the Bible? There has not been
taken from it one -5ot or title" It /
stands more supreme at this hour than /
aver before.-Rev. DR.. w A. Bartlett. /
-ongrega tionalist, Chicago.