The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

| RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
/ All Denominations.
1t is not what a man claims that
gives him power, but what he is.-Rev.
Dr.. Richard T. Jones. Presbyterian.
Philadelphia.
GODS CHISEL.
Suffering is Gods chisel by which the
imprisoned angel within you is devel-
oped and revealed.-Rev. James NJ.
Philputt, Christian Church. St Louis.
FOLLY OF IMITATION.
| Ones strength lies in his own indi-
vfduality. A wise educator recognizes
this fact and SO seeks to preserve it.
No one can become great by imitation.
DIR. Charles Bayard Mitchell, Metho-
dist, Cleveland, o.
TRUE PATRIOTISM.
Men sometimes are insular and call
themselves patriotic, but true patriot
ism is never narrow. The greatest pa
triot is he who recognizes the tie that
binds him to brethren, savage or civil
liked. beyond the seas.-Rev. John Van
Schaick, Jr., Universalist, Washington.
SUCCESS.
Success in the eyes of the world is
failure in the sight of God For a
time the things upon which we set our
affections may satisfy, but when at the
end of our earth life we sum it all up
it will be but to say with Solomon.
"All is vanity, vanityH'-Rev. r. H.
Sawyer, Disciple, Mfssoula, Mont.
EVERLASTING SALVATION.
No condition in the future can be
imagined in which we cannot appropri-
ate Christs ability to save US every
moment and all the time. What all
agree as the great need is not a mere
occasional deliVerance, not a spasmodic
purity or piety, but an everlasting sal
vation.-Rev. Joseph Stephan, Method
list, st. Louis.
In your life scheme find room for
ideals of manhood and character as well
as ideals of temporal and professional
success. Have plan, but also have Wis
ion. Avoid the sin of narrowness.
Keep in sympathetic touch with the
great permanent interests of the race
Rev. DR.. A ]. Alexander, Presbyterian,
Cleveland, o.
THE NEED OF SACRIFICES.
The laws that undergrad society and
make a communal life possible are for
the most part a recital of the things
We are willing to give up to make COM
munal life possible Life itself as it
comes from the hands Of our Creator
is not a finished product. It Is only a
seed and if we would realize the d.
to cast that seed away from US into the
soil of our brothers life, of our neigh
boris life.-Rev. DR.. E. E Chivers, Bap7
tist, New York.
Life is utterly meaningless il spent
alone. True life is not self existence,
but co-existence. A companion should
accompany US on the path through
life. The creation was Justlhed IN IN {
forming of society. Let us believe that
there is no true living unrelated to be-
fngs like ourselves. The constitution
of life is itself the eternal call for EEL
lowship. and the good or evil of etern-
ity is according as it is with or with
out society.-Rev. Casper w Hiatt, ID.
D, Congregationalist, Cleveland, o.
SUCCESS IN LIFE.
Those who succeed in the great bat
tie of life are not ordinarily the ones
who at the outset have had everything
quite smooth and easy before them,
but it is they who are conscious OF an
inward power, are aware that tney
must meet with difficulties which at
times will seem to battle them, but
who struggle on with a brave and de-
termined spirit and at last acquire a
success we'll earned and on that &C
count more likely to be lasting
Father jackson, Catholic, Atlanta. Ga.
EDUCATION IS EFFICIENCY.
Education is not a certain amount
Of raw knowledge which you have
been able to stow away. There are
ment's conversation show they are
without an education. True education
is the awakening of the mind to see
and enjoy; it is giving it wings by
winch TO mount nlSneT, see HiOTS
clearly and enjoy more fully. And
culture is the graceful way in which
you place all these at the service of
others.-Rev. J. r. Mackay, Presby-
terrain, GIens Falls. N. Y.
CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY.
Society must be constructed from
the foundation UP. You cannot begin
with the mayor of the city and sue
cessfully work down, but you must
begin with the child in the home and,
before that, with the home itself. We
often talk about corruption in official
life. but there cannot be a permanent
condition of that kind unless there is
corruption in private life If the peo-
pie in the mass have loose ideas of
marriage and demand to be set free
whenever the whim takes them, you
will find that the law is undermined
and adjusts itself to these conditions.
The best service which teachers of
sociology and preachers can do is not
the scientific tabulation of statistics,
but a definite teaching concerning the
sacredness of the home as an institu
tion.-Rev. w. A Bartlett, Congrega-
uonalist. Chicago.