The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings of
All Denominations.


Prayer Is the pathway along which
the soul meets it's Helper. 1t is the
hand that moves the hand that moves
the universe.-Rev. John Reid. Presby-
terrain, Brooklyn.
THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL
The freshest thing, the most winsome
thing, the mightiest thing, the foremost
thing in this foremost age of human
history, is the everlasting gospel.-Rev.
DIR. r S. Henson, Baptist, Boston.
THE GLORY TO COME.
Let US not be disheartened by labors,
remembering that the sufferings of this
life are not to be compared with the
glory to come and which shall be re-
vealed to us-Cardinal Gibbons, Cath
Ole. Baltimore.
THE IDEAL AND THE REAL
Men of great achievement must al
ways be men of large visions. The ideal
must ever precede the real, and the
man who would achieve great things
must not be disobedient to the heavenly
visions which are always falling
athwart his pathway.-Rev- A c.
Smither, Disciple. Los Angeles, Cal.
SCIENCE AND RELIGION.
Religions debt to science is the debt
to one who Is showing the way. Old
ways of thinking of God and of mans
relation to him were wrong, and science
Is helping to set them Alright. Doc
trines, theories, beliefs, will change, but
God is still our light and our salvation
Rev. DR.. Minot Simons, Unitarian.
Cleveland.
SCRlPIORAIJ GEOGRAPH4.
The Scriptures somehow are wrapped
up with geography. The story is ASSOC
ciated with rivers and gardens and
mountains and sky. This book has a
constant background of terrestrial real
ity. You can take a passage and go to
the very part where these things are
Clinton. N Y
TALKING THE GOSPEL
The church and the world need today
not more crergynen to expound the gos-
pei, but more men and women to talk
the gospel; talk it in the home, talk it
in the office, talk it in the shop, talk it
in the factory, talk 1t i nthe store, talk
it on the farm, talk 1t on the street, talk
it on the trains talk it everywwhere.-
Rev. T. ]. Villers, Baptist, Indianapolis.
THE MESSAGE OF THE AGE.
The message of the age is. This is
by beloved Son; hear we him" Calvary
was Gods peroration. He spoke in
tears and blood. He has paused. His
| love has passed into the eloquence that
is speeches.. He is waiting in solemn
and unspeakable grace for the word
| made flesh to be heard in every heart
and all the world aroused.-Rev. John
| z. White, Baptist, Atlanta, Ga
| THE RETIREMENT OF SOCIETY.
1t is good TO proclaim the love Of God
| and the saving power of Jesus Christ;
| it is good also and the duty of the
church to pray and to work for the bet
terment OF the social condition, for the
introduction of just and honest laws,
for the removal of every blot upon our
civilization, that life here for all wfIeth-
er in country or crowded city. may be
brighter, clearer, healthier, happier
Rev. r. S. Carson, Presbyterian Brook
Ign.
SORROWS OF MAMMoNIsM.
Greed Of gold, Unsuitable desire for
| riches, an overpowering spirit of Mann
monisn, causes more sorrow, suffering
and discomfort than all the combined
evils to which humanity is subjected.
The demon selhshness is responsible
| of the sweatshop and all Its attendant
suffering; for the saloon, that deadly
octopus that is strangling the very life
of our young manhood; for the gam
bling mania. which. like a fever. Is
raging in our nations blood. Some
thing for nothing or as near nothing
! as possible-that is the animating pur-
pose of selfish desire.-Rev. T. r.
Starr, Baptist, New York
MORAL LIBERTY OF THOUGHT
Moral liberty Of thought and desire
means that man may think as much as
rights-that is to say, all rights-for
there is no real right that is not his
whomsoever or against whomsoever done.
is such simply because it is an act In
furious to God, violation of his rights.
But it may be asked, What evil can
there be in a mere thought or how can
me en by Ri, sinps desire DC an injury to
where the real evil or sin is. The thought
Is data ne TO to the DEED, From the abund:
All evil deeds are but the EXPRESSION and
execution OF the plans Deliberately
thought over. drawn and determined
IS a human act and, If an unlawful act.
is Just as bad and punishable in many
cases as II it was expressed in word or
action, for the formal moraIity-that is.
the right or wrong of an Acknowledgements
on the thought that originated, eneour-
aged and executed it. IF thy eye be
single thy whole body shall be light
some, and If thy eye be evil thy whole
body shall be darkness. ss-Bishop Law
renee seanIan, Catholic. Salt Lake City.