The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-05
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.

Opportunities do. not wait. The
street of BY and BY leads to the house
of Never.-Rev. DR.. Radcliffe, Pres
byterian, Washington.
THE DOOR OF DEATH.
Death launches us more fully and
consciously into the spiritual world,
as birth introduces us more fully and
consciously into the physical world
Rev. w. B. Bentley, Episcopalian, New
York.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
The man who succeeds to-day in
business, scholarship or politics sue
ceedS because he knows how, and he
knows how because he has learned
foreordained to failure.-Rev. R. A.
McF,adden, Presbyterian, Danvers,
Mass.
GRATITUDE.
No fountain of enthusiasm more
freely flowing can be opened in the
heart of man than a sense of benefits
received. The political orator who
would awaken enthusiasm for leader
knows that he can do no better than
to persuade the people that they
Taylor. Congregationalist, Brooklyn.
THE GOSPEL OF FORCE.
Any, body of men that undertakes
by force of arms to accomplish their
purpose is in a conspiracy or is a mob
in the eyes of the law and must be
government. For if one body of men
may organize, arm themselves and
threaten and shoot, SO may another
and another until civil order disap-
pears in anarchy.-Rev. David Utter,
Unitarian, Denver.
LOVE IS THE LAW.
Love is the common heritage of hui
man life. 1t belongs to human nature
to love as it does to think. 1t is part of
our constitutional endowment. 1t is
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which Christianity meets the human
soul. 1t is indeed the one thing which
binds us to the eternal God. So that in
all chimes and all ages men have known
what it is to love.-Rev. z. T. Andrews,
Methodist, New York
MILLIONAIRE GAMBLERS.
We ought to have proper perspec-
tive and proportion in our judgment
and hold the millionaire turfmen in
their gambling races and the racing as
sociations, with their systematic rob-
berry of the less well to do as equally
amenable to an indignant public opin-
ion as the smaller offenders. We know
ingly have stopped the laws of this
state to protect race gambling. These
men, whatever their wealth, ought to be
pilloried before the public and brought
great their wealth.-Rev. Richmond
Babbitt, Episcopalian, Brooklyn.
DAILY IMMORTALITY.
We have positive proof that the soul
survives the body. That body in which
you live today is not the one that you
occupied some time ago, perhaps one
year ago, certainly seven years ago.
You have in fact, cast aside body after
body as the years have come and gone,
and out of your food you have built
fresh, new bodies. only to consign them
ultimately to the same fate. And yet
you-that is. yourSelf-your soul, is still
living today, the same soul that it al
ways was, absolutely identical, the only
thing, in fact, that you have remaining
from the original outfit of your exist
ence not only, but even from that with
which you were favored a few months
ago. A number of bodies might today
be again put together out of the scat
tered elements that made up your
bodies at different times in the past.
and, placed side by side, it could thus
be physically demonstrated that your
soul has outlived the body a number of
times. When it is said that the soul is
immortal, therefore. it is simply saying
that the soul may do again what it has
already done over and over. To this
sort of thing the soul has actually be-
come accustomed.-Rev- Frederick
Campbell, Methodist, Brooklyn