The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-10
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings OF
All Denominations.

Every man should try to do good. al
though he were sure no reward from
his fellow men should follow. They
who do their duty must not expect to
Dunning. Presbyterian, Cory, Pa.
ADVANCEMENT
Books that were authorities five years
ago are set aside as obsolete. The map
may as well be rolled up. for it is now
incorrect. The aliases printed five
months ago are already inaccurate and
behind the times. The scientific puz-
things OF today. The ethical center has
been shifted. Religious emphasis has
been newly placed. knowledge is in
creasing. Ignorance is passing. The
mean anything? Can you discern tina
signs of the times? If you and ard
believers in the light. children of light.
the signs of the times in our natural
sages written in tall letters of gold
Rev. w. H. F'ishburn, Presbyterian,
Camden, N. ].
THE PRESS LIBERALIZES.
By all odds the largest part of the
liberahzing influence on religious
by the printed page. Many great news
papers in this country have lent their
influence to the broadening Of religious
thought. The same thing lis true of
many of the leading magazines. They
have been on the side of breadth ana
tolerance and freedom of inquiry.-Rev.
w. II. Eamsey, Unitarian, Louisville,
KY.
THE THEOLOGIAN'S GOD.
Too long have we dressed God up in
iron clothes, rolled his heart in marble
and sent him marching through space
as horrible monster. 1t is possible
that such God may exist in the NOR
bid imagination of a misguided theolo-
gian, but no such God ever wrote this
BibIe.-Rev. F. F. Shannon, Methodist
Harrisburg, Pa.
THE VOICE.
This 1 hold to be sure-that the aga
and the people that least think they
need the message of the holy law and
of expiation are the people and the age
that need it most; that when the trag-
edy of cynicism and covetousness is at
its strongest the voice <xill be heard:
that the king comes and the only king
dofn.-Rev. NJ. W. Stryker, Congrega>
tionalist. Brooklyn.
WHAT WE OWE THE TOILER.
Civilization is based upon labor-hu,
man, animal, mechanical. What we
call capital is at bottom only accumu-
lated labor. The day laborer lays bricE
in a wall; that is labor. He saves up a
capital. Mechanical labor, by which
most of the worlds work is now done,
is human labor invested in machinery,
and working through the same.-Rev.
7.
GODS MERCY.
If the God of heaven were to follow the
of us in our system of Judging
men and women wholly worthless because
of one or a number OF moral derelictiOns
very few morta1s would escape damnatior
or. to use milder phrase, destruction If
God had followed society's plan the
worlds history would have ended with the
flood. No star of Bethlehem would have
l.isen-nO, not even a rainbow would have
arched any sky, symbol OF eternal hope
to men.-Rev A. Washburn, Episcopalian
Newburg, n. Y.
MANLY STRENGTH.
God and the times call loudly for young
soldiers, whose work will not break them,
whose trials Will not mar them and whom
the devil can not defeat. Since Caivarv.s
tragedy none may question Providence
nor nurmur at misfortune nor misery nor
mortal trials. Yea, hardship is the nath
to glory. Knighthood came by the sfroiso
Of the sword. the prophets emerged from
the wilderness, and the keOeeiner of fhe
race descended from the cross. Manhood
is good religion character is Christliks
strength ts goodness and faith is the Vic
tory. What message will you send the
fanily?'' was asked of q good man DYING
in a strange land. my life is nv mes
sage, was the reply. He had suffere<f
many losses. trials. illness, and was NOW
being cut off in q far country, but he was
high hearted, nnconqnered. The might
Lord grant US to be and live that al the
end our life may be our satisfying arI
sufficient monument niessage-the death
less witness of manhood unc6nqtierabIs
Rev. G. Q. Wright, Chaplain United States