The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

A cup of life's elixir from the spring
of pleasure will often help more to de-
velop lives godward than all the pray
ers of dozens of Christians.-Rev. G. ].
Harris, Universalist. Atlanta, Ga
THE JOY OF LIVING.
AS the instinct of self preservation
is the strongest instinct, SO the joy of
simply living is the keenest JOY. And
the measure of that joy is the measure
of the life wherein it rejoices.-Rabbi
Leon Harrison. St. Louis.
SUBJECTIVE DEVELOPMENT.
Every man must take heed to his
subjective development. In each ones
life there are two distinct powers
the subjective and the objective, the
outer and the inner. Every one is the
architect of his own life.-Rev. DIR.
Adams. Baptist, Des Moines, Ia.
GREAT WORK.
All truly patriotic work, all educa-
tional and charitable work, all human
itarian and religious work, is great In
SO far as they who do 1t give them
selves to 1t, put all there is of them
into ft.-Rev. DR.. Charles Carroll AL
bertson, Presbyterian, Rochester. N. Y.
JUDGMENT AND ETERNITY.
Life is no fiction: neither is the
Judgment a fiction. We shall all be
judged for what we were and for what
we are in body and spirit. Heaven is
no dead level, but the eternities for us
depend upon what we are in this
world in body and soul.-Rev. DR.. J.
T. NJ. Johnston, Baptist. ST. Louis.
WHAT FAITH DOES.
Faith gives us a better knowledge of
ourselves. Our faith tells US who we
are and what we are and whence we
came and whittier we are going. 1t re-
lieves US from the errors of heathen-
ism and makes the light to shine amid
the darkness of the world.-Cardinal
Gibbons, Catholic, New York.
ART ABOVE SCIENCE.
Art is nobler than science. Animals
can know; bees, beavers and birds
science
himself. we call it revelation and
nature. When man expresses himself
we call it art. Nature is the utterance
of God and art is the utterance of
man.-Rev. N. NJ Waters, Congrega-
tionaliSt, Brooklyn.
THE CHRISTIAN AND POLITICS.
You can go into politics and be just
as pure hearted, as clean handed and
as good a Christian as you can be in
the coal business or in country store,
selling mackerel and molasses. True,
If you go into politics, men will abuse
you and throw mud at you, but that
won't hurt.-Rev. r. J. Burdette, Bap-
CHOICE OF FRIENDS.
Young people are judged by their
chums. Society swiftly concludes that
they who associate with the impure
are themselves unclean. AS you have
felt virtue go out of you in the society
of evil people, SO have you felt virtue
entering your Utmost soul when as
Rev. DR.. Charles Bayard Miller.
Methodist, Cleveland, o.
MEANING OF WORLDS ADVANCE.
The world is advancing with increas-
ing acceleration on every hand, The
nations are drawing together in the
great march of progress either to a
unity that means combined effort or to
a condition that means an absorption
Of the weaker and backward by the
stronger and forward. It is impossible
to resist the tendency. The whole HUI
man race is like a great procession
nearer every day.-Rev.W William White
Wilson, Episcopalian, Chicago.
COMFORT FOR THE DISCOURAGED
The world is, after all, only a big
family. And every family has its trou-
bles. There are times when the head
of the family gets gloomy a0d wonders
If there is any hope for better days. In
his heart he knows there is, and he us
ually finds it by getting old fashioned
fashioned too fast, for here is a great
truth that, in spite of all mystery and
perplexity, comforts all sorrow, lifts US
out of discouraging doubt, cures pes
simism and warns every despiser of the
good-''Nevertheless the foundation of
God standeth sure."-Rev. Frederick E.
Hopkins, Congregationalist, Chicago.
THE HIGHER LIFE NEEDED
Men often see but half the truth and
are prone to think that in order to be
spiritual we must be ascetic. No so
with God. He provides blessings for the
body that he may bless the soul. To
to educate into the knowledge of a life
above, the bread of life, he promised
every earthly food as the immediate
stimulus to faithfulnesS. A land of
milk and honey was to be theirs: a
land with stones of iron and hills of
grass; a land of springs and fountains;
a land of clusters and fruits; a land not
to be watered as Egypt was, but with
dri nj
But still, recognizing all this, we ask
ourselves what is the Masters meaning:
Man shall not live by bread alone" 1t
is so plain that just an emphasis can
express it: MAN shall not live by bread
alone" Man shall not live without
bread. But, take care! Neither shall
man live by bread alone. The plain in
timation is that men are prone to be
content with and absorbed in the lower
life. They are only too willing to live
by bread alone.-Rev. Sylvester T. SEQ
vel, Presbyterian. Pittsburg.
CONSCIENCE AND RELIGION.
Every man possesses a conscience,
and you will hear many declare that
they can be just as good, quite as
moral as a Christian through the
power of that conscience. But what is
many cases it is a slave instead of a
master. The power of passion browns
its voice and weakens it by every de-
literate sin. A man believing in the
existence OF no n1gher auIlorlly Will
drift upon the current of his animal
nature, for those tendencies which
are strongest will eventually enslave
him. No, without a living faith in
God or a personal union with him the
conscience loses it's power to govern
ard guide, but religion clothes it with
exceeding strength by revealing to
man the source of those magnificent
moral attributes with which he is en-
bowed, thus giving to that still small
voice" within the soul an infinite
worth.-Rev. Henry Knott. Episco-