The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-22
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

All
Remember those who teach you have
suffered temptations, and the overcom-
ing of these temptations has made them
worthy OF being your spiritual guides
Rev. H. B. Chapman, Episcopalian,
New York.
CIVIC RIGHTEOUSNESS.
The man who supports good men in
office with recognition of their worth
is doing better for his country than
the man who spends his time denounc-
ing wickedness in high places.-Rev. J.
II. Harris, Baptist, Lewisburg, Pa.
HUMILITY IS DIVINE.
How often does the Lord lead soul
away from the crowd and the world
by placing it in the solitude Of sick
chamber, or In lowliness of spirit, in
order that he may speak to it and heal
it?-Rev. u. S. G. Bertolet, Lutheran,
Philadelphia.
CHRISTIAN UNITY.
God does not require unity of opin-
save. The spirit of union now spring
ing up among the various religious
bodies shows that the hope for a union
of Gods people on faith in Christ and
will be realized.-Rev. C. T. Hoffman,
Christian, ST. Louis.
BISHOP POTTER'S SALOON"
While / sincerely believe that Bishop
Potter's action was based upon pure
motives, 1 must not forget that the
Masters statement, yet cannot serve
God and Mammon," is as true today as
it was when it first fell from his lips.
Robe the rum shop with whatever name
you may, It cannot be made respectable.
Rev. ]. F. Stidhan, Baptist, Schuyl-
kill, Pa.
PROTECT THE CHILDREN.
The children are playing in our
streets because we have built our cit
les in such way that there is no
other place for them to play. In our
tenement districts especially the
houses stand so closely together that
there is scarcely room for light and
air to enter rooms, not to mention
courts. back yards, Fairgrounds and
small parks. The tenements drive the
boys into the street, and there they
are forbidden by the police and pre-
which kept me and my boy friends
from going to the devil.-Rev. ]. H.
Melish, Episcopalian. Brooklyn.
CHURCH AND STATE
Come what may in the history of our
republic, this 1 am sure will never be
witnessed among us, the recognition of
church school by our government, mu-
nicipal or national. The battle over
this question has been fought and won,
and there will never be retreat from the
church and state in America. We have
actualized the ideals of Milton and
Cromwell the first prophesying many
commemorative in one sovereignty
out a bishop and. a state without a
king" For this great principle which
underlies all this our fathers toiled,
and died. There can never be
here organized connection between
church and state, as one high in au-
thority has recently declared there may
be some day. God demands that the
state take care of the civil things and
let religion alone, and the church take
care of spiritual things and let civil
matters alone. God has made the two
distinct, and what God has put asun-
der let no man join together.-Rev.
Kerr Boyce Upper, Baptist, Philadel-
phia-
BIGOTRY UNCHRISTIAN.
Experience abundantly teaches that
orthodoxy and charity are not neces-
sarily synonymous. In fact, many a
harsh word has been spoken and
many cruel deed performed in the
name of him who came to purchase
for the human race the blessings of
peace. 1t might seem that our Lord,
foreseeing the evils that human pas
sions would seek to shelter and sane
tify under the cloak of religion, took
this opportunity of denouncing and
repudiating bigotry in advance. No
one who breaches a religion of hate
and discord can lay any claim to the
name of Christian.-Rev. James F.
Loughlin, Catholic, Philadelphia.
MAN NOT A MACHINE.
God does not look upon man as an
automaton or as something to be
butchered in order to try to make the
foreign policy of a nation succeed. but
as his creation-the work of his hands,
as worthy of redemption, as fit to not
only be earth's noblemen, but the in
heritors of the kingdom of God. 1t is
better to be a child of God than king.
or president, for the glory of
man fadeth like the flower of the field.
Don't be led away by any easy way of
living or any substitute for Christianity.
Remember that mans soul is immortal,
and that through Christ We may be
made partakers of the glory of Cod
Rev. Ralph G. Finley, Reformed Episco-
palian, Chicago.