The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-18
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings OF
All Denominations.

The unwise man thinks of things as
they might be; the wise man looks at
them as they are.-Rev. W. M. Dame,
Episcopalian Baltimore.
DOING GOOD.
There is a large place in the world
for the man who goes about doing
good. The man who knows the good
and does it not commits a sin against
society and imperils his own life
Rev w. H Pound, ongregationalist,
Chicago.
REQUIREMENTS OF CHRIST'S
CHURCH.
Christ's church must be the mani
festation in earthly things of Christ
himself, the complete expression of
his divinity. It must be more than
merely an ethical society, living, act
i've, -radiating the light of his godli-
ness.=Rev, Michael Reilly, Roman
Catholic, Philadelphia.
WHAT IS PLEASING TO GOD.
The price of salvation is the surren-
der of the world, and nothing short of
this will be acceptable with God. God
will not enter the heart which makes
a compromise with the world Not
the life of the recluse is demanded,
but the stunning of evil and the cult1-
walton of the good are pleasing to
Godfrey. William J. Velvick, Meth
odist, St Louis.
ERRORS OF WEALTH.
The point where material prosperity
becomes dangerous is where the soul IS
evolution of commercial problems, such
as the strife between capital and labor,
is not in either side crying for justice.
but in the introduction of the spirit
that believes that life consists not in
the abundance of things possessed.
The browning of the soul is the way OF
safety, both for the individual and for
civilization.-Rev. Sidney Strong, Con-
gregationalist, Chicago.
GUIDANCE BY THE HEART AND
REASON.
Not on reason alone doth man live,
but on his heart and his feelings also
1 have more faith in the man who is
guided by his heart than in the man
who is guided by reason. Take away
the poetry from a mans nature, take
away his sense of the beautiful and
harmonious, and he shrinks to a cold,
calculating machine. To eliminate emo
tions and feelings from humanity is
like plotting out the springtide and the
flowers from the demonstrating
more
Thanks to God must follow the line
of prayer-namely, that it must be an
lions of the world. Let US see, then,
what it is. It is first of all an adora-
ton before the shrine of perfect good
ness 1t does not make any difference,
dear friends, whether your life is one
year longer or ten, but it makes vastly
a difference as to what is put into the
one year or the ten That is a plati-
tude, That is a commonplace. But on
that line lies the reverence, the worship
before the shrine of perfect goodness
Rev. Thomas R. Slicer, Unitarian, New
York.
MIGHTY AVALANCHES FOR GOOD
Oh, the unconscious influences of
every Christians private life! Like
the snowf1akess they bank themselves
up into great drifts. Like the grains
of sand, they lift themselves into the
mighty mountains. Like the little
drops of water, they Stake the thirst
of many valleys and meadow lands.
These little influences of private life
are despised by some SO called Chris
tan workers. but in the end they re-
suit in mighty avalanches for good, in
mighty tidal waves of blessings, in
mighty east winds that dam back the
Red seas which, as impossible bar
riers, keep the children of Israel from
fleeing the Pharaoh hosts and march