The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings Of
All Denominations.


The man who can be patient and can
take all the ISLANDERS silently is the
man who has love in his heart.-Rev.
Dr. Edward Judson, Baptist, Chicago.
WHAT PRAYER IS.
Prayer is not teasing God into grant
ing something which may or may not
be best for us, but prayer is the souls
peace in the consciousness of GODS
presence. 1t is alteration and confess
sion and thanksgiving as well as petit
tion.-Rev. Edward B. Bagby, Chris
tan church, Washington.
A DAUGHTER OF RELIGION.
Hope too, is the daughter of relig-
ion. Her torch alone casts light upon
the impenetrable future Pluck all the
crowns of honor this earth can give,
it is still true, as Gray pathetcally
sings in his elegy, 1.-THE paths of glory
lead but to the grave Rev. J. B.
Remensyder, Lutheran, New York
BACK TO SIMPLE LIFE.
Luxuriousness is but the forerunner
of national excavation, corruption, de-
cadence and death. A return to a sim
pier life and faithful adherence to
the habits of industry, sobriety and
honesty are the only means of prevent
ing our strength and glory from de-
parting from us.-Rev. o. r. jerks,
Christian church, Chicago.
EFFECT OF SIN.
The life of sin is freighted with want
and misery. God will forgive the sin,
but you will be compelled to reap the
harvest. Grace will not take out any
thing you saw or heard, and you will
know some day, if not forgiven, what
God meant by the worm that never
dies or the fire that is not quenched.-
Rev w. H Williams, Evangelist, Gin
oinnati' POWER g, OF PRAYER
r God interposes when natural laws
will not save. Real, fervent, trustfuI
prayer lifts our poor humanity up into
a sweet fellowship and communion
he is able to do exceeding abund-
antly above all that we ask or think
we would know more of the power of
prayer.-Rev. DR.. John Douglass
Baptist, Nottingham, England:
WHERE FAITH BELONGS.
All confusion of thought on the
subject of faith has grown out of the
fact that it has been put at the end of
mental processes when it belongs at
the beginning of them. It's function
at the cradle of learning. 1t stands at
the dawn of thought. It's work is to
certify to the validity of our intui-
tions.-Rev. DIR. James w. Lee, Meth
| odist, st. Louis.
ATTENTION TO THE FUTURE.
Some of us think our fathers choose
for us the wrong career. but it is only
an idle waste of time to let the hands
hang down, regretting the unalterable
past. We should learn the lessons of
God, who can bring some good even
out of that. Our duty today is to do
our best and give the chief thought to
the present and the future. We must
| do our best to record something sweet
or good or noble on the page that lies
open in this glorious summer time
! Rev. DR.. J. H. Prugh, Reformed,
| Pittsburg.
A SPIRITUAL WORLD.
| No man ever followed the directions
of the Scriptures and endeavored to
approach God in the right spirit and
gave himself to the influence of right
| thought and worship without having
1 in his heart not only the evidence of
the truth, but the evidence of the fact
that there is spiritual world which
does, in some mysterious way, COM
municate with this. Some will say,
ssThat is superstition; that is imagi-
nation But do not say that Do
not state that until you know. Try it
for yourself and see how good Christ
is. how near God is.-Rev. DR.. Russell
H. Conwel1, Baptist, Philadelphia.
| VISION AND THE MAN.
| The measure of a mans vision de-
ponds upon the measure of the man
himself. This is more true in religion
than in anything else. The measure of
any Christian is the measure of his
vision. That measure constitutes all
the difference between the man who
cannot wait for the church doors to
lopen on Sunday morning, before he ar
rives, and the man who doesn't go at
lall because he fears the sermon will
be dull and long. A man goes to the
Bible and sees nothing greater and
lbetter than scientific criticism, and If
Iyou put him into the pulpit he will tell
Iyou the pulpit has gone to seed. But
the man with a vision, the earnest
seeker Gin the spirit comes to the
Bible, and he finds the loving Father,
the good Shepherd, the water of life,
the friend, comforter and guide, the
Redeemer and Sayiour-Rev. DR.. A.
Edwin Kegwin, Presbyterian, New
York.
OUR INDEPENDENCE.
We are social beings. Man is created
for society and cannot live alone. We
lare interdependent. No man is Suffi-
cient to himself The social body is
like the human body. Tt is made up OF
i mutually dependent parts. The eye
cannot say to the hand. IT have nc
need of thee" and the hand cannot
say to the foot, 81 have no need OF
thee" but the whole body, being com
pacted and fifty Joined together, by
what every joint supplieth, according
to the operation in the measure OF
every part, is a single organic thing
And in like manner the social body is
an organism of separate parts, each
. with its own functions to perform.
lcare not if you have the wealth of &
Vanderbilt or of a Rock efeiler or OF
lany other multimillionaire-o wha'
laval is all your wealth if you are alone
land have no companionship If there
. | is no hand to grasp yours nor any one
/ to administer to your wants or to com
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