The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-11
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings of
All Denominations.

Make it your habit to search for the
bright side both in others and in cir
cumstances, so you shall have a heart
of cheer, and "a cheerful heart seeth
cheerful things. Rev. DR.. Wayland
Hoyt, Baptist, Philadelphia.
HAPPINESS.
Happiness is not in things. 1t is not
without, but within u.s. It can be at
tanned by any one and should be gain
ed If he will only live the simple or, as
I prefer to call it, the genuine life
Rabbi Alexander J. Lyons, Brooklyn.
MOTIVES.
There are four distinct motives that
are competing for supremacy among
ency; the second is honor; the third is
sheer blank, unreHeved duty; the
fourth is the love of God.-Rev. L. NJ.
Clarke, Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
A STAR OF HOPE.
The uncertainty of the future is the
star of hope in human life. Who can
covet the religious experience Of him
who stands still at the summit, simply
waiting, but not advancing because
progress is impossible Rev. I. r. Rus
sell, Methodist, New York
CHURCH UNION.
The first step in church union is for
all our churches to be so filled with
fullness of the divine life that all petty
distinctions may be swept away and
the reign of the Spirit may be supreme
in every life,-Rev. Frank Fox, Congre-
gationalist, Kansas City. Kan.
LIES TEST
Life may always be tested by the
principle. When a man dies we sum
up his life in one work He may have
done many good deeds, but the final
reckoning is made from the motives
that prompted them.-Right Rev. Will
liam Boyd Carpenter Bishop Of Ripon,
England, Episcopalian-
MUD BOMBARDING.
You can go into the hottest political
campaign that ever blazed and wear
while the fellow who handles mud bonn
bards you with the ammunition of the
ditch, and at the end of the race you
will be cleaner than when you went in.
Rev. r. ]. Burdette, Baptist, Los
Angeles.
ETERNAL FOUNDATIONS.
Here are the three great principles
which Christianity gives as the eternal
foundations upon which you shall build
I'D your life and character: Make love
the supreme law, hold truth to be the
supreme power; take holiness as the
supreme idea. Such is the teaching OF
the one who said, Heaven and earth
shall pass away. but my words shall
not pass away.''-Rev. Percy Trafford
Olton, Episcopalian, Greene, N. 7.
A LIBERAL CHURCH.
This is what the liberal church Of to-
day what the liberal communions, stand
glad tidinSS, ana not sSau tlulhBss
glad tidings, the absolute and real coming
Of the Kingdom of God. This is their par
amount qffice T. is i9 Prastee in them og9
from other communions-that is to say,
the first work OF a liberal church in any
community is to bring that religion up to
the standard of the kingdom of God. And
a liberal church has no right to be, there
is no sort of use in establishing it, unless
in the very 'shardpan" of its foundation
there is the determination of those VINO
found 1t that it shall level up the place
in which it is and bring 1t nearer to that
Standard of the kingdom of God.-Rev.
DIR. Edward Everett Hale, Unitarian Bos-
THE WORLDS NEED OF MORALS
What the world needs is a moral awak- |
ening-mOral resolution. not more rehg- |
ion; moral perception, not religious frenzy .
and it needs it now as it never needed II I
before There never was a time in the 4,
history of mankind when the tide of in
teIlect rolled SO high, when the cnannels
and agents of commerce, manufacture, |
trade and industry were so occupied and
employed. There never was a time when |
the mind of the young was so eager ana
time when the instruments for the dis |
semination of truth were so many and |
could be so cheaply employed. There |
never was a time when printing was SO
could be carried forward with so little ex-
pensa. And there never. was a time when /
the moral natures of men needed to be ap- /
pealed to as they need to be appealed TO i
now There never was a time when men /
needed religion less and morals more
Rev Dr. J. z. Roberts, Church of This !
World, Kansas City. Mo
Aren't YOU ashamed to ask for mon
ey?'- demanded the social reformer- 7
was once but that experience cured me of |
my tinidity'' replied the weary Wayfarer.
I got six months for taking it without