The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-28

Gems Steamed From the Teachings OF
All Denominations.


A mans life VIII not be any higher or
deeper or nobler than the standards he
has lifted and the principles he has
idealized.-Rev. DR.. Charles Edward
Locke. Methodist, Brooklyn.
THE HUMAN AND THE DIVINE
MIND.
The human mind is like a flute, which
can play but one note at a time Gods
chords.-Rev. DR.. Frank Crane, Uni
tartan, Worcester, Mass.
THE SOULS PERIL.
The real peril of the soul Is not in the
wrath of God, but in the sorrow of God
not in hell or torment, but in a desola-
ton k the ruined columns of Tad
NOR in the desert.-Rev. Willard b.
Thorp, Congregationalist, Chicago.
VALUE OF PATIENCE.
Patience. born of faith, rfpened by en-
durance, working in calmnesS, looking
forward with hope, mellowed by sac
rihce, steadied by the touch of a di-
vine hand. will lead to the goal and
sanctify life at the last.-Rev. DR.. Pc
lemus H. Swift, Methodist, Chicago.
MANS INVINCIBLE ALLY.
Faith is the energy that moves the
human world. 1t is mans invincible
ally. Faith is not of the luxuries
of life; it is our daily bread. 1t is the
regal word of the Bible. 1t has this
royal state in the Scriptures it
occupies the throne of sight in the prae-
teal life of man.-Rev. A. B~llkoosky,
Universalist, Baltimore.
LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLISM.
The sea and mountains and nature
speak the language of Symbolism
They are not so muc water and rock
and earth spread out or piled up. IhaI
which impresses US as we stand upon
the shore or sail upon the sea IS not the
waters that are tossed in tempest or
sleep in calm, but the mighty symbol
ism Of the ocean ftself.-Rev. G. B.
V~osburgh, Baptist. Denver.
CARE OF OUR RELIGIOUS Ma
L&
Mans religious nature is the most
real and lasting theng he has; hence he
has need to guard it well. To neglect
or to abuse it is to bring irreparable
pains to give US a holy religion and
spared not his only Son that our re-
ligious nature might be satisfied. What
a mistake to neglect religion!-Rev. E.
Bell, Lutheran, Baltimore.
AN OMNIPOTENT GOD.
Man Graves for an onnipotent God
can be with him always wherever
he may be. This is one reason why the
heather multiply their idols. so they
need an idol for the family, another Tor
the market. another for the journey,
for war, etc. Their idols are
considered Omnipresent, else they
not need to do this. In Christ,
however, we have one who meets our
demands.-Rev. R. e. Williams Evan
gelist, Butte, Mont
COMFORT FOR THE AFFLICTED.
AOAAA lily ~ ~ 80 " N-AeNN S0 $1,000
to you in mercy, not in Judgment He
has taken your darlingS out Of dark
ness into light, out of danger into safe
ty, out of limitations into the Ilimita-
BILE beauty of his wide universe. Will
you not submissively yield to his call?
has given you the anoiting OF
and placed upon your head the
crown of sorrow. But one day your
starry crown will be more beautiful for
It's thorns of pain. Now all you can do
IS to trust him.. He is your Fathef---
Edwin Whittier Caswell, Method
st, New York.
A PROPER BALANCE.
We must seek to preserve a proper
in our religious thinking. Some
men have seen the danger of form and
sought to lead the Christian life
apart from it, while others have allow
ID the spirit to be entirely lost.-Rev.
w. ]. Williamson, Baptist, St.LoulS.
DOES IT PAY?
We are living in uch a materialistic
that most persons give not a little
-hought to the personal gain as to what
hand, the results of much that is
leads one to believe that many
Ire poor mathematicians; at least they
get very little lasting satisfaction 70
they expend. Action and reaction,
and effect, place m at the CEN
.er of a system of self executing re-
wards or penalties, according as he
ives, so that man is to a large degree
he architect of his own fate. and for
most of his successes or failures he
no little part in the transaction.
It is therefore only right that man
should in all his undertakings ask him
self the question, Does it paY?" II not,
hen let him change his mood of living.
example, does it pay to make a
promise without having any idea ever
It the time of keeping that promise2
Does it pay to selhShly wrong some one,
thereby successfully to uild