The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings OF
an Denominations.
Christ came into the world not to tell
us what is right, but to give to our
Frank Crane, Unitarian, Worcester,
Mass.
TRIBUTE TO NEWSPAPERS.
The newspaper is the sentinel on the
outpost of the camp. always watching,
never sIumbering. 1t acts as the safe
to watch that sentinel and see that it
does not sleep at the post.-Rev. DR..
! John Clarence Lee, Universalists Phtla-
delphia.
SACRAMENTAL POINT OF VIEW.
All things about us. all phenomena,
even capital and labor and its conten-
tions, can be considered from the sac
ramental point of view and spiritual
lessons drawn from them.-Rev. 7. F.
Seymour, Episcopalian, Peoria, Ill.
OPTIMISM IN RELIGION.
The spirit Of optimism is softening
the asperities of religion, civilizing the
human idea and supporting God, rob-
bling the grave of its terrors, relieving
life of many of its burdens and teach
ing all to see good in everything.
World, Kansas City, No.
THE VALUE OF OBEDIENCE.
The parent who does not compel his
child to respect and obey him commits
sin in the sight of God and must
suffer the consequences. The child that
is not taught the lesson Of obedience to
his parents viii become a nuisance in
society and a curse to the world.-Rev.
A. r. Holderby. Methodist, Atlanta, Ga.
AMERICA AND LIBERTY.
When labor is free and when capital
is free, when combinations on either
side are put down by an aroused pub
lie opinion and equality of rights for all
men is established in the social and in
dustrial realm, then, and not till then,
shall liberty in America attain its per-
feet development.-Rev. DR.. w. w.
Boyd, Baptist, St. Louis.
VALUE OF A DEVOTED FRIEND
A poor man may be said to be rich
in the midst OF his poverty SO long as
he enjoys the interior sunshine of a de-
voted friend. The wealthiest Of men
on the contrary, is poor and miserable
if he has no friend whom he can grasp
by the hand and to whom he can dis
close the secrets of his heart.-Cardinal
James Gibbons, Roman Catholic, Bal
timore.
SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH.
Church organizations are necessity
for the maintenance of worship and the
PRONUNCIATION of religious teaching, but
a church organization should never be
used to bring any pressure to bear d.
rectly or indirectly upon any man to
hinder him in his honest search for
truth or in his honest expression of
what he believes to be the truth.-Rev.
6. A. Kratzer, Universalist, Fitchburg.
Mass.
SOCIALISM AND MIsERS.
While the socialism which would
make all men exactly alike as to the
possession OF wealth IS wrong, little
socialism which would hang every
but upside down by the feet, so that
money might run out of him for the
poor and the unchurched and the
heather, would be a good thing.-Rev.
Dr. Charles Herald, Congregational
list, Brooklyn.
MANS SUPREME NEED.
The supreme need Of mankind is con-
version to religion, to the spiritual point
of view, to an appreciation of what is
most worthy of the name religion as a
human asset-a conversion to the spir-
itual point of view, an estimate of re-
ligion not apart from practical life, but
as a force in forming and sublimating
ii all, the innate force. If it is not
denied or ignored, making for nobility
and for the noblest way of doing all
things.-Rabbf Charles F'1eischer, He
brew, Boston.
THE BIBLE AS A CHARTER OF
FREEDOM.
The present applicability of the moral
principles of the Bible to human life
verifies its divine authorship. Biblical
morality has been placed under ire
mendous strain but has been sufficient
to bear it. Individuals following its di-
vine directions have become ilustrious
saints Nations. SO far as they have
accepted the Bible, have found 1T a
safe charter of freedom, a sure guide
to success. The missionary has proved
OF a savage state into civilization. The
Bible is the source of the purest, sim
pIest strongest morality the world has
ever seen.-ReV. DR. Marcus A. Brown
son, Presbyterian. Philadelphia
THE URGENT LIFE.
Urgent, our Lord tells US. was his life.
He is the example OF all true living.
These lives of ours, shortened nov ~
the measure of another year, should be
urgent also. There ought to be in every
life the urgency of the feeling of being
sent. This was in the life of Jesus. i
me-" There ought to be in every life that
urgency of a sense of obligation i must
work the WORKS of MIN that sent me,
said Jesus How his gency of obliga- |
frittering Of our swiftly passing and only |
life in this worth There ought to he in /
every life the urgency of the need OF in |
slant seizure of opportunity: There was
the works of him that sent me while it IS |
does not wait. seize her by the fore /
lock- said Thomas Carlyle: "she has no
bac OK hair" There ought to be in every |
life the recognition of the urgent fact OF |
the end There was in the great life. /
THE night cometh in which no man can
work. said Jesus. But the ending night
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