The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-02
RETdGIoUs THoUGHr.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

All Denominations.
Our bIessedness flows from what We
give to God, not from what we take
from him.-Rev. DR.. Frank Crane, Con-
gregationalist. Worcester, Mass.
REPENTANCE.
When a man stops blaming conditions
and takes to himself the responsibility
for what he is and what he has done he
has obeyed the first word Of Christ
''repent."-Rev. Howard Melish. Episco-
palian, Brooklyn
MEASURES OF SUCCESS.
The success of man may be ascer-
tanned from the height of things he as
pires to be, but his failure must be
measured by the distance between what
he might have been and what he be-
came.-Rev. Louis F. w. Lesemann,
Methodist. Chicago
NEED Or CHARITY.
If this generation would claim the
great promise of the book of books it
would find a measure Of happiness the
world has never experienced. I fear
1t is too selfish to believe 1T is better
to give than to receive Rev DR.. Sim
mons. Baptist. Peoria, III.
SEIZE THE SUNLIGHT HOURS.
If you lose the morning you lose the
best part Of the twenty-four hours
Good arguments have been used for
using the midnight lamp. but those
who use it are helping to burn out their
existence. You must seize and save the
sunlight hours.-Rev. T. L. Cuyler, Pres
byterian, Brooklyn.
SOULS CRY FOR GOD.
Religion is the souls cry for God
and his unfailing answer. If man
needed any further proof of the ex-
istence of God than that followed by
his own being he finds that proof
abundantly in the souls unceasing
search after its Creator.-F Rev. Everett
Dean Ellenwood, Universe list, Atlanta,
Georgia -
SALVATION
Salvation is fullness of life. FuIlness
of life is salvation. and, so far as we
have life, life at its highest and best.
we are saved. Salvation is progressive.
not final. It's meaning enlarges as life
enlarges. The salvation that the world
needs IS education. not redemption
Rev. Minot Simons. Unitarian, Cleve-
land Ohio.
A TRUE LOVER
God is a true lover, and he would
not be true lover If he should be
Indifferent to the love of those whom
( he loves. He hates and will hate for all
eternity those who in the end refuse
to love him. And in both he demon
strates his character of our true and
eternal lover.=Rev. Father D. s.
Phelan, Roman Catholic, St Louis
/ VALUE OF a GOOD CONSCIENCE
A life without conscience, toward
! God first and toward man because of
\ God, is the worst cf failures. No gold
/ can gid. no glamour of position or
! power can hue it with success. But
a good conscience is true riches. a
patent of genuine nobility, a breast
! plate against all adversities and light
4 Of inner peace and joy that viii sus-
tain us until we reach our Fathers
house.=Rev. JuniuS B. Remensnyder,
/ Lutheran, New York
( CHARACTER THE BEST POSSES
SION.
one littIe. act Of '-i-7dness. one xenrine
: exhibition of un~ m. mess, IS Hnd TO
! be thousand tir ~ nore valuable han
I the piled up millions of the rich. Rut,
more than that the loss of character.
mans best possession. is found to he
Z the loss Of ALL for when the heart con-
! dennis and the finger Of scorn is point
! ed at a man or woman it matters not
how many may be the millions they al
: apHear to be but The sT1ilI=tone that is
/ hung about the re- k---Rev- D.. w A..
+ FartIett- Co1greea tionafist. chico 70.
/ DEy Fl. .OPIHrG MORAL CHAP ACTE.R
It is not hv maliag excuses for ofti7-
dren when they dc wong t. at we tea Il
! them how to do right. But il is only