The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26
RELIGIOUS THoUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.


All Denominations.
The right kind of faith is that tenn
per of the soul which submits to what
God orders, but never submits to what
God can make better.@Rev. DR.. Theo-
dore L. Cuyler. egationalist,
Brooklyn.
A PRIVILEGE.
We should never be satisfied with
hoping that we are Christians. but. as
it is our privilege, it IS likewise our
duty to know that we are such.-Rev.
Luther Hess Waring, Lutheran, Wash
A GREAT MIRACLE.
The difficulties of unbelief are i'm
measurably greater than those of faith.
The miracle of the Christian church,
with its limitless influence, is a greater
miracle than the resurrection of its d.
vine human head.-Bishop Fallows,
Episcopalian, Chicago.
TRUE LEADER.
We all know perfectly well what
true leader is. He Is a man of ideas,
a man who advocates a certain line of
action, and he works through the press
and public speech that the people may
be convinced of the wisdom of his
course.@Rev. DR.. Mason, Unitarian,
Pittsburg.
REAL MANHOOD.
When men cease to be for sale,
when they have decency enough to re-
fuse to be bribed, common honesty
enough to be true to their VOWS and
courage enough to do their duty, then
we can say that men are more precious
than gold; then shall they take on real
manhood.-Rev. n. W. Stroup, Meth
odist, Cleveland. 0.
DIGNITY OF LABOR.
Labor is an ordination of God, and
the sweetest bread that any man or
by their own energy or deserved by
their usefulness. Whether the labor
be that of the hand or of the head,
there is dignity in it. All labor that
tends to supply humanity's wants. to
increase humanity's happiness and to
ameliorate and elevate human nature
is honorable.-Rev DIR. Madison c.
Peters Baptist. New York
TOUCH OF PERSONALITY
The moral quality Of the human
mind is always aggressive. The ethical
quality Of the human soul cannot be
negative; in some way or another it
is bound to express itself The subtle
law of human influence is universal
and no one escapes either its power or
its opportunities. Every one is bound
to give something of himself to anoth-
err The touch of personality is found
everywhere--Rev. H. NJ slocum,
Episcopalian, Colorado Springs. Col.
A MORAL OBLIGATION
There is a moral obligation in
money. There is moral obligation in
one dollar. If you have $4,000 or
$lUO,OO0 your obligation to your fellow
men and your church is 10000 or 1OO,-
600 times greater. When you can t
discharge your moral obligation to
your fellow men and your church you
ought to have another dollar There
ought to be a civil check to too much
wealth. When man gets too rich he
| IS menace to the public. for he makes
it too great struggle for men to get a
right share of this world-Rev. DIR.
Charles Aubrey Eaton. Baptist, Cleve-
land, G.
CHRIST IN OUR LIFE
Christ is the life of all morality too.
| Sometimes morality descends by in
heritance unacknowIedged Sometimes
contagion from his environment. Some
/ times mans own selfish heart con-
vinceS. him that to be moral is to do
4 the best thing for himself yet in its
1 final analysis the great cause of up
rightness. of purity. of self sacrifice. of
| disinterested love, Is the Christ. Christ
/ is the life. the rock of truth. upon
which his church was founded. His
/ divinity as well as his humanity his
man love, must be acknowledged by
1 the church bearing his name. Christ IS
the life of the home. How often he
ssnctified the joys thereof while upon
/ EARTH And he has never since ceased
1 in such ministrations of love. But
more intimate than all this is his near
ness and power within the individual
Ito you and to me in our sweetest
joys and in our most difficult tasks of
lifelife. In our moments Of greatest hope
fulness and in our seasons of deepest
depression, in our days of largest in
!