The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-07
RELIGIOUS
Gems Cleaned from Teachings
of All Denominations

of All Denominations
Burdens become benedictions when
they are bravely borne.-Rev. Moore
Sanborn, Unitarian, Atlanta, Ga.
A PENETRATING FORCE.
True religion does not substitute it
self for all other interests and passions;
it penetrates them.=Rev. DR.. Frank
Crane, Congregationalist, Worcester,
Mass.
EFFICIENT CHRISTIANS.
The practically efficient Christian is
not the peculiarly able man or woman.
but those VIII are m~agnihcently in
earnest.-Rev- John Graham, Presby-
terrain, Philadelphia.
CHRISTIAN SUCCESS.
Success in Christian work does not
always depend upon superior mental
attainments, but upon the powers of
adaptation. - Rev. George Adams,
Methodist, Brooklyn.
WHY WE WORSHIP GOD.
Cod is love, eternal and abiding love.
This is why we worship him. We
could not worship justice or almighti-
ness or greatness. We can only wor-
ship love=Rev. Robert Hopkin, Con
gregationalist, Cleveland.
THE VALUE OF CHARACTER.
Character is worth more than all the
other things of life. If God has given
a man money, power. influence. it is
his most glorious privilege as he lives
to transmute these into character
Rev. DR.. w. j. Williamson. Baptist,
St. Louis.
RELIGION ASIAN INSPIRATION.
The world has become so accus-
toned to looking upon religion as a
source of consolation in the hour of
trial that it forgets very frequently
that religion was likewise to be a
source of inspiration in the hour of
suceess.-Rev- DR.. J. Levy, Hebrew,
Allegheny, Pa
THE BRAVEST PRAYER.
The best and bravest prayer for the
active Christian is not a prayer Tor
more strength from the divine store
house but a PRAYER for the faith and
the determination to use we'll the
strength with which we are already so
sDlendidly endowed-Rev. E. e Ell
lenwood, Universalist, Atlanta, Ga
DUTY AND HAPPINESS.
All duty is higher than happiness,
and for this reason we must make sac
rifice and trust in God. Nothing can
be happy unless it fulhlls the law OF
it's being and God will take away
business, health and all things. but
he will have you in the end.=Rev- N
d. Hills, Congregationalist, rookly
TO BE RELIGIOUS.
Being religious does not consist in
being cIeansed once for all, but is the
keeping of oneself clean, unspotted
from the world, guarding every point
Of attack in word, in thought, in act,
in association, in imagination, for the
supreme purpose of keeping himself
unspotted from the World.-ReV.
Paul Weyand, Methodist, P~ittsburg.
NEED OF GOSPEL TAKERS
h church and the world need to-
day not more clergymen to expound
the gospel. but more men and women
to talk the gospel. Talk It IN the
home. talk it in the office. talk it in
the shop. ak it in the factory, talk
it in the store. talk It on the farm, talk
!. it on the streets. talk 1t on the trains
/ talk it everywhere-Rev- T. J. N1lers,
Baptist, Indianapolis, Ind.
CREEDS.
: The world needs right principles and
: right principles rightly stated. Prln-
s ciples are seeds. They grow human
Z life. Now. faith gains by expression
Let no man nurse his a~ntfpathy &c
creeds. They are the demand Of our
Y nature. It is not a question whether
: we shall have a creed or not. The
G question is, Shall our creed be right OF
wrong, helpful or hurtful Rev
David Gregg. Presbyterian, Brooklyn
wEALTH's POWER.
: Never in the history Of the world die
wealth ave such power as To-Day
Never before was there such a fierce
obstinate and determined fight fol
riches as that at the present houH
In the business world, IN the socid
world, in the political world, and ever
in the religious world, often a mai
who is worth a million dollars can ex
= ert more influence than a THOUSAND
poor men.=Rev. ". T. Partridge, Bap
: tist, Pittsburg.
? DREAMS OF YOUTH
As you advance in attainment you
ideal will ADVANCE in its requirement.
so that it will ever be, Not as tnougl
Is I had already attained" but OF this b
sure. Every year will bring the rene
satisfaction of the Christ-like charac
: hter. and you shall realize that thes
dreams Of your youth We're not onl
= dreams. but also prophecies--Rev. I
Arthur Mather. Methodist, St. Louis-
- SUCCESS AND FAILURE.
The greatest success of life is mora
Il success. The greatest failure of If
is moral failure. It is better to liv
q clean life IN obscurity h a a sordi
once IN prominence. It Is better to b
an honest man on a small salary tina