The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-21
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.


The first effect of good life is the
cheerfulness and joy born of the testi-
mony of a good conscience.@Rev. J. A.
Tracey, Roman Catholic, Germantown.
Pa.
OUR GREAT COMPANION.
You do not need a telescope to see
the Great Companion, for he is ever by
your side, espOnsfve to the slightest
touch and weakest prayer.-Rey.
Moore Sanborns Unitarian, Atlanta, Ca
TRUTHS.
Religious truths are something in
side of a man. They cannot be felt
with our hands, they cannot be seen,
yet we possess them and know they
are there.-Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott,
Congregationalist, Brooklyn.
A GREAT DELUSION.
It is one of the great decisions of
the world for US to suppose that peo-
pie are we'll off or blessed or prosper
GUS because they are delivered from
the necessity of toiI=Rev. DR.. Minot
j. Savage, Unitarian. New York.
EQUAL RIGHTS.
The paramount doctrine of equal
rights is that each soul has a divine
right, a kingly and knightIy right to
all the liberty he can use and has the
right to stand up in his Makers Image
to show what he can use.@Rev. NJ. w.
Stryker. Presbyterian. Clinton, N. Y.
WORLDS MOTIVE POWER.
Faith is the motive power of the
world. The men and women who, I'M
der God, have lifted the world slowly,
notch by notch, out of saVagery to-
ward civilization have been men and
women who believed. No doubter ever
became world power.@Rev. E. Dean
Fleetwood, Universalist, Atlanta. Ga.
EARTHLY HAPPINESS.
Be content with your position in life.
Earthly happiness and real dignity do
not depend on the accumulation Of
wealth and honor. The Saviour of
mankind and the model of men had
not wherein to lay his head. There
fore il cannot be dfshonorable to be
poor.ZCardinal Gibbons, Roman
Catholic. Baltimore.
SUPERIORITY OF MAN
Accidents of life do not make men
superior Wealth does not make men
superior. There should be more equal
ity among us. Many men in fustian
and patches are better men than many
riding today in carriages. and many
rich men are better than we give them
credit for Simply because a man
tolls with his hands we cannot say he
IS a chattel---Rev- W. e. FatherIy.
Methodist, Brooklyn.
DOUBTS.
Thoughtful people have doubts. but
doubts ought not to be the sum total
stock ia life Doubts ought to be like
clouds that by and by are swept from
the SKY. We have got to have sunup
and sunlight. and the blanketfne of the
clouds must some time be torn avvav
and the sunlight must get at the How
ers of the world lest the flowers fan
% bloom and exhale perfume to the
dist. Chicago.
THE CHURCH. WITH. A GRIP
The church upon whose heart 1i.s
heaviest this burden. the hrrder1 IF ~
common people; the church that Is
struggling to uplift them, to inspire
then with hope and encourage
lneht; the church that is actually get
ting beneath the load that they are NOT
aple TO carry and helping to carry it
with them, is the church that q wears
from To-Day will not only have its grin
". upon the common people, but viii have
us grip also upon the WeaIthv-Rev
Or. Len q. Broughton, Baptist. Atlanta.
Ca. Co.
STRENUOUS LIFE SUICIDAL.
People too often get SO impressed
with the idea that there is not only
great deal to be done in the world. b,,tt
tnat no one else can do it as well as
they Now. that is form Of unfaith.
Hurry is a species of fnfideIitv We
see all about US maniacal creatures Of
mat sort who have not yet been cor
rallied in an asylum. And their actions
cannot be excused on the plea that II
IS really due to something especiallv
eXhllaratlng in the American air. They
are really volcanic eruptions of human
self seeking and greed. There is a spe-
cles Of moral lunacy abroad, and peo-
PIE VINO think they are intense, but are
really hysterical, are burning them
selves up before they are properly can
d1dates for a crenatory. Killing one
SELF by inches by such process is lust
as much suicide as 1t is to draw razor
through the jugular vein The cyclonic
hysterla of the times is fatal to pro
per appreciation of the finer things in
hfe--Rev. Dr. Charles H ParxhlIrst
Presbyterian. New York.
GOODANGELS IN EVERYDAY. LIFE
There are opportunities today for the
preparing of meals for the hungry
There are the worthy poor, and in Civ
Ing TO them we are giving unto the
Lord. But there are also the sorrow
ing, who need more than meat and
clothing They are in want of soul
food Perhaps a dear one has been
them IN the face, an empty crib is
spread with covers as white as the face
OF the sinless dead. Others are lang
uishing upon beds of af11iction, shut in
from many of the comforts and pleas
ures Of life, and all these need to be
fed by those who perform the work Of
good angels in everyday life. Still others
have had abundance, but through mis-
fortune lost all and are in deep sor-
row These all are hungering for
word OF comfort. kind look of sym
paEhy Deal thy bread to the hun
cry is Gods command. and the truly
faithful of God are thus daily prepar-
ing meals in the desert.-Rev. DR. L.
NJ Zimmerman, Lutheran. Baltimore.
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