The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-07
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings OF
All Denominations.

Love is the shortest, safest surest
road to heaven.=Carainal Gibbons,
Roman Catholic. Baltimore.
ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
People who put much into life get
much out of it. The more one puts
in the more he gets out.-Rev. Henry
c. Swentzel. Episcopalian, Brooklyn.
A VIEW OF THE ALMIGHTY.
God IS power to protect the OBJ
ject Of his love. God Of wrath only
to make it possible for mercy to reach
the miserable.=Rev. J. j. Kayhoe.
Lutheran, Louisville, KY
A NEEDFUL SALVATION.
The salvation of which the world
stands most In need today is a saliva
ton from spiritual selhshness and mar
rownindedn ess.-Rey. e. Dean Ellen
wood, Bniversalist. Atlanta, Ga
THE THING MOST NEEDED.
The noblest thing, the most power
full thing, the most natural and uni
versal thing. the most necessary, far
reaching and all conquering thing. is
faith.-Rev. Frederick d. Power,
Christian Church, Washington.
UNIQUE RELIGION.
The Christian religion is certainly
unique In the idea of a God going out
after sinners. Other religions have
good points, but none has anything
to compare with this.-ReV. c. A.
Barbour, Baptist. Rochester, n. Y.
UNCERTAINTY.
With all our progress in ingenious
invention and mechanical appliance
with all our marvellous conquest of
time and space. still the element of
uncertainty is not yet overcome.@Rev.
Henry Frank. Independent, New York.
SAFETY OF THE SOUL.
The human soul must meet strong
foes and therefore must be garrisoned
with divine forces. 1t will REQUIRE
pheus to get the soul safely past the
rocEs-Rev. Dr. w. J. Williamson,
Baptist, st. Louis.
GOOD WILL.
The need of the hour is the spirit
of good will. Harsh criticisms and un-
just judgments are as perilous to the
peace of society as sparks flying to-
ward the powder magazine. There
fore the hope of society is in the grad
ual progress of good will and broth
erly love.-Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight
Hills, Congrega tionalist, Brooklyn.
SPIRIT OF GOD.
When David went forth to meet Co
Hath he was armed with the spirit of
God. which helped him to conquer
that mighty giant. And so The spirit of
his battles If we trust him. It is the
spirit of God that causes us TO be link
ed to the church mad feel that it is
our pIace.-Rev. G. F. Miller, Episco-
paltan. Brooklyn.
PHILANTHROPY AND CHRIS
TIANITY.
We cannot serve our brother men
nor even have a desire to do so long
apart from the service of God. As
philanthropy is the legitimate product
of a Christian civilization. so we can
see that If all other churches and
Christian institutions of our Lord were
destroyed it would not be long before
our institution of mercy would Wither
and decay.=Rev. z. Talbot. Episco-
palian. Washington.
DISAGREEMENT OF DIVINE
THINGS.
There are particles IN every fluid
that can be discerned only with the
aid of a microscope. Mans eye, un-
aided, cannot behold them. In ike
manner mans wisdom cannot comnre-
bend the wisdom of his Creator. How
ever. God has given man love, and by
means Of its power his heart can dis
Germ many Of the things Of God that
would otherwise remain unintelligi BILE.
Rev. Linn Bowman. Methodist,
Philadelphia
Use or THE MUCK RAKE
Jesus before PLATE declared he
came to bear witness to the truth.
What IS truth asks plate. Here IS
a scene upon which the reformer Of
today should think. The man with
the hoe and the man with the muck
rake are both needed, IL both are
bearing witness te the truth as they
see 1t. There Is 40 greater religion
than life, and life s. EHIfllment OF the
personal fdeal neighbor stands
According to his point Of truth,
YOU hold the hos ana cultivate the
soil or the muck and raise an ur-
necessary stencil a danger to the
nation is not 81 go ach use Of the