The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-06
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It is lone with the blowing clover and
the falling rain" We must not be
afraid to take our dogmas and our sac
raments out of the artificial incense
/ breathing air of the sanctuary into the
world of living, growing things and see
whether they viii take root and flour
ish or whether, like liquid air and
other highly artificial products, they
Will shortly evaporate and disappear
Rev. Willard B. Thorp. Congregation
alist, Chicago.
RELIGIONS HIGHEST ASPECT.
The highest aspect of religion is not
a petition for something It Is the
surrender of the heart to infinite truth
and infinite righteousnes s.-Dr. c. R.
Henderson, Baptist, Chicago.
NO DEAD LINE HERE
In education there is no dead line.
The Osler law fails to work in this
case If in mo other Life is a school.
! knowledge. 1t is not hedged about
with years.-Rev. Albert Jones Lord,
Congrega tionalist, Meriden, Conn.
THE IDEAL LIFE.
The ideal life is that which Jesus
lived, and we should aim to live like
him. While We have not built UP any
magnificent edif1ces, we have cultivated
something far better-tile Bethlehem
spirit-the spirit of love, helpfulness
and service.-Rev. D. w. Bartlett
Baptist, Los Angeles.
HOW TO ACHIEVE GREATEST
HAPPINESS
Trueness to the highest and hottest
motives and ideals that are within US
brings greatest happiness and peace
Right thoughts produce and conserve
a right life. High thinking is a tonic.
1 Low thinking breeds disease. Clean
ness of heart means clearness of head.
To grovel spiritually is to declare one
self to be a sloven mentally. We must
keep ourselves purified of unwhole
/ someness If we would attain the
/ heights where holy men dwell.-Rev.
/ |. ". Henderson, Presbyterian, Brook
lyn.
THE OPTIMIST.
The true optimist is one who, while
| he is not Indifferent or blind to the
presence and power of evil. yet looks
at God and the good, and because he
sees God as more powerful than the
evil, because he sees the stars in their
| courses fighting against the siseras of
| evil. because he sees the scaffold on
4 which the right has been crucified
swaying the future and because he can
! see God standing in the shadow keep
ing watch above his own he is able
to take up the cheerful song of Brown
! ing's little maiden:
Gods in his heaven
Ais right with the world!
Rev. DR.. John L. Hillman. Episco-
palian, Pittsburg.
GREATEST FACT OF THE WORLD.
Religion was not born of supersti-
ton tradition or scholarship. It is the
greatest fact of the universe in spite
of this, having its ground in the fun
| damental truths, needs and relations
| of the immortal parts of man. Re-
iigion sprang into being before the BIZ
] Die. It's laws were observed long be-
fore a word of the book was written.
/ Break down the Bible. sweep away its
history and chronology, as some have
for a few years tried hard to do and
te.1. h r.T~ II
you do not touch, much less destroy,
the authority and obligations of re-
ligion.-Rev. w. ~ Waterman. Con-
gregationalist, Chicago.
SPIRITUAL NUTRITION.
Bread Is all sufficient for life. 1t is a
perfect food, containing all the ele-
| ments needed for nutrition. Man Will
thrive on bread diet. Nor is it other
wise with Jesus. In him there is ev-
erything that we need for life and
/ character. He is covert from the
tempest, rivers of water in drought
loaves of bread in famine, the shadow
of great rock in a weary land. Fol-
the polluted he is purity; for the irri-
table he Is patience; for the faint he is
| courage: for the weak he is strength
for the ignorant he is wisdom; for the
1 hungry he is food. God who knew
the needs of our bodies. stored in the
wheat all nutritive qualities for US &c
assiniIate according to our need And
stored all the elements required for oul
spiritual nutrition in Christ, leaving Us
to appropriate them as we wiIl--Rev
DR.. \. Lincoln Moore, Baptist. New
York.
IMMORTALITY.
Mans powers and gifts, as well as
his nature fit him for immortality and
strongly point to its reality. This life
is TOO narrow and circumscribed FOL
the Iinitless possibilities of his powers
There is law apart from man which
1 endoHs each creature with only tina
which it's sphere demands, and tbs
measure of the result is equal to the
apacity. No seed finds in itself a la
tent force which does not find expires
/ sion in the condition of its existence
Bloom. flower and fruit reach com
pleteness. Nothing in 1t remains IN
developed. It is so with every animal
there is in its sphere expression for it,
developed. But man is the solitary ex
ception. And we're death to end all W.
| could not understand his possession o.
the great gifts and powers, capable o.
unthinkaDle development. Like tbs
rest OF creation we contend there mus
be another life for the fuller express
sion OF these latent powers for Whos'
deveIop znent there is here no opportun
ity.-Fev. Joseph Stephan, Methodist
st. Louis.
Ny dear, said the professor. 7 fea
that our grocer is aduiterating hi
ssots ;na-,~~il1ess