The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-20
RELEGIoUs THouGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings OF
All Denominations.

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All Denominations.
Salvation is git received by faith.
but characJ er- building depends on our
thought VIII and EFFORT Like the
chlseilng Of the sculptor we are pro-
ducing It day by day.=Rev. Josephus
Stephan Methodist, st. Louis.
A VALUE OF SUFFERING.
God knows best how to tie up peo-
pie in the company where they moral
", religiously and periodically belong,
and orttlmes suffering is the only way
It can be done-ReV DR. S Edward
Young, Presbyterian, Pittsburg.
MODERN CULTURE.
The culture Of the times Is debating
to Christianity rather than being mold
ed BY it, Gigantic commercial enter
prlses are growing at the expense OF
law, Justice and the Golden Rule
Rev. F. H. Stilwell, Baptist, Cleveland.
Ohio.
TWO IMPORTANT STEEDS.
Care for self and care for others are
! the Two Steeos which should draw the
chariot Of regenerated life to the
4 highest human attainment and to the
final approval Of Godfrey. DR.. John
Lee Allison Presbyterian. Washing
ton.
THE GLORIOUS IDEAL.
Jesus Christ Is mama to our fam
ished souls. He is food for intellect.
heart and soul, the glorious ideal, the
/ flower and communication of the hui
mag race the ail-suf1cient saviour
Rev. DR.. A. Lincoln Moore, Baptist,
New York.
HOME TRAINING.
Children cannot be trained for God
IN an unhappy home. We need to
purify the spiritual atmosphere of the
home Of our country so that the chill
dren may learn to know God and be
trained for his service.-Rev- A. r..
Holderby, Methodist, Atlanta, Ga.
JUSTICE AND MERCY
God is just; therefore sin cannot go
unpublished. But God is almost merci-
full, for. he knoweth the frame of NOR
tai man, and mercy pleads before God
for the mitigation of the sinners SEN
tence. Thus Justice and mercy become
reconciled by the institution of the day
! Of atcnement.-Rev. A. Guttmacher,
Hebrew, Baltimore.
A POTENT FACTOR.
The character of the family deter
mines the character of the nation, its
/ possession, its length of life. and in the
family the most potent factor is the
mother God has so made the mother
that the little child gathers from her
from the very inception of its life the
elements of its eharacter.=Rev. H. C.
Weston, Baptist Wayne, Pa
TRUE -REFORMER.
To hurl anathemas at existing
/ wrongs IS not to reform them. If one
do no more than find fault he had bet
! ter keep his mouth shut, for fau1t-hnd-
/ ing only engenders bitterness and
! hopeless discomfort. The. true re-
/ former not only calls attention to So
ciety's wrongs. but leads the way to
better things-Rev. Robert Hopkins
Congregationalist. Cleveland, o.
THE Personal GOD.
Religious ideas are the dominating
forces in this world, and he who is
without such ideas takes long strides
I toward barbarism. Eliminate from our
literature the idea of the personal God,
and the loss is beyond calculation
4 Without that idea there can be no in
| depreciation of human history, and
moral science is gone forever.-Rev.
A. H Herries, Presbyterian, Union
City. Pa.
MAN AND THE ART OF LIFE.
Wealth is a reward or an accident.
Poverty is an inheritance or a misfor-
+ tune Both are but little while.
Neither is a fixture for even this life.
and neither goes Beyond death But
the Mantle man s. the thing. The
man makes wealth. THE man masters
poverty. The man eutlasts the world.
/ The man is a spirit. and spirituality IS
life. How much life a man has at
| last is how much soul the man has.
The art of life is the building of a soul.
Rev DR.. n. MCGEE Waters, Congre-
gationalist, Brooklyn.
HEAVENS HALOS.
The end Of the life of the kingdom is
not to get into It ourselves, but we get
into it only when it gets into US. We
The halos of heaven are not for soli-
tary saints. for isolated pietists. for
pilgrims who trudge alone the way to
pearly gates. They are made by the
smile of God shining through the tears
we have dried. by the CLEAN of heaven
we have brought into tried and dark
ened hearts here. SeIishness sends no
bright threads ahead for the eternal
loom to. US in weaving halos. Service
means self-sacrihce. and this means
that we have earnestness enough to
cruelty ourselves.=Rev. DR.. w. G. Bit
ting, Baptist. St. Louis.
TAKE LESSONS FROM NATURE.
In these days when the craze for
riches and the feverish haste to be
wealthy drives so many to wild spec
ulation and the short cuts to fortune
we would do well to sit at the feet OF
old Mother Nature and let her give us
a few lessons. Nature says work is
the law of life: that If a man wants
anything he should work for it. She
lifts her sweet voice against gambling
and betting. Nature is always honest
and pays US back in the kind we give
and manifold more than we give her
, We SOW in handfuls she gives Us
: wagon loads in return. There is nc