The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
RELIGIoUs THoUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings of
all Denominations.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings of
all Denominations
Retiring within ourselves from time
to time to cultivate the Interior lie is
the necessary law of human progress.
ZRey- Dr. Madison c. Peters, Bap-
fist. New York
HIGHEST USE FOR REASON.
10 solve the problem Of the Christ
Is the highest use to which reason can
De put, Tor it concerns the eternal In
terests of your entire personality
yer.
ALWAYS REWARDED.
Self denial always brings its own
reward. No man can make sacrifice
for another without establishing a
new bond of friendship.-Rev. DR..
Charles W Blodgett, Methodist. Allie
gheny. Pa.
STICK TO RESOLUTIONS.
Never throw away a good resolution
because you have broken it. Mend il,
and it will be better than ever Mend
It every time it breaks and keep on
using it.-Rev. r, J. Burdette, Baptist,
Los Angeles. Cal.
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
It is not enough to believe that right
is right. There must be a passion for
goodn ess, a hunger of righteousness for
righteousness in men is the life of God
in the souls of men-zRev. ". z. Bar
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THE MIND AS A SHOP.
The eye is a, door to the mind and
1 the mind is the shop in which charac-
ter is made The material out of
through the doorway Of the eye or
ear.-Rev. Ora Samuel Gray, Metho-
dist. Washington.
SERVICE.
Mans best service to his fellow man
! IS, first, to help him to help himself
The service enc renders his country is
Il help the succeeding generations to
help themselves Rev. John L. Rec
rler. Presbyterian. St. Louis.
THE WAGEWORKERS
There is still great class of unor-
ganized wageworkers who need the
sympathy and guidance of disinterest-
| ed men and women. The church must
be concerned for that vast throng
nfe,LRey. E. w Delk, Lutheran,
A GREAT FOLLY.
Some people make the mistake of
/ thinking they can afford to read all
kinds Of books, see all sorts of pic
lures and go into all sorts of question
able associations, Intellectually. with
out harm. Never was there greater
folly than this.=Rev. L. A. Banks
Methodist. New York
CURE. FOR CRIME.
The science of a good and true life
| is not in good blood or environment
or money or culture or education.
/ The only hope for the wayward is to
repent. acknowledge his evil tendencv
and pray for strength higher than
/ his oWn.@Rev W. A Bartlett Con-
gregationalist, Chicago.
DESIRE.
We are all the custodians of desire
and each cherishes an ambition of
some kind. for the SUCCESS of which
We pray after a fashion and labor ac-
cording as the Idea Of toll possesses
US. The god Of one man is ease. while
that of another is luxury. Brain
sweat and brow sweat are freely shed
that name and fame may weave lau-
rels around the brow.-Rev. w. c.
Conn. Episeopalian, Brooklyn.
IDEAL SOCIETY.
The ideal society, be sure will not
/ be made bylaws, though 1t will be
helped forward by laws. The ideal So
/ ciety will be a, company of people who
are self governing, who carry their
authority about within them, who have
1 learned to say, I must, because they
have heard the voice speaking from
above, saying, You must. Public opin-
ion at its best is just that.=Rev. DR..
Cleland Boyd McAfee, Presbyterian,
Brooklyn.
THE UNDERSTANDING HEART.
Is not ian understanding heart to
discern between good and bad" cur
very sorest need this day. And that
means not only a wise understanding
and true moral assortment. but a
heart warmed and instructed by di-
vine charity. We must have this ..un-
Outstanding heart for wisdom, first,
in our homes; second, in our business.
third. in society; fourth in the church.
Rev Daniel Barr, Episcopalian. Ia
koma Park. D. c.
A GREAT NEED.
The supreme need of mankind is
conversion to religion, to the spiritual
point of view. to an appreciation Of
| what Is most worthy Of the name re-
ligion as human asset; conversion to
the spiritual point of view, an estl-
mate of religion not apart from prac-
teal life, but as q force IN forming
and sublimstin It all, the innate force
If it Is noe denied or fgnored) making
for nobility and for the noblest way OF
doing all things.-Rey. Charles
| Fieischner. Hebrew Boston
CONSCIENCE LIKE A FRIDGE.
Conscience fssthe5 approach to mans
moral nature It IS like a bridge. The
approach to bridge connects the
I bridge proper with the land Take
away the approach. and you cannot
get on the bridge. Every man has a
moral nature. but many have no con-
science They may have taste, instinct,