The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-14
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All DENOMINATIONS.

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Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.
The gospel is not a device to get us
| into heaven, but it is a way to get
heaven into us.-Rev. w. Nj. Stryker,
Presbyterian. Clinton, N. Y.
FINDER OF FRIENDS.
The secret cause of our sensitive
ness and of our isolation is lack of hui
mility.- Humility always finds friends.
Rev. DR.. Frank Crane. Congrega-
tionalist, Worcester, Mass.
MAN OF VISIONS.
The Christian by his very calling is
a man of visions. The unseen Is the
| real. the impossible the possible; hope
is ever to be realized--Rev. I. ].
Van Ness, Baptist, Nashville, Tenn.
CHRISTS WAY.
We seek the masses and hope to
save them, but Christ sought the one
man who needed him most. We can
not always do the most good by
preaching to the multitude-Rev. A.
r. Holderby, Baptist. Atlanta, Ga.
QUESTIONS OF NOTE.
The great questions of life are not
those that peep out of the attic win
dows of the mind, but those that
heart.-Rev. Frank Crane, Congrega-
| tionalist, Worcester, Mass.
HUMAN DRIFTWOOD.
The secret of failure is the lack of
| Q6In1L6n0SS
Of the human family are live drift
wood upon a chopped sea. &C. Nowhere
| is this lack of purpose more serious
] than among the young.-Rev. L. G..
Broughton, Baptist, Atlanta. Ga.
TWO MIGHTY KINGDOMS.
The kingdom of truth today is not
at war with the kingdom of might;
i it does not clash with physical energy.
| 1t is only when force is used to pro-
tect evil that the two Kingdoms are
opposed.-Rev. A. v. Raymond, Con
| gregationalist, Schenectady N. Y.
! THROUGH PAIN AND EFFORT.
All the great souls of history have
] sweat blood in the performance OF
/ their work. The men who have pro-
/ tected mighty movements in history,
ciety and the men who lay devils
| within themselves must grid
themselves for struggles, social and
personal. All progress is through
| pain and effort-Rev. L. Hulley, Bap-
| fist, Baltimore, Md.
BEING RIGHT WITH GOD.
Christianity means duty with both
| relationship and responsibility to God.
And If a man is right with God he will
| be right with men. 1t does not of
with men he will be right with God.
| Christianity is to put new manhood
| into the world. The forces it employs
are many; the end is single.-Rev. DR..
Francis w. Russell, Presbyterian, st.
| Louis
DISCIPLINE AND PUNISHMENT.
A pound of kindness will bring
about more real reform than ton of
| punishment. Indeed, 1t often hap
pens that the latter, instead of re-
forming. only leads the way to fur
| ther and worse wrongdoing. Rule
your children by love, and they will
seldom become fracticus, but If they
| do just apply the panacea of kindness,
and you will find it a cure-all for the
| wrong-doings of the little ones every
| time. Kindness can move the world.
Rev. DR.. Madison c. Peters. Baptist.
New York.
TEST OF SUCCESS.
! If you reveal to me your character
| as above reproach, will reveal to you
your destiny. 1t is probable you will
not be presidents or governors or SEN
ators or bishops, but the attainment OF
these high offices is not the test OF
| genuine success. The true test of sue
! cess lies in the fulhllment of duty.
Fidelity to moral and religious prin-
ciples in the face of obloquy and IN
! suit demands no small measure OF
moral heroism. The man who calmly
| fulfills a duty against public clamor
| displays greater courage than the
| captain who captures cities.-Caral-
! nal James Gibbons, Roman Cathonc'
Baltimore. Md.
| God wants US to have pleasure;
Nothing delights his Father heart
more than to see his children or1gnl
and happy. It could not be otner-
wise. He is our Father, and no rather
can be happy to see his cniloren pa mo
| rose and sad. But God the Father
wants his children to have pleasure
| that is in keeping with the law OF tnelr
/ spiritual life Man is made up OF a
| trinity of parts-body, soul ana spirit
and God wants these three 70 De
properly related to each other he Is
| not satisfied to see any one part de-
veloped at the expense OF the otner
| and a uniform development along this
line is happiness.-Rev. LII. Len u
| Brou~hton. Ba ptist, Atlanta. Ga.
| THE VALUE OF ISOLATION.
Nearly all the great men OF ouI
| oorntrv were born and reared amid
| enrroun dinngs conducive to study and
fboueht because of their isolation--in
| ofT1er. words the country In the mad
| rush and worry of comm ercial life in
| large cities, where every man Is
| touching elbows with his neighbor
| there IS scaut opportunity for the de-
| veiopment OF original thought, which
IA absolutely necessary to make man
| stand out among his fellows. Every
| Young man owes 1t to himself to gel
! out OF the business maelstrom at times
and sit quietly down with none bu1
his own brain and think out which Il
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