The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-28
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings OF
All Denominations.

Rev. DR.. w. c. Biting, Baptist, st.
Louis.
| NEED OF ACTIVITY IN CHURCHES.
Folks don't want anything to do with
the church if it is dead. Let the warm
blood flow in our veins, let our hands
be busy, our eyes wide open. and watch
the world come to US. People go where
there is something doing-Rev. DR..
Luther E. Todd, Methodist, st. Louis.
CHRISTIAN LIVING.
Goodness and worldly lustS are to be
denied and cast out before the positive
and constructive side of Christian iv-
ing is begun. All fields must be clear
of stones and rubbish before the corn
is planted or the palaces built.-Rev.
w. r. Breed. EpiscopaIian, Lancaster,
Pa.
Life is no mechanical thing; 1t has
no value in itself. but is what we make
it, and has value according to what we
put into 1t. The central principle in
the discovery Of life is that it comes
from God. To discover life is to dis
cover his plan for it.-Rev. Charles s.
Mills. Congregationalist. st. Louis
CHALLENGING GOD.
Truth wants to be challenged by
stern sentiments at the doors of the
soul God himself thinks more of US
if We do not let him take possession
without challenge. Our age has moth
ing to suffer from honest doubt 1t has
borne much, however, from slovenly
thinking that escapes almost anything
with any appearance of truth in it
Rev. DIR. T. Ross Paden, Presbyterian,
Allegheny. Pa
MAMMON WORSHIP CONDEMNED
Mammon worship is as hateful to
God and as degrading to man as was
Baal worship. Mammon must be de-
stroyed before society can be saved.
Do you know, I think we need to look
upon modern business much We
look upon modern China-as a
heather world to be redeemed for
fIn los yfaT-'c
tan business man must. be the mis-
sionary to this heather world.-Rev.
A. H. Harnly. Baptist. Austin. Ill.
MORAL SUFFICIENCY.
The true antiseptic. personal and
social, is in selfhood. not environment
nor legislation nor quack salines of
political economy. Moral sufficiency
comes only from God. Both the social
organism and its units, individual
lives, can find their preservation no
where else than in the principles that
the Nazarine revealed Here only is
the salt of the earth. Eternal law
says, Suffer in attaining or suffer for
not attaining Every realm of life il
Illustrates it.-ReV. DR.. w. G. Biting,
Baptist. St. Louis.
MANS OPPORTUNITY.
God will not force any one into
heaven. Heaven implies a state of
righteousness, and dragging a man
there against his will will not qualify
him for the state. Personal holiness
can not be secured without the con-
sent of the individual. God desires all
men to be happy, but many men are
not God desires all men to be wise,
but many men are fools. God desires
all men to be saved. but some men are
lost. Something more is needed than
Gods desire.-Rev. c. B. Mitchell,
Methodist Cleveland, o.
RELIGIONS CHIEF TEST.
The supreme test of religion is that
1t be experienced in our lives: A
man may have deep religious feeling,
but If it does not prove itself in ac-
ton it is but vapid emotionalism.
Sentiment and prayers do but make
mockery of God and the church if
they do not issue in right life. 1t IS
only when our religion masters our
temptation, sweetens our ugly tempers,
overcOmes our bad habits, casts out
our selfishness, moves us to do good
to our neighbOrS, gives US courage IN
danger and faith and calm under the
fire of affection, that it is real. Then
it has set to it the seed of experience,
and then will it bring the favor OF God
and crown with an immortal hope
Rev. Junius B. Remensynder, Luth-
eran, New York.
WHERE DO you" LIVE?
Thoughts are things as much as
brick walls and paved streets. There
is such a thing as inSanitary thinking
as surely as there is such a thing
insanitary plumbing. There is a men,
tai atmosphere conducive to health as
much as sunshine and fresh air, ana
there is a miasma of the soul which is
as deadly as the malaria of the Dis
NAL swamp. To select a sp1ritua,
dwelling place where the atmosphere
is heavy with hate and poisonous with
passion, to pull up the shutters of de-
spair and exclude the sunshine of hope,
to close the windows of the heart and
exclude the light of faith and the
warmth of love, is as deadly as II
would be to build ones house in Il
stagnant marsh or to live in a darh,
unventilated cellar.-Rev. DR.. Frank
Oliver Hall, Universalist, New York.
THE NATIONS INTELLECTUAL
LIGHTHOUSE.
1t is given to the soldier to protect
liberty, but it is the sch olar who dis
covers the principles of freedom. 1t IL
given to legislatures to make the laws,
but it is the scholar who discerns the
principles. 1t is given to the me
chant to feed and clothe the state, but
zen worth clothing and supporting. 1t
is given to the church to make the
citizen moral, but without the school
house conscience would be untaugh-,
rude and mistaken, 1t is not 10
much to say that the school house Is
the intellectual lighthouse for the peo-
pie. Blessed are our educators! The
republic owes its teachers an immeas-
urable debt. The first of all duties IS
and the library and lecture hall en-
ticing for the feet of all children and
youth of our nation.-Rev. DR.. Newell
Dwight Hills, Congregationalist,
Brooklyn.
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