The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-02
RELIGIOUS THoUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations


The hope Of society is in Individual
excellence. the sense of personal worth
and the accumulation of weight of in
dlv1oual manhood.-Rev. DR.. Newell
dwight. Hills. Congregationalist,
GODS HOUSE.
Tne house Of God Is the only house
on the earth that God is going to take
the mouse OF God you can not but feel
at home.-Rev. william A Quayle,
Metho dist, Chicago.
PERIL IN BEING INDIFFERENT.
me notion that one religion is as
good as another means practically that
one religion is as bad as another The
step from indifferentism to infideIity is
easy.-Rev. George Thompson, Roman
Catholic, Portland, Ore.
GOOD WILL.
Good will toward men is the most
perfect sentiment of which the humal
breast is capable. for in it alone of all
the virtues is there no danger of ex-
cess.-Rev. Frank Crane, Congrega-
tionalist. Worcester. Mass.
ONLY GOD KNOWS.
Commercial success is given by God
for reasons that men do not know.
Prosperity is in part dependent on
health, energy, forethought, decision
and instinct, but it is also dependent
upon birth gifts and opportunity that
are given to one man in a million and
denied the rest-why to this one above
Newell Dwight Hills. Congregational
fst, Brooklyn.
CONCENTRATION OF ENERGIES.
What is it that enables a man so to
lay hold of his opportunities that they
become incidents of success? 1t is not
due to any exceptional gift of genius
1t lies simply in the power to concen-
trate his energies on one thing at
time. 1t is this girding of the will to
do well each new duty that comes that
makes a man ready for every new OPP
portunity.-Rev. D. s. Machey, Disci-
pie, New York.
QUESTION OF MEN.
Success in home mission work is
best men can accomplish effective work
in the home mission field. The question
of an adequate ministry is one of the
most important, IL not the most i'm
portant, that presents itself to the
church for solution today, and it is one
that vitality touches the work of home
missions.-Rev. Jerome M. Guss, Luth-
eran, Etna, Pa.
VALUE OF WORK.
Our work often makes US anxious.
We thirst for recognition or else we
grieve over the meager and inconspic-
uous results of all our efforts. But the
value of our work is determined not by
the bulk of the result achieved, but by
the spirit in which the work is done.
1t is only as we go deep into the work
itself, without thought of the conse-
Quences, that we vitality affect the lives
Of others. Besides the chief value of
our work Is that it promotes ample and
symmetrical self development. God
thinks more of 4 man than of his work.
The work NAV be wood, hay or Stubble.
in the end burned up, but the man is
saved.-Rev. Edward Judson, Baptist,
New York.
CHARACTER FORMING.
What gives our conduct value is
character. Character is the acme of
human values. At fifty years of age
twenty-five. Adult characters when
wrought upon by that master trans
former of characters yield up in ex-
ceptional instances. He that is filthy
at fifty, and he that is holy at twenty
five will not depart from it. This is
the rule that guides practical men in
the workaday world and is now out
lining the policy of the church. Adult
life is the time of character building.
Heredity in Varying proportions fur
nishes in fiux all many Ingredients.
Out of these manhood will be formed
or malformed. Good impulses may
overcome a child's nascent evil i'm
pulses and pluck a brand from the
burning In children the embryonic
may be inoculated with
and tester sore upon the
body social. Elasticity characterizes
the early life of all creatures and pro-
claims the law. Youth Is the time OF
character forming.-Rev. William J.
Methodist, Brooklyn.
RIGHT AND SIN.
A child has no right to refuse to
perform the wise commands of its
parent It owes to its parent its life,
it's support and its progress. If the
child is ever to attain it's highest use
fitness, which is the lawful demand
laid upon every child, 1t must be en-
tirely submissive to the higher intellf-
gence of its parents, by whose wise
counsels 1t is to be developed. God Is
our parent. We are dependent upon
him for our existence. for our support
and for our development. He is in
finite in righteousness. wisdom and
goodness; therefore he has a perfect
right to make laws for the govern
ment of his creatures and to COM
mand obedience with the infiiction of
whatever penalties he may deem
necessary for the attainment of the
desired end. And because his laws
are righteous and holy every de-
parture from the requirements of
those laws is of the nature of sin. God
only the right; therefore to
iisobey him by transgressing his law
Is to do evil. Right Is right because
It is in harmony with the holy nature
Of God-Rev. James F. Ray, Presby-