The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-14
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
AL Denominations.


Gems Cleaned From the Teachings OF
All Denominations.
Things are of no value whatsoever
except as they are used to develop
character and enrich human life.-Rev.
J. w. Lee. Methodist, Atlanta.
GROWING OLD.
Anybody. can grow old, If he lives
that is another matter.-Rev. DR..
Frank Crane, Congregationalist, Wor-
cester, Mass.
OUR CHIEF JOY
Next to seeing Christ's face ourselves
our chief joy should be found in bring
ing the Christ love into the hearts of a
sinful world.-Rev. DR.. Frank De Witt
Talmage. Presbyterian, Los Angeles,
Cal.
FORGIVENESS.
1t is far more noble to pardon than
to be avenged. 1t is part OF the animal
man to retalfate an injury. 1t is only
magnanimity to forgive.-Cardina
Gibbons, Roman Catholic, Baltimore.
JUDGMENT.
Justice is one of the highest express
sions of the divine love, and we shall
all be brought into judgment for every
word and thought and deed. Eternal
judgment as we'll as love is ruling in
this world.-Rev. John Roach Straton,
Baptist Chicago.
BRIGHT SPOTS IN CIVILIZATION
planned, in which the atmosphere Is
surcharged with a keen sense of per-
sonal responsibility and where life is
real is the bright and shiny spot in
our civilization.-Rev. Roderick j.
EpiScopalian, Duluth, MINI.
LOVE AND HATE.
Love is more wholesome than hate,
for love fills the hearts hunger and
lightens hfe's burden. Love, though
love may be given in vain, is yet love-
nd ic hi ind
and thrills the world with it's glad,
sweet song.-Rev. DR.. William NJ. Jones,
Congregationalist, St. Louis.
HOPE AS AN INSPIRATION.
Hope is the inspiration of all enter
prise. BY it the farmer plants corn
for autumn harvests, and the business
man invests capital for larger returns.
Pessimism with doubt and despair
never in this world did anything but
criticise. growl and raise a disagree
able dust. All noble deeds that glorify
mankind and make this world better
were achieved by the divine inspira-
ton of hope-Rev. Rush r. Shipper,
Unitarian, Atlanta.
THE CHURCH'S PLACE.
The place of the church is determin-
ed by the fact that Christianity is adj
justed to man not only as unit, but
as a social being. 1t is useless for man
to rebel against the fact that he is
social by structure in all his being
cause he is social he is incomplete in
himself. His arrival at fullness of pos
depends upon the presence and
CO. operation of others. The Robinson
Crusoe life is a deformity in any realm
and chiefest of all in the religious.-
Rev. r. NJ. West, Baptist. St. Paul.
CLIMAX OF ALL ARTS.
There is no love worth the name
that is not buttressed by righteous |
ness and that does not root back into |
sternal reality. Love is what 1t is |
because God is what he is, for God |
Is love, and some time, somewhere, We
shall know enough to learn with |
hearts that fairly leap to meet the |
Father heart that love is God. So |
owe can bear all things and hope all |
things and endure all things, for 1t /
sees as with a prophets vision the |
ultimate end and doom of all unreal |
ty and the glorious and eternal SUI
premacy of love. Love as related to |
men has also a place in this life de- |
1nition, for love like this thinketh no |
evil. imputeth not wrong motives, ac-
ualIy forgives its enemies and forgets |