The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

SCHMIDT, Lutheran, Kansas City, MO.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.
The truth is faithful to man in spite
of mans unfaithfulness to it, and 1t is
great blessing that it is so.-Rev.
George H. Hancock, Congregational
list, Rockford, Mich.
PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY.
If any man fancies that Christianity
is not practical he reveals his igno-
rance Of the New Testament. The re-
ligion of Jesus has to do with the life
| come.-Rev. L. A Crandall, Baptist,
FOLLY OF SHINING.
There is nothing so silly as to be a
sinner. 1t makes angels weep and
devils laugh to see a man trying to
serve God and himself. That man is
walking north and south. 1t is a
| straddle.-Rev. NJ. w. Stryker. Meth
| odist, Clinton, N. Y.
CHURCH ATTENDANCE
We speak of attending church as a
| duty More deeply is it a privilege
and a benefit. The union of the soul
with its God is the meaning and pur-
pose of religion. The church is a
means to that end.-Rev. c. A. Mar
tin, Roman Catholic, Cleveland.
LIES TRUE MEANING.
Life should mean the possibility of
unending bliss or it is not worth liv-
ing. The gates of God must open or
all Is failure. Life must mean char
joy forever.-Rev. Edwin Whittier
Caswel1, Methodist, New York.
MAKING OF MEN.
More men have been made by hav-
ing noble wives to share their limited
resources with them than have found
themselves and their nobler charac-
ters by waiting till they could give all
comforts to their chosen bride.-Rev.
DR.. Nehemiah Boynton, Congrega-
tionalfst, Brooklyn.
MANS STANDARD.
1t is a Christian duty for the strong
in spirit to come down to the weak for
the sake of effort to help up the weak,
but not for the sake of living along
the levels of the weak. The standard
has to be not the lower, but the high
er.-Rev. DR.. A. M Campbell Presby-
terrain, st. Louis
A BENEFIT TO SOCIETY.
If the Golden Rule was the regu-
lator Of life and conduct, the smart
set would have little time for gossip
and SANDER and more for reading re-
Election and. study. This would result
in many of the divorce mills shutting
down, thus permanently benefiting So
ciety.-Rev. G. w. Grinton, Methodist,
GOSPEL IN A NUTSHELL.
The cross is the abridgement of the
Christian religion. 1t is the gospel in
nutshell. 1t is the alpha and omega
of the Bible. 1t is the Christian guide
book to heaven. 1t is a manual which
the unlearned as we'll as the learned
may open and read and draw from its
pages the hidden mama of spiritual
delight.-Cardinal James Gibbons,
Roman Catholic, Baltimore.
HOW WE ARE JUDGED.
1t is the way we live day in and day
out tina tells us what We really are.
People judge US by what we are far
child grow up in a home where all is
gloom, where there is continual fric-
ton between father and mother,
where the sad side is made most, OF.
grow up to be a solemn, sordid sort of
person.-Rev. DIR. S. Edward Young,
Presbyterian, Pittsburg.
ART OF RESTING. -
There is a gospel of rest as well as a
gospel of work. He who has not yet
learned the art of real rest has not
learned the art of real living. The
great Teacher understood this when he
said to his disciples, Come we into
desert place and rest awhile The in
cessant turmoil of the cities tends to
shatter the nerves, exhaust the mental
powers and destroy the spirit so requl-
site for the performance of exacting
daily tasks. An important requisite of
a vacation is to get close to nature.
Another is a chance to dream or medi-
tate. This expands our sympathies for
humankind and creates a longing for
the divine-Rev. Jesse J. Kolmos, Con-
gregationalist, Chicago.
EXAMPLE AS A TEACHER.
The man or woman should do per-
sonal work unless his or her life is
what both wants that of others to be.
Men who are themselves not good have
no right to try to make others good.
There is no greater hindrance to real
religion than those who try to do per-
sonal work and who are known by
people they try to influence as them
selves leading lives not in keeping with
the teachings they hold up as needful
in the new light. A man is not fit for
heaven when he is first converted. He
is left to grow in grace. A mans ex-
ample creates more religion than all the
talking he can do. People who are in
trouble and heavy burdened pray to God
to die. They should pray to God for
strength to bear their burden. The
man who has been down and out can
preach religion better than the wealthy
minister who has been reared in luxury
and entered the ministry amid plenty.
People say that the world is getting bet
ter-more like the church. This is a
mistake for the fact is that many
churches are becoming too much like
the world.-Rev. Lee Lewis, Baptist,
Baltimore.