The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-22


And drive the warning foeman from
my sight;
I only ask. o Lord, by night or day
Strength for the hght.-Anon.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings OF
All Denominations.
| : One little deed of uplift one mite
| of aid, one act of kindness, will bear
fruit a Observation-Disclosures. Junius B.
Remensnyder Lutheran, New York.
KNOWLEDGE.
The beginning of knowledge is
classification; the end of knowledge is
specialization. At school we learn
rules; in life we learn things.-Rev.
Dr.. Frank Crane, Congregationalist,
| Worcester, Mass.
Remember, those who teach you
have suffered temptations. and the
made them worthy of being your
spiritual gufdes.-Rev. H. B. Chap
man, Episcopalian, New York.
NEED OF COURAGE.
Courage is what we all need in all
our work for God. All discourage
ment comes from a lack of courage.
When we are discouraged we are lack
ing in courage.-Rev. A. R. Holderby,
Methodist, Atlanta, Ga.
TO BE REMEMBERED.
must live for others, not for self. You
must at great personal cost or danger.
slay some lion of evil that menaces
the happiness of Bishop
William Frost, Presbyterian, st. Louis.
BEST TYPE OF PATIENCE.
Constitutional heroism is good, but
it does not stand the strain. A pa
thence that fails at the hardest point
is weak all through. Nothing short of
the Christ type of patience will suf-
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THE LITTLE THINGS.
The little rivers and little habits
and little creatures and young days of
faith have a sweetness and nearness
about them we do not feel for him or
it who moves on his way of strength.
Rev. DR.. A. NJ. Campbell, Presby-
terrain, st. Louis.
PROTECTION.
The lives of our fathers were
marked by prayer to God for direc-
ton and protection. The lives of
their children must be characterized
by the same. It means heavens sym
pathy, heavens assistance, heavens
professionalism. w. B. Johnson,
Baptist, Washington.
VIRTUE.
Virtues, genuine virtues, are not acts
of a man, but forces in a man. He
does not put them on; they work out
from within him. A man may tell the
truth, and yet the truth may not be in
him A virtue is never ours until it
gets down into our instincts.-Rev.
Frank Crane, Congregationalist, Wor-
cester, Mass.
ITS BEST DEFENSE.
The best defense of Christianity is to
practice it. The surest way to silence
skepticism is not by. an argument, but
by a man. The atheist who spent a
few days with the sanity Fenelon said:
IF I stay here a few days longer,
shall become a Christian in spite of
myself. Junius B. Remensnyder,
Lutheran, New York.
THE GREATEST AND GRANDEST
THING.
The greatest work that man can put
his hand to is to build a church as a
to God. In erecting Gods
the very stones will continue to make
after he is dead, that there is a God
and that he is eternal and that his
word is truth and life. The grandest
time of life that is allowed him here is
to pay honor to God, to devote himself
wholly to God, to do what in him lies
to make the knowledge of God known
his praise.-Rev. Father Davis S. Phe-
Ian, Roman Catholic, st. Louis.
ALL THINGS INHERITED.
All things are yours Intellectually
ton and discovery. The liberated
thought of the Christian has given to
the world all that is best in the intel
Iectual realm. Christianity has led the
spiritually-the Bible, Divine Provi-
dence, the gifts of the Holy Ghost.
The spiritual lives of all men in all
ages of the world are the heritage of
the church. All things are yours in
point of time-the past with it's his
tory, the present with its resources
and opportunities, the future with it's
hopes and prospects-aH are yours. |
In conclusion, death is yours. To the |
Christian death is not an enemy, but
he messenger of that larger life, the |
iberator of the soul.-Rev. Sam R. |
Hay, Methodist, st. Louis.
CONTROLLING OUR FEELINGS.
No hour of life calls for more care |
With an unpleasant experience. 1t |
would be unreasonable to ask that |
such a thing should not affect our |
ceilings, but it is not unreaSonab BILE to |
ime with great care. Every man
Knows when he is not at his best and /
moving, should school himself into |
he habit of waiting until he Gains
Town before speaking or acting. No /
urgeon would perform an operation
alIing for great care if he had trem-
Hing of hand. No engineer would go
nto his engine to do important duty If
lie had serious trouble with his eyes.
United to do his best, either would
ay at can not do this until I am in
letter condition."
1t should be the same in everyday
lie. If things have gone wrong in the
hice, so that we can not meet the Wis
tor In a pleasant. manly way, we
hould ask him to call at another
ime. If the annoyances of the home
ave been such that when the child
oes wrong we can not administer cor
ection without a show Of temper. we