The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-07
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings OF
All Denomfnations.

All Denominations.
Our ideal of God will become the
real In our life. and our life the true
Language OF our creed.-Rev. DR.. Mad
| ison Q. Peters, Baptist, New York.
SERVING ONES COUNTRY.
You viii best serve your country by
| the integrity of your private lives. Po-
htical life is the reflex of domestic
NE, Tor the stream does not rise above
above its source.-Cardinal James
Gibbons. Roman Catholic, Baltimore,
| Nd.
REAL CHRISTIANS.
Christian life is not conformity to
rules, whether made by apostle or
council or local church. Men cannot
be legislated into sons by either civil
or ecclesiastical enactment. Only a
spirit within. automatic and self-regu-
| lative in all realms, makes US really
when we do not trust ourselves or
when men distrust us. That is the es-
sence of his forgiveness.-Rev. DR.. w.
G. Biting, Baptist, St Louis.
A DREAM WB OUGHT TO DREAM.
Suppose, Christianity were realized.
| Suppose everybody lived Christian
| lives and called, Christianity the truth.
That Is dream. it is true. but one
about which. we ought to dream
| Rev. Charles F. Aked, Baptist, New
York.
| INTELLIGENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
knowledge is power. but growth In
knowledge and growth in grace are not
at all Identical. Intelligence can. be
shown as well by a shrewd schemer or
a polished rogue as in a bank presi-
dent. Education is not merely infor-
mation.-Rev. I. H. Nash, Episcopal
ian, Newark. o.
GREAT IN GODS SIGHT.
Man is greater in his goodness than
he is in anything else in this life;
therefore the man who strives to do
the will of God is greater in his good
ness than the man who wins battles
on the field. If We wish to be great
in the sight of God, let us try to fol-
low in his 70 otsteps.-Rev. A. p. Meal
lister, Universalist. Riverside. Cal.
CHURCH INFLUENCE.
Every church carries, the gospel
message by its every outward. appear
ance and speaks to every heart OF Its
divine purpose. The mere sight of
men, women or children going or re-
turning from church or Sunday school
gives its message to the heart and de-
clares something that we will find in
the great sermon the Saviour uttered.
Rev. G. o. Jones, Meth edist, At
lanta, Ga
LIFE'S VALUE.
Every life has a threefold value-a
value in itself and for itself, a value
in its relations and for society, a value
in its destiny and for God. These can
not be separated in any life, but they
must be appreciated in their separate
in their completeness. Life's value is
in itself. No life is simply means to
an end. Every life is an end in itself.
in itself a purpose of God and a plan
of Godfrey. DR.. John F. Carson,
Presbyterian, Brooklyn
CHRISTIAN LIES TRUE NOTE.
Being a Christian man is being all
man can be. Holiness is near kin to
haleness, which means health, and
haleness close kin to Wilderness, which
means integrity, soundness, complete
ness. Christian life is not giving up,
but growing up; not looping off, but
looming uD. Its true note is not as
celtic, but athletic, and when Christ an
nounced that he came that men might
have life more abundantly he did not
mean longer life, but life overlooking,
rich in content and extent. with far
horizons and wide outiook-Rev. F.
Brooklyn.
FACING OUR DUTY.
Only a coward runs away from duty.
If you have committed a sin, walk
right in and confess it, and your life
will be clean of that sin and you Will
be strengthened. I tell you, most peo-
pie about facing their duty are like
young mare from the country who
SHES when she sees a street car and
runs and Frances until the master
leads her right up to the car by the
bit, and the FLY is not afraid any
more. The devil keeps you scared
about your duty all the time, ana the
best thing for you to do Is to come
right up and look it in the face. Don't
be afraid; 1t won't kill you.-Rev. DR..
s. Edward Young, Presbyterian, Pitts
burg.
GODS GLORY IN THE FACE.
You will see a great deal of the
glory of God in the face of woman
when her face is willing to let its sec
ret lie in the open-the face or Wo-
man that has gone a way long enough
to have had her face shaped little by
the things she herself has. done and
by the life she herself has lived. My
conviction is that there are not many
things on earth or in heaven SO beau
tifui as a woman's look when life mas
a chance to shine it's way through.
Sometimes have seen woman bend
over the bed of somebody asleep, ana
had no thought no thought at all, or
how she herself was, of how she her-
self looked, bending over the bed OF
somebody asleep, smoothing Pillow
rearranging a tangled lock or nalr'
picking the head partly up with mucn
care so as to get a chance to hug the
sick body little without seeming 70
hug 1t at all. If you ever saw that
you saw a face which wore the re-
fulgent look of the love unspeakaDie
of God. The glory of God was IN IT,
because II was a glory of love.-ReV.
William A Quayle, Methodist, Chi
| cago.
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