The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-19

dents. Father James f. Winters ha,
thus been appointed Catholic chaplain
OF Cornell university.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teaching,
| of All Denominations.
Character is consolidated habit. Tc
achleVe you must prepare; to make
| good you must make ready,-Rev. DIR
| Thomas Edward Potterton. Universe !.
| list, Brooklyn.
LIES BEGINNING.
Life does not begin when we com
mence to breathe, but when we learn
then is when we begin to live.-Rey
W. A. Quayle. Methodist, Chicago.
DEVELOPING VIRTUES.
Every virtue when too far developed
degenerates into a vice. Conscientious
ness easily passes into stubbornness
and economy into stinginess. and pru,
dence into cowardice-Rev.C C. E. JEFF
ferson, Baptist, New York
FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD.
A man cannot be stranger when
ua1 life. He has eyes to see the
eternal realities of God and comes
into closer fellowship with him.-Rev.
r G. Sears, Episcopalian, Meridian,
PROPER ALTRUISM.
There is vast difference between
the religion of altruism and the altru-
ism of religion when applied to Chris
t1anity- There can be no proper al
truism without Christianity-Rev w
A. FRYE, Methodist, Lansing, Mich.
TRUTHS RECKONING HAND.
Men find 1T easier to take the path
OF least resistance. But the honest
man will follow the reckoning hand of
true to the promptings of his con-
science. no matter what the world will
say-Ra bbi j. L. Levy Pittsburg, Pa
POWER OF INFLUENCE.
Nothing is SO contagious as in
huence. and If we are strong, true. pa
tient, earnest followers of our Lord
the weak, the tempted and dis
couraged take heart and try again.
When We fight the fight of faith We
fight for all the worId-Rey. Dr..
Joseph Dunn. Presbyterian. BROOKLYN.
CHOOSING LIFE PARTNERS.
What is true of the wife is also true
of the husband. IF we chose our life
partners for their wearing qualities
ana then governed our homes for the
glory of God. we would do much to-
ward solving the divorce problem and
many other problems which touch
and stain our domestic and national
Live Oak Fla.
OUR OWN BUILDING.
Character is mans own building.
Ihere could be no good without oppo-
site or evil no sun without a shadow
Man must be free. He has the power
o. or enoice' which is absolute. The boy
tied to stake cannot do mischief
Neither can he run errands of love and
mercy. Had there been no possibility
of evil there would have been no pow
er OF choice and consequently no
moral power in man-Rev. Dr. John
L. Brandt, Christian church, st. Louis.
TEST OF MANLINESS
The real and unfailing test of man.
illness is fixed purpose to do the
right at all hazards. Physical courage
alone may be possessed in a remark
able degree by the bulldog or the
weasel, but moral courage obtains
only with the highest type of men.
Loyalty to the truth, an abiding con-
v1ction that no man can afford to be
false in any relation of life. is a
quality of true manIiness. This tvpe
of manlfness never squirms, eouivo-
Gates or fawns. When in error it most
frankly confesses to the wrong, but
never compromises the evil. Our genu-
for truthfulness of speech and rectf-
tude of behavior.-Rev T. III. Steph-
ems, Presbyterian, Chicago.
THE SUPREME POSSESSION.
Righteousness is the only thing
worth while in life. He who has it
has all that counts in the end. He
who has it not has missed everything
that justifies the toll and pain of Iiv-
ing, Whatever else he has gained. |
answers the soul, and |
the soul is the great reality. Its voice |
cannot be suppressed: it's hunger is |
Intense. No feeling of body, mind or
heart Will suffice. In the midst of |
all other satisfactions the soul cries |
FOR its portion, and until that cry is
needed there is a sense of incomp lete-
ness that makes everything else seem |
unreal. Righteousness is the supreme |
possession The whole man feels it's
presence and rests content, and thus
becomes it's own reward
The satisfaction which 1t brings ia
he heaven of our longing. 1t means
peace with ourselves and peace with
Tod.-Rev. DR.. A. V. ". RAYMOND |
Schenectady, N. Y. /
HIGH MESSAGES
Above all else the religious life has
lad its most uplifting visions from the
messages which came from heaven to
men on the mountain peaks. In India
was from the shrines high up on the
in Greece it was from the
emple of Olympus; in Egypt, where
here were no mountain peaks, it was
rom the pyramids, the man made
that the high priests of
sis caught the messages of heaven
which they gave forth to the Nile folk
The turning points in the history of
srael, "the chosen people," came
rom the high places set up on the
mountain tops. There Abraham
earned that a man should walk by
aith and not by facts. There Moses
ound Gods law-the Decalogue-the
beet anchor of liberty from that day {
0 this. There on CarmePs peak 1
llijah made the great classic prayer