The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05

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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
AS the potter uses the clay to make
shapes of beauty, SO we are to use
| the present world.-Rev. w. R
Breed. Episcopalian, Lancaster, Pa.
SAD FEATURE OF MODERN LIFE
One of the sad things about the
strenuous life of the present age is
that man 10 turned into a machine
Rev. DR.. Daniel H. Martin, Congrega-
tionalist, Newark. N. ].
| PURITY.
] The broken harp may be repaired
| but a flower crushed never can be
restored to what 1t was before. Such
a flower is purity-Rev. DR.. Madison
| c. Peters, Baptist, New York.
CONDUCT AND THOUGHT.
Thought means conduct. What you
do depends upon what you think.
Conduct is first in the mind, after
ward in the body.-Rev. DR.. Frank
Oliver Hall, Universalist, New York.
GATES TO HE'LL
Books are often gates to hell. and
many of the popular novels OF the day
which strike at the Bible and the
church should be burned.--Rev. A. c..
Dixon. Baptist, Roxbury. Mass.
ONE NEEDS THE OTHER.
Music needs religion, and religion
needs music; God has Joined them to-
gether, and what God has Joined to-
gether let not man put asunder.-
York.
Intellectual culture and develop
ment may point out to man the avoid
ance OF evil, but they do not necessar-
lily develop character, and that is
what counts.-Rev. D. J. O'Sullivan.
Roman Catholic, st. Adams, VT
LIFE'S MISSION.
The Industry of the violet seed is to
gather up the universal rain and SUM-
shine and send these out again in the
beauty and fragrance Of it's flower
That is the mission of every l1fe-to
gather into itself all that the ages
have and give it all out again in the
usefulness of its own life.-Rev. DR..
John F. Carson, Presbyterian, Brook
1yn.
THE SOULS GROWTH.
The body reaches its limit about the
twenty-fifth year, the mind it's merid-
ian about the f1ftieth, but the growth
of the soul continues with the eldest
saint and in the next world IS cnang-
ed from glory to glory and continues
the redeemed soul stands but little
lower than God.-Rev. w. ]. Thomp-
son, Methodist, Brooklyn:
MAIN PILLARS OF STATE.
Intelligence and integrity are two
main pillars of the state. Intelligence
without integrity results in rascality,
integrity without intelligence ends in
bigotry, and we must shun eacn as
the mortal enemy of man. we learn
integrity in the temple Of religion; we
gain Intelligence in the hall of learn
ing. In this two fold provision we
find the sure salvation Of the state.
Buttressed by such bulWarks. she mas
no nnisgiving.-Rev. Dr. .WllIlam M
NO VIRTUE IN MISERY.
We pray God to forgive our sins
We ought to pray to be forgiven our
sadness. There is no virtue in misery
The melancholy person is not neces-
sarily a superior person, and II ne
were the superior person is generally
detestable. A face as long as hddle
and a. voice like crows Will not pc
imputed to US for righteousness. we
shall not go to heaven for our tears
or TO hell for our smiles. Humor is
gift of God as we'll as pathos.-Rev.
DIR Charles r. Aked, Baptist, New
York.
More neople fail to achieve their
worthy ambitions because they cultf-
vate wrong mental habits than Tor
any other cause whatever. Llfe Is run
of splendid opportunities for the man
who will seize them, and all the forces
of the universe help on the man
whose mind dwells in faith and cour-
age and confidence and indomitable
hope, and all the forces Of the uni
verse set against the man who dWells
in a. mental atmosphere of doubt and
despondency, suspicion of himself and
his fellow men.-Rev. DIR. Frank Oil
yer Hall, Universalist, New York.
GOD AND FATHERHOOD.
Thinking about God should be
hued by the thought of fatherhood-
Repentance is coming back to the
father; faith is chi1d's trust in a
father; prayer is communion with
father; providence is fathers care;
life is doing the will of a father; dy-
ing is going to the fathers house. We
ing the idea of God out of the
abattoir and shambles and delivering
it from the law court, where only the
criminal and the lawyer could under
stand it. and telling US to sit by the
and mediate God out of
our own hearts. Every true parent
discovers God in his own bosom and
interprets God to his children,-Rev.
DR.. w. c. Biting, Baptist, st. Louis.
ECCENTRIC AND THE GENIUS.
The genius judges not only the So
cia1 fitness of his thought for today,
but for tomorrow. His social sense
outruns the social sense of other men.
He differs from other men as the log
raft travelling faster than the current
on which it floats. differs from the
swimmer who battles UP stream. The
latter is soon beaten by the opposi-
ton; the former outruns its ally. The
eccentric runs counter to the social
but the genius leads society
to his own point of view and discerns
the necessities of society progress SO
perfectly that he Is willing to await
recognition, to suffer Imprisonment |
and death for truths sake. knowing |
that vindication will come in those far |
off children Of the brain who shall
push the planet toward the goals of |
DR.. Daniel Russell, Pres |
byterian, Pittsburg. i
Bible Study.