The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Determinations.
Real love is not the feeling that
seeks to receive pleasure. but that
which seeks to give pleasuFe.-Rev.
| DR.. Frank Crane, Congregationalist,
SPARK OF GoDHooD.
There is a spark of Godheod left
In everybody. The meanest man on
earth has a divine spot in him.-ReV.
DR.. S. Edward Young. Presbyterian,
Pittsburg.
CHIEF CLERICAL FUNCTION.
The chief function of the preacher
food. of which the Bible contains such
exhaustless abundance.-Rev. r, f.
Hubert, Methodist. Burlington, Ia.
NO USE FOR GROSSNESS.
Refinement turns away from gross
ness. but does not indulge in unmanly
DR.. Madison c. Peters. Baptist. New
York.
SURFACE RELIGION.
Too much of our religion is on the
We are satisfied with a mud hut when
we might have a palace.
Smith, English Evangelist.
WHAT TRUTH WILL DO.
truth Will endDle US 10 take OH the
corruptible and put on the incorrupt1-
BILE, make us free and put a new song
in our mouths.-Rev. J. H. Accove,
Methodist, Boston.
BEWARE OF FAUET-FINDING.
Healthy criticism is one thing, but
ceaseless fault finding and a TRADE of
abuse that kills reverence and breeds
lawlessness is another thing-ReV. G.
B. Vosburgh, Baptist, Denver.
LOVE IN THE HOME.
&c khof fC h
ished on the basis of love, and no
home can be a home, however attrac-
tive or comfortable or abundant it's
material environment, where love is
not the regnant principle, the unifying
hond.-ReV. William c, Stimson, Re-
formed, New York.
UNITY OF NATIONS.
We are recognizing today as never
before perhaps that we are members
one of another and debtors one to an
otherI that neither languages nor GUS
toms, widely as they may vary, inter-
fere with the strange oneness of the
community of nations--Rev. X. B.
Upper. Baptist. philadelphia.
LOVE
Love is supposed to be a very sim
pie, garden thing; as matter of fact
it is so hard to attain that few have
the courage to try it; so slow of growth
that few persevere to learn it, and so
rare that few even know what it is
when they see it-Rev. DR.. Frank
Crane. Congregauonalist. Worcester,
Mass.
THE MINISTRY OF PAIN.
Christ teaches the race that pain
has a ministry; that men often come
through pain as means of promotion
to higher spiritual attachments. even
as Joseph passed through a prison on
the way to promotion. Pain teaches
men tho evanescence of this world
Rev. A. G. Smither. Disciple. Los An
ReleS. Cal.
WHERE THERE IS NO SCHEMTNG.
Heaven is fixed stable, immutable.
1t is safe. If a treasure or fortune Is
accumulated there, that fortune or
treasure is safe. always. On earth
there are always scheming individuals
ready and waiting to get other peoples
treasures. In heaven all are honest.
There is no scheming. All is safe and
pure and holy.-Rev. J. G. Baldwin,
Lutheran. Akron, o.
LUCK AND PEDIGREE.
Every life saved and every work
done has somewhere its sufficient ex-
PLANTATION. God has never yet permit
ted an accident in his world Every
deed has its pedigree. SO much pro-
ducing energy in the cause means SO
much energy in the effect. There is no
such thing as luck. Every life has It's
pedigree.9Rey; r. A: MeBadden'
THE DISCIPLES AS OUR GUIDES.
We might as well elothe ourselves In
seamless robes and. like our Lord,
have no dwelling place on earth that
we can call home as to take one char
acteristie of his life or one particular
doctrine of the gospel and make that
the sole end and aim or our. lives.
Jesus disciples were closer to him
than anybody else. They are believed
to have known what he wanted them
to do. They ought to be our guides
Rev. Frederick z. Hopkins, Congrega-
tionaiist, Chicago.
WHERE TO READ MAN AS HID IS. |
What man really is in his secret
heart appears most clearly under his |
own roof tree, at his own dinner table |
and f1reside. In the street, shop or |
market his real self is often hidden I'M
der Company manners. But in his |
home company manners go into the |
dark closet with his dress coat. while |
the real man gets photographed and |
his principles published. Guests and |
children do not fail to md him out and /
read him as he is.-Rev. Rush r. |
shippen, Unitarian, Atlanta. Ga.
WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS.
The essential doctrine of Christian
ity is that God will help men to be |
righteous if they will accept him. |
is help to the wrongdoer.
The doctrine that there are three per-
sons in one God is no essential part I
Of Christianity. What is essential is
that we worship no longer at the altar
Of an unknown God. Paganism had /
said "God Is righteous and he de-
mands righteousness of his children,
and that is aH.'' The doctrine of
Christ is, "God not only demands
but will help his chill