The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-13

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Thy best type,-desire
| OF the sad heart,-the heaven-ascend-
ing spire.-Sir E. B. Lytton.
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| Every moderate drinker could
would; every inebriate would if he
could.-John B. Cough.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
Religion is not the end of life. It is
is usefulness and happiness.-Rev. Guy
A. Jameson, Episcopalian, Tottenville,
N. Y.
TRUE PATRIOTISM
That love of country alone is true pa
triotism that is founded on knowledge
and supported by great principle and
great character-Rabbi Joseph Kraus-
kopf, Philadelphia.
YOUR LIFE HERE WILL TELL.
The Christian life is not abnormal,
and the heavenly life is not unreal. Be
this side Of the grave what you hope
to be the other side.-Rev. DR.. c. D.
Case, Baptist. Buffalo.
VISION OF CHRIST.
If you have a vision Of Christ you
cannot rest until you do things for him,
until you confess him before mankind
and ask others to belong to tim.-Rev
DR.. s. Edward Young, Presbyterian,
Pittsburg.
FELLOWSHIP.
The church is the expression of the
highest form of fellowship Men never
touch so closely as in common worship
For this reason "the gates Of hell shall
| not prevail against it.'-Rev. DR.. Frank
Crane, Congregationalist, Worcester,
Mass.
THE HOUR OF PRAYER.
There is no life so surrounded, SO
high. so holy. so full of habitual COM
munion with God, so full of pure and
holy thought, that 1t can afford to do
without the hour of prayer, the secret
place. the uttered word.-Rev. A w.
H. Holder. Baptist, Brooklyn.
RANGE OF THE GOSPEL.
Like the air Of heaven. which
ascends the highest mountain and de-
sends down to the deepest valley,
everywhere purifying the face Of ma
ture, the gospel permeates every rank
and grade of society, diffusing every
where a healthy moral atmosphere
Cardinal Gibbons, Roman Catholic
Baltimore.
PLEDGE OF REVELATION.
When we seek to know God and to
love him and to make our lives as eff
fective as possible in doing good as the
success for which we aim. then we
have the pledge Of Revelation. which
| is the promise of God himself that no
| failure can attend us.-Rev Hiram
Vrooman, New Jerusalem Church,
| Providence, r. I.
PLEASURE.
Pleasure should not be DESTROYED
| neither should austerity be substituted
| Tor amusement, but there should be OBJ
| portunity afforded for the widest en-
1oyment of our natural instincts and
| emotions under conditions that will
preserve the highest welfare of all
| Rev. DR.. William White Wilson. Epis-
| copalian Chicago.
| THE CHIEF CRITIC.
God is the greatest critic Of all. IT is
he who by his providence shapes both
the heavens and the earth in order that
the things which cannot be shaken
sees God shake off from religion some
elements or ideals which were not vi
| tai to 1t, and everything that can he
shaken must surely fall away.-Rev.
l.. M. Clarke, Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
| SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
| The note of the hour is social re.
! sponsibility. We are coming to sef
that society is an organism and thai
| no man can live unto himself. Selfish.
ness Is suicidal both with regard to the
Individual and the organization. The
Wnole OF human society must ulti-
mately go up or down together. Yor
cannot win without the cooperation o.
your employer. nor can he succeed
without you. The need of the hour i.
for a coming together, not a gettinr
farther apart.-Rev. DR.. Charles Bay
ard Mitchell, Methodist, Cleveland q
THE BEST CONSCIOUSNESS
Self consciousness makes the who'll,
man i'll. God consciousness makes tn,
| whole man well. The one is beins
tied up to the world with its friction
its worry, it's qualification, it's diseas,
and death. The other opens us up t.
the universal. the eternal, filling u.
with a sense of it's largeness and T,ov
ancy, wherein is all good cheer and
health. The one shuts us up in thu
cellar of or discomfort wbora ~. -