The Topeka state journal., 1908-05-23
! RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teaching
of An Denominations.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of An Denominations.
Seeing Jesus Christ is taking first of
| all a look into your own heart and
| then a look at him.-Rev. DR.. 3. Ed
| ward Young, Presbyterian, P1ttsburg.
ONE OF LIFE'S SUPREMEST ARTS.
One supremest art of life is to make
people feel comfortable when they
William A. Quayle. Methodist, Chi
ACHIEVEMENT OF SUCCESS.
That suDtIest lesson and most impor-
tant art called success islearned prin-
cipally by making mistakes.-Rev Dr..
Frank Crane. Congregationalist. Wor-
TEMPTATION.
A man who walks uprightly and
takes a firm stride in the path of life
does not feel so susceptible to tempta-
/ tions, because he has moral strength.
Rev. G.. f. Miller. Episcopalian.
| Brooklyn.
RESPECrTABIIITY AND SPTRTTU-
The respectabilfties hold more men
UP than do the spiritualities. but were
there no spirituality today the respec-
| liability of tomorrow would faiL-Rev.
DR.. Frank Crane, Congreg list,
Worcester, Mass.
/ DEMAND FOR WORKERS.
| The greatest need Of the church to-
day is workers fer the Lord. We need
Christians who will come In and go
| to werk and not sit down and com
plain about some one not making
| them welcome.-Rev. s. w. Smith,
Baptist, Providence. r. I:
WHEN HAPPINESS COMES.
| True happiness only comes when the
gifts of nature are guided and check
ed by mind and morals, When mind
and body and heart In their due pro-
portion work in harmony then happi-
ness comes, and not until them
Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Chicago
HUMAN RACE HORSES.
The people of today should learn
/ lesson from the commandment to tarry
in prayer and communion. Life is be-
ing spent too rapidly. Speed seems to
be the great motto today, but we
should not be race horses on the track
of 1ife.-Rev. E. L. Powell, Christian
Church, Louisville, KY.
| FOE OF SOCIETY.
| The man who for a consideration vio-
/ lates a law to benefit one set of men
today will violate it tomorrow to in
jure that same set of men, provided 1t
is profitable for him to do so. When
/ you have corrupted a man you have
made him. a foe to soeiety-Rev. G. B.
Vosburgh, Baptist, Denver.
/ TO KNOW GOD. '5'
4 We may come to know God by
fstudyfng the facts and events of the
a man throws light on his character,
so each event and fact of nature
sheds some light on the character of
God. To say this is easy enough, but
to feel it is to find ones life made sub
IHme.-Rev. A. g. Singsen, Methodist,
fProvidence, r. I.
Il PRACTICAL CHURCH WORK.
I The doctrine of the fatherhood of
IGod and the brotherhood of man is
grandly true, but when man is
1,A he
la plank. The only church that will
be alive a century hence will be the
Il one that furnishes both warmth for
the heart and work for the hands. The
hour has come for the church to cease
trying to save herself and try to save
the world.-Rev. A. e. Bartlett, Pres
byterian. Chicago.
+ VICTORY OVER OUR MOODS. I:
4 Dark is the world to thee: tf1yse1f
art the reason why. Whoever would
, life must achieve the victory over his
moods, and the most heartening Tnes<
sage of this or any age is that by Our
. God given endowment of the will it Is
possible for us to give to the deeper
life Of the soul the suggestions Of
courage and faith and patience and
Istrength, which altogether mean eter-
lnaI life-Rev. Lewis r. Reed, Com
gregationalist, Brooklyn 4.---3l[s- =.
i SUPREME END OF LIVING.
t The most potent force in the world
, is character. This world is Gods
. workshop, and one of the products of
his activity is man. The supreme
thing which confronts every one is
not the making Of a living, difficult as
THAT problem sometimes seems to be,
tbut the supreme thing confronting ev-
cry Individual is the making of a life.
To live is the supreme function of
the creature To make a character,
to be formed into permanent modes of
j. being, is the supreme end Of living
Rev. j. Benjamin Lawrence, Baptist,
New Orleans.
THE VIRGIN SOIL.
Where is the human soil for rich
est spiritual results? It is often in vir-
gin soil. David Livingstone opened
J the map of the world, and he saw it in
) Africa. DR. Duff opened the map Of
the world, and he saw It in India. Fa-
ther Damien opened the map of the
, world, and he saw 1t in Mo1okai. Mar
} Gus Whitman opened the map OF the
world, and he saw 1t among the Nez
Perces Indians. William Booth open
} ed the map of the world, and he saw
1t among the slums Of the English
cities. You and open the map of the
world and we see-what? The people
who need the gospel the most are the
people who are in the most abject
physical, mental and spiritual want
The more man and q woman are So