The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-14
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations

| EGEuANI1OOS If1OOOhl.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
The secret of prosperity, the de-
velopment and maintenance of man
hood or womanhood is trust in God
| Rev. John F. Goucher, Methodist
Baltimore.
SUCCESSFUL WORK.
The man who works with God is
sure of success because his work is
permanent and he builds feeling sure
his plans will go through.-Rev.
Thomas Knox, Presbyterian, Aurora,
Ill
BE FREE OF EVIL.
The persons who are most ready to
suspect others of impropriety are the
ones who are themselves improper.
The freer we are from evil ourselves
the less inclined will we be to think
evil Of others.-Rev. w. A. Crawford
Frost, Episcopalian, Baltimore.
LEARNING FROM CHRIST.
1t is astonishing how few things are
worth knowing that are not learned
from Christ. What do we know about
from, how we ought to behave our
selves and where we are going-that
we did not learn from him Rev.
DR.. Hanks. Baptist, Ell Paso, Tex.
SELF CONFIDENCE.
Faith in himself is a necessity for
any young man. He should not pity
himself nor allow any one else to do
SO, but with the knowledge that God
is on his side and that he does right
he should be able to face all life's bat
Ties bravely.-Rev. w. L. Rutledge,
Methodist, London, Canada.
KNOWLEDGE.
A little knowledge breeds doubt. An
infant knows everything. A youth
finding himself deceived is skeptical
and knows nothing. Maturity becom-
ir1cr -nhn nd L. q
thing. Full manhood discovers it can
know enough for practical life.-Rev.
N. D. Hills, Congregationalist, Brook
Ign.
INSUFFICIENT PROSPERITY.
Mere material prosperity has never
government. Moral courage, honesty,
liberal education and a healthy sense
of religion are of greater Importance
in our national life than big crops,
tories or extensive railways.-Rev.
John G.. Scott, Episcopalian. Hot
Springs. Va.
AIM OF CHRISTIANITY.
The aim and end of the Christian
religion are not weakness and ineff1-
grown man. The best of the Roman
ideal. physical strength; Of the Greek
ideal, mental culture; of the Hebrew
ideal, justice, is taken, welded to-
SeIner ana summed Dy a CnrlSIlke
character. And that ideal man is not
self developed, but formed and fash |
toned by Christ himself.-Rev. George
r. Edmundson, Presbyterian. Denver.
BELIEF IN HUMAN NATURE.
beTayed on ali i SIDES than
to lose your confidence or belief in hu-
PeeEe IN d aSgn IN IN G 5sGE
slumbers In the heart OF every human be-
ing. Hold yourself, to your own best self
ND
in love and service for the joys that are |
set before you BY ChEist;ERev. DR.. c. F.
LIVING WITHOUT GOD.
How many there are who live as If
there was, no obligations to God what !
no God. and yet they are all the while |
living or the very God they ignore. with |
heart they h are t not WICKED. And yet they
are all the while living in open Violation
it is a question whether they walk at all /
with God.--Rev. L. M. Zimmerman, Luth-
eran. Baltimore.
FUNCTIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN.
The greatest problem for the Christian
man is to adjust himself to the callings
serve Cod. his Fellow men and the highest
interests of his own soul. Instead of
God leaves US here that we may perfect
personal holiness, working out our own
that we may win the world to our new
found 9 nd King in These are the two , funetions
for his people to engage IN the ordinary
vocations of this world that they may
earn an honest living and at the same
time show forth to the world the saving
and keeping power of Jesus Christi
Rev. DR.. Curtis Lee Laws, Baptist,
Brooklyn.
VALUE OF CARING FOR BOYS.
Take care of the boys and you take
care of the future of civilization. Greet
the bow and you salute the glory of to-
Put your arms around the boys
and you embrace the dawning Of a COM
ing day. Speak Kindly to the boys and
you put heart and hope and inspiration
into coming moral movements that are
to revolutionize the conditions of future
society. Discourage a boy and you de-
press state. Strike a boy in temper with
word or blow and you produce discord in
boy and you take melody from a song.
Whatever we do through our relations to
the boys is recorded in their spirits and
will be clearly seen in days to come Let
US educate the boys if we have to mort
gage our lands to do 1t. They will pay l.
the mortgages off a thousand times over
in the next generation. Let us stint our
selves at every point except in the invest
ments we make in the education of our
children. To be skinny and meager there
is to lock in darkness the thought and
gratitude necessary to keep our graves
green when are gone.-Rey. DR.. James
W. Lee. Methodist Atlanta, Ga
BIBLE STUDY. VII