The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-25

Be it the slightest contact-get there
from
kindly thought.
One bit Of courage for the darkening
sky. Anon.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
Without prayer in your heart you
cannot make that life worth what
God is expecting of it-Rev. B. J..
Newman, Unitarian, Brooklyn.
NEIGHBORS.
He is our neighbor who is in need
of neighborly care and love as
exemplif1ed in the life work Of Christ.
Rev. c. w. Webb. Baptist. Aurora,
Ill.
GREAT DISCOVERY.
We have made great discovery
when we have discovered that we do
not have to sin.-Rev. DIR. Frank
Crane, Congregationalist, Worcester,
Mass.
NEVER FAILS
1t is love that counts. Wisdom. phi
1Osophy and science may fail and
break down. but love never falls
Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, Evangelist,
Hartford. Conn.
YOUTHFUL RESPONSIBILITIES
Your body and soul and brain as
they shall be in the thirties and
forties cannot help themselves.
Vandenburg. Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
SUICIDAL BUSINESS.
That business. however remunera-
tive it may be. which takes all ones
time and leaves no opportu atty Tor
the culture and growth of the soul is
eternally suicidal.-Rev. Charles Bay
ard Mitchell, Methodist, Cleveland, o.
LIFE'S WATCHWORDS
Life is not speculative. 1t has to
do with stern things. Its great watch
words are love, duty, service, and the
humblest have opportunities for
these, and with these is the character
attained that God approves.--Rev. M.
A. Breed, Congregationalist. Month
cello, Ia.
CHURCH'S GREATEST NEED.
The greatest need of the church to-
day is consecrated young manhood to
the front, not young manhood whose
only claim is intellectually, but
young manhood in pulpit and pew
Rev. DR.. Milton J. Sloppy, Methodist
Episcopalian, Pittsburg.
WIDENERS OF CREATION.
Wealth, health. faith and life have
their revelations like the sunshine,
and bird. But poverty, doubt, sick
ness and death. like the night, let in
the host of heaven and widen crea-
ton till it reaches the fiery margin
Of infinity.-Rev. DR.. T. Calvin Nc
Clelland, Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
MORALS OF SPENDING MONEY.
To fulfill his duty to society a man
Of wealth should keep his personal
expenditures as low as possible and
make his benefactions and philan-
thropies as large as possible. He
should further. to the extent of his
pecuniary power, the advancement of
the arts, charity, moral culture and
public service Then he may know
that his life has been lived simply and
happily.-Rabbi Samuel Schulman,
New York.
A PERPETUAL IDEAL.
Hero worship can not be eradicated
from humanity. 1t is we'll that it is
heroes in history as definite ideals. 1t
is a great thing to have also some liv-
ing heroes as great ideals of our daily
lives. But, above all, it is supremely
minds the Divine Master as a per-
petual ideal: Looking up to him. we
grow toward God.-Rev. Oliver Huck-
ell, Congregationalist, Baltimore.
HOW TO KNOW GOD.
Self hath many things to say, many
and he who listeneth to the voice Of
self can never know God because he
maketh no room in his life for the
Son Of God. But he who thrusteth
self out altogether, who counteth MOTH
ing in comparison with the need of
to him power is given to become a son
of God. Let self go out and God come
in; then shall you have power to be-
come son of God.-Rev. Canon John
P. Peters, d. D., Episcopalian, New
York.
TEMPLE OF THE SOUL.
The noblest material edif1ce that
ever was erected by the hand of man.
from Solomon's temple down to st.
Peters basilica in Rome, is but a
perishable monument compared to the
temple of the soul when it is illumin.
ated with the light of faith and adorn-
ed with the Jewels of virtue. Even the
temple of nature itself is as inferior
in grandeur to the temple of the soul
as matter is inferior to spirit and as
time is to eternity, for when the great
vault of nature shall be demolished,
when the stars shall fade away and
the sun grow dim with years, even
then the temple of the soul will live
and move and have its being.-Cardi-
nal Gibbons. Roman Catholic, Balti-
more.
NATIONAL SAFEGUARDS.
The safeguards of the nation are
first of all the Christian homes. AS
the nation is made up of homes, we
must guard well the hreSlde. 1t is a
mistake to put a man into congress
with three wives and a lot of others
into prison for having two wives. We
must preserve the sanctity of the
home if we would place safeguards
about our nation. We must also pre-
serve the Christian church, for right
eousness exalteth nation. The
church, rightly understood and rightly
established, is the poor mans best
friend. for it was established by him
who in his teachings, in his practice,
in everything, was a friend of the
meek and lowly. So the church is con-
corned for the poor, the aged, the or
phan and suffering humanity as we'll
as for the salvation of mankind every
where for ultimate glory. We need to
fortify our cities against all forces and
tendencies which tend to overthrow