The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-20

Ii SOOQ p0Oplt WOulQ MAKE IQGlI
goodness agreeable, and smile in
stead of frowning in their virtue, how
many would they win to the good
cause!-Archbishop Usher.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
Man is strong only as he uses the
forces of nature, as steam and elec-
tricity. He is good only as he uses the
forces of God.-Rev. DR.. Frank
Crane, Congregationalist. Worcester.
Mass.
ARCHITECT OF LIVES
To become a great engineer means
much. but it is easy compared with
becoming a great architect of lives.
A great preacher must know life. He
cannot be a surface student.-Rabbi
Emil G. Hirsch, Chicago.
LIFE'S IMPRESSIONABGE PERIOD
Destiny hinges on the first ten
golden years. Then the young life is
like clay in the hands of the potter
you can write on it what you like
and as it hardens your message is
indelible.-Rev N. w Waters, Congre-
gationalist, Brooklyn.
ESSENTIALS OF GOOD BUSINESS.
A good business must have three
striking characteristics. 1t must add
to the good of our fellow men; it
must enlist pure and honest en-
engages in it.-Rev Charles Bayard
Mitchell, Methodist, Cleveland, O..
VALUABLE ASSETS.
America and religion are two of the
most valuable assets in our spiritual
and political life. 1t were ten thou
sand pities if. by the failure of those
who claim to love both of them,
aif har Ch al ta Doh lr>
j. Leonard Levy, Pittsburg.
TO OVERCOME FAULTS.
The best way to overcome negative
faults is to bring to bear upon them
positive virtues. Our sins of omission
may be as great a hindrance to our
living the Christian life as our sins of
commission. Our bad habits may best
be overcome by seeking to form good
ones-Rev. Guy A. Jameson, Episco-
palian, Tottenville, N. Y.
GENIUS AND GOD.
Genius is more than the usual
amount of God in one man, and a
man so richly endowed needs a larger
degree of divine dependence If a
genius will not depend upon God and
refuses to take faith and humility as
the controlling forces he speedily
flies to pieces as would a mighty Cor
liss engine without a steady governor.
Rev. DR.. Charles Edward Locke,
Method1St, Brooklyn.
INTEREST IN MARRIAGE.
Society has an interest in the mar
riage of all persons as well as the
persons contracting the marriage in
both the quality of the persons enter
ing the marriage state and the man
ner in which the ceremony is per-
formed. and the church has the right
to regulate the manner in which the
marriages are performed as the state
onfc
Smith, Roman Catholic, Chicago
A BEAUTIFUL WAY
Christianity is not straightjacket.
1t is beautiful garment. 1t is not
set of stocks to bind the unwilling
feet of a headstrong fool who would
rush down steep place to his own
destruction. 1t is a beautiful way
leading upward to all largeness of life
and breadth of vision, way for which
mems feet were made and which they
must ever feel after Christianity is
not CALLING yoke upon. the neck of
one who would balk or run away In
the face of lifes duty 1t is a scepter
for mans hand, who should be ruler in
royal fashion over the kingdoms uf
time and sense.-Rev. Boyd Edwards
Congregationalist, Brooklyn.
MASTERING OURSELVES.
The struggle for self mastery is the
secret Of individual fate. Victory OF
oS1edl, SdlNdllOu OF ndnSS on the
issue. This is the temptation that puts
every man, woman and youth to ths
[ test to tell of what moral stuff they
| are made. To gain this self control re-
quires sharp fight against our lower
nature, and success can alone be wor
with the help of God. Here religion
offers her supreme aids-prayer, the
Bible and the church. with her uplifi
| to heavens altar. A perilous and Won
derful course is that before every SOU
life on earth, with Its dangers and
| triumphs, and then the spirits f1ighi
amid the stars. And the first requisite
| for this great venture is self mastery
that thou hast thyself, body and spirit
all thy powers and forces, under wise
and firm control.-Rev. ]. B. Remen
| snyder Lutheran, New York.
| HEALTH'S DEPENDENCE ON THE
| SOUL.
| God is the soul of the sprtngtime
and God is health, no less than joy and
peace and love. We think sometime
, of health as applying only to our phys
| ical natures, but 1T is not so. Health
| is the result of the normal funct1on1nl
| of the entire body. The roots OF dis
| ease reach farther back than the mus
cles and nerves of the body. The dis
eases of the body doubtless affect tn
| health of the soul, but infinitely NOR
does health in the soul make 70
health in the body. Mans essentia
4 lie lndI WHICH QStclIiil tAC lACditA
| is like the life of the universe, a spirit
ual entity. The diseases Of the bod,
may be cured with drug, but the.
| can only be adequately healed by tn
spiritual remedies. With health in tn
soul the most stubborn diseases weak
en- and lose their hold, for in the las
analysis health is the proper function
ing of the spiritual faculty in man
nature, by which the impulses an,
| powers of sense are made subservien
and obedient to enlightening mora
purpose, becoming auxiliary to the di
vine" Every advance to a larger truth
to the appreciation of fairer beaut,
and to the practice of a more perfec
rule of life. is an advance toward th
standard of the universal mind, towart