The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-12
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems CLEANED From the Teachings of
/ All Denominations.
Life without a definite port at the
end, life unthrilled and unfed by the
Father, life unsanctified, however
sleek, is the veriest failure.-Rev.
/ DIR. George Clarke Peck, Methodist
Episcopal, New York.
| LESSON FROM POLITICS.
The problem of politics in the final
analysis is the individual voter. This
is the secret of successful method in
Christian work, getting at the indi-
yidual man.-Rev. James j. Dunlop,
Presbyterian, Roxbury, Mass.
ART OF LIVING.
| The greatest art in the world is the
art of living. The greatest thing in
| living is in knowing how to get along
| with other people. The highest state
of happiness can only come from the
| most perfect companiOnship.-Re
/ w. w. BASTARD, Baptist, Boston.
| KNOWING GOD.
| We know because we believe. Thus
it is in our attitude toward God. No
| one of US has ever seen him, yet we
trust him and have faith in him. We
| know him by faith, not knowledge
Rev. T. P. Thurston, Episcopalian,
| Minneapolis.
KNOWING LIFE.
No man knows life who has not
| been quickened intellectually, made
sensitive to every human need about
him, conquered the beast within him
and been thrilled with a great love Of
| divine beauty.-Rev. DR.. Edwin H.
Delk, Lutheran. Philadelphia.
SPREADING THE GOSPEL.
| A wonderful change would be
wrought in the world if those who
knew the joy of being followers of
| Christ would go forth and tell it to
each one they met. The world would
soon realize that the Christian life
was a vital matter and would be
changed.-Rev. ]. w. Baer, Presby-
| terrain, Brooklyn.
TRUE FAITH.
He that has the true faith must.
| first, be able to give a reason for that
/ faith; second, desire that others share
il, and, thirdly, by comparison with
| over others in the blessedness and ex-
] cellence of its virtues and fits influence
/ and power for the larger number of
the people in the world.-Rev. Maui
rice Ruben, Baptist, Pittsburg.
| KINGDOM OF THE HEAVENS.
Jesus came to bring ''the kingdom
of the heavens" We shall have this
kingdom when we learn sky lives-to
love as royalty as sunsets, to trust as
purely as stars, to order our society
and government as smoothly as the
punctual planets and to suffer as
summer storms which leave the
| landscape breathing freshness behind
lthem.-Rev. DIR. Frank Crane, Con-
gregationalist, Worcester, Mass.
lSACREDNESS OF SMALL THINGS.
We should realize the sacredness
OF small things which we ignore or
despise-the deed that uplifts, al
though 1t is unheralded; the word
that inspires, although uttered so gem
thy that your neighbors do not hear
it; the hand clasp which puts your
brother firmly on his feet without
public applause. Hence the small
things dare not be despised by those
of us who wish to rise to higher
things.-Rev. Abram S. Isaacs, He
brew, Paterson, n. J.
EFFECTIVE PRAYER
PRAYER to be b true prayer must s9ps
everything to the viii of God. 1t is only
when you are in accord with his viii that
ness. When you have squared your life
with Gods laws, then you viii have con
receive. why7 Because he has put his
wishes in you, so when you ask you ask
only for those things agreeable to his will,
Edward Young. Presbyterian, Brooklyn
FAITH AND PRAYER.
Faith is the passive attitude of the soul
where we surrender ourselves to 1t AM ana
ter of the soul and letting the heavenly
image impress itself on the place. Days
Temptations will fix it there. The image
stays forever when once so fixed Prayer
is the attitude of the man by which he
contemplates his own best self and for the
moment surrenders himself to that 1t
molds in clay the clay which by chisel
and hammer is to be carved IN the marble
real.-Rev Ulysses G. B. Pierce, Uni
tartan, Washington.
CURE FOR WORRY.
Worry reduces our power of resistance
Hope is the best defense against a foe.
The cure for worry is certain There are
specifics, and the prescription is not hard
to take. Cultivate a personality Get
above merely trying to make a living and
seek to make a life. Let some noble am
bition tfrob in your breast. Get out of
doors in Gods pure air and under the blue
sky and by the chanting sea. To see
nothing but mans handiwork is enough to
give man the blues Stop feasting at
night and late hours. plan for seven or
eight hours of healthful sleep, drink
QUARTS of pure water daily, eat an album
dance of plain food. Indigestion destroys
more happiness and religion than atheism.
Three-fourth of the worry of life is due to
careless treatment of our bodies. Have
few good friends. Make yourself worthy