The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-15

and se1f-seeking; cultivatfng cheer
fulness, magnandmity, charity, and
economy IN expenditure, cheerfulness
in conversation, diligence in ap-
pointed service, fidelity to every trust,
and child-Hke trust in God.-Bishop
John H. Vincent.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings Of
All Denominations.
Generosity is one Of the lovely traits
of true friendship. It comes out in
feeling, in conduct and IN special
tokens in the form of gifts.-Rev. J.
d. Burrel1, Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
UNSELFISHNESS.
Let love conquer your hearts. and
the world will make way for your
coming, and we shall startle the world
by the originality of our unseldshness.
Rev. D. D. McLaurin. Methodist.
Maxine A HE'LL.
There are two periods in every life
the period Of receptivity and the
time of fruitage. He who receives and
never gives is at war with the whole
universe, and if there be no hell in the
next life he will make one in this
Rev RFqes Hro 2yr RlSslpls Chicago.
Cities. like individuals need the dis
cipline of suffering to bring out of
them all that is best in character ana
manhood. They must have sorrow
tone to their development-Rev
witt NJ. Benham. Presbyterian, Balti-
| more.
POWER OF PATIENCE.
One Of the GROWING virtues of a
great character is patience. and pa
| tfence harnessed to great purpose
will tear down the greatest mountain
| OF opposition and surmount the most
! formidable bulwarlzs which lie across
7 our pathway--Rev. G. G. Pierce, Bap-
| tist, Los Angeles, Cal.
| GOOD ANGELS
| We are too ready to label men liars
and sinners. Tennyson says, There is
an angel and devil In every man"
angel in some who make loud profess
s1ons as 1t Is to find him In some who
make no professions REV John
| thompson, Methodist. Chicago.
1 BEST LIFE,
| The fullest life Is the disciplined and
temperate life. Without godiiness,
abstinence and high thinking the
pleasures of sense are gross and bru-
tai, and they perish in the using. Thus
it may be that living for God means
vastly more than to die for him; q
martyr may be less noble than a SER
want. Not death, but life, Is the Chris
tan ideal.-Rev. ]. P. Marlatt, Metho-
4 REGENERAToR OF SOCIETY.
The mission Of the church Is not to
be concerned to the customs and con-
oft1ons OF this age, but to stand In the
midst of this age as an effective agen-
cy Tor the regeneration Of society; not
to be lump OF clay to be nodded in
the fingers Of every passing trickster.
but to be an artist with a great ideal
and a trained eye and hand to execute
his will on the waiting marble-Rev.
joel b. Slocum, Baptist, Brooklyn.
A GREAT ERROR.
NO error that the human mind Is
capable of committing is greater than
indifference to religion. Religion Is the
most fundamental duty Of man. It is
the chief happiness of man. Religion
flows direct from the rational faculties
which he has received from God. Man
has nothing In himself, but owes all to
God, and therefore is absolutely bound
to fulfill the will Of his Creator.-Rev
J.. Ravens Richards. ST.. Roman Cath
GOD rs MAN.
There runs through the Old Tesla
naent as well as the New q note Of hope
which sounds clear, strong and full. Il
rises above the din and turmoil Of life's
activities. above its sorrows and dis.
| appointments. 1t Is q part of the ma
terial Of which the individual is com.
posed and is universal. It is the strons
side OF cur nature. It is the God II
man. You may call It optimism. cour.
4 .
asserts itself-Rev. H. NJ. Couden
: Episcopalian, washington.
HIGHEST TYPE OBJ CHRISTIAN.
The highest type Of Christian 10 hi
whose soul IL absorbed in some worl
OF human service. He spends the Ieas
possible time thinking about his owl
mental and religious state. Sorrow
and trials come to him, hours Of weak
ness, disbursement, loneliness, bu
he fees from them into his work no
simply because In that work he and
consolation, but because the worl
seems to him so much greater a thing
than his own private trouble.-Rev
Willard B. Thorp, Congregationalist
Chicago
LIFFS TRUE RHYTHM.
Every great life is made up of tw,
characteristics, the power to work ant
the ability to rest. The life that is al
work soon wears out and comes t
nothing. The life that Is all rest
weak. 1abby and nerveless, accom-
phshing nothing and really werth moth
ing, The important problem Is hov
q to combine the two-to work with ev
cry fiber OF our being, to throw OF,
hearts into whatever tasks we have Il
hand and then so rest that our tenn
porary cessation will not unfit us 70
"a LIES battle, but will send us into th
= conflict with renewed hope and q NOR
dauntless courage. This work and res-
81 this toiling with men end then retirfn
to be with God. constitutes the tr,i
rhythm of life. 1t brings out the har
i mony OF character, the subtIest of a
music ana makes men and women I'm
L mortal for good n fbofr loeS oi4+e