The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings of
All Denominations.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings of
All Denominations.
The great power in the world is,
after al, not money. but intellect--
Catholic, New York
RELIGION IN BUSINESS.
we mus have religion in business.
NO spot Is more sacred than where the
is square.-Rev. Thomas Knox, Pres
byteriap, Aurora, III.
DANGEROUS FEATURE OF HOME
LIFE.
me alarming feature of our home
life is the failure of the family to be
much together and influence one an
other.-Rev. DIR. s. Edward Young,
Presbyterian, Pittsburg
OUR NATIONAL SAFETY.
Our safety as a nation is not in our
soldiers, but in our righteousness. The
nation and people that do not serve
God shall perish.-Rev. S. D. Paine,
Methodist, Jacksonville, Fla.
HARMONY.
There would not be so many divorc-
ed people in America if they had
learned patiently to put up with each
others faults. Harmony is the thing
that makes heaven here as well as
hereafter.-Rev. w. w. Bastard, Bap-
fist, Boston.
THREE SORTS OF WINNERS.
The man after Gods own heart will
understand that fellowship, humanity
and the making merry with friends
are signs of health and worth and
earnest of winning.-Rev. DR.. c. ELL
wood Nash, Universalist, Los Angeles,
Cal.
GROWING LIKE GOD.
When ones heart throbs go out in
kindness, good will and sympathy
and in all the gracious sentiments of
brotherhood toward his fellows, then
is he growing in likeness to his Father
in heaven. And this conduces to the
common happiness.-Rev. Junius B.
Remensyder, Lutheran, New York.
MANS DEVELOPMENT
Man does not develop in the highest
sense until he comes into a conscious
need of spiritual attainment, until
there is a hungering and thirsting af
ter the fruits Of the spirit-gentleness
love.-Rev. Guy Arthur Jameson.
Episcopal. Tottenville. N. Y.
A VIEW OF SUCCESS.
Success is by no means absolute. 1t
is relative, a different thing in each
individual case. 1t is not competition
one with another; 1t is mans competi-
ton with himself. 1t is not what you
have, but what you are; not a position.
but condition--Rev.A Andrew Gillies,
Congregationalist, Minneapolis, MINI.
STANDING FOR THE RIGHT.
The men who stand for the right
because they know that nothing can
hinder the onward march of God and
regardless of self and ease and favor,
regardless of personal consequences,
do the right as they see 1t are the men
who write their names in 'indelible ink
upon the pages of history.-Rev. John
Erskine Adams. Presbyterian. Brook
Ign. .
NATURE BEAUTIFIER.
Let nature teach you to value and
strive for the beautiful. She abhors
the ugly and seems ever seeking to
transform it into loveliness. / have
seen in the northern woods an old
trunk half submerged out of which a
cluster of flowers was growing, as If
nature were endeavoring to atone for
and hide the nsightly.-Rev. H. P.
Dewey. Congregationalist, Minneapolis,
MINI.
WHO FRIENDSHIP ARE FOR.
1t often happens that a mans wealth
spoils his possibilities of deep and d.
versified friendships. for it is among
workers and never among idlers that
true friendships are found. Men who
Wade about their clubs can never
know the choice and enduring friend
ships which arise among men who la
Dor and sacrifice together for the COM
crs and not for loafers.-Rev. DR..
Fem. Episcopalian, Boston.
LOVES GREATNESS.
Love is greater than the wisdom of
King Solomon. Love is greater than
the prophetic eve which can look
through the black curtsNn which sepa-
rates the present and the events that
will happen millions of years hence.
Love is greater than the strength of
the everlasting hills. Love Is greater
than the highest triumphs of art. For
If we have not love, no matter how
great our intellectually may be. we
are as nothing.-Rev. DIR. Frank De
Witt Talmage, Presbyterian, Los An
geles, Cal
NEED OF THE MANS CHURCH.
The church must rid itself of hys-
terical emotionalism and appeal to the
intellectual side of the people. There
is need for the emotional element in
religion, but when the emotions alone
are played upon we get an effeminate
and effemfnating religion. That Is one
reason why our places of worship have
become woman's and a children's re-
treat and why men eschew churchgo-
ing. We want a mans church as well
as a woman's church. All head and
| no heart gives us the cold, calculating
cynic and sceptic. All heart and no
head gives us the hysterical fanatic
and the raving bigot. There must be
a harmonious blending of these two
forces to get the highest and best re-
| suits for the church as well as for hu-
| mainly. Religion must free itself from
the shrouds OF mediaevalism and adj
vocate twentieth century cult. So
GEOLOGY must be made Its dominant
consideration. 1t Is the social ques-
ton, after all. that is pivotal in the
true relationship between man and
man, and as long as we do not get
the true relationship between man and
man we cannot get the true relation
ship between man and God. He serves
God best who serves man most-Rab-
bi Tobias Schanfarber, Chicago.
Bible Study ".
ACTS VIII.
CHAPTER name-Philip-S.