The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-11

reasonable use; and it is not the ac-
acknowledgement of poverty we think
disgraceful. but the want OF endeavor
to avoid it.-Pericles.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
OF All Denominations.
Nothing reduces your influence
faster than getting mad.-Rev. s. Ed
ward Young. Presbyterian. Pittsburg.
SAFETY.
Better have a wire fence at the
edge of a precip1ce than magnificent
hospital at the bottom of it.-Rev. J.
d. Adam, Reformed, Brooklyn.
BULLET PROOF.
Religion is not to make US COM
Portable, but to make us bullet proof
Crane. Congregationalist, Worcester,
Mass.
A WONDERFUL POWER.
All. how great is the power of re-
pentance when it transforms a slave
of Satan and a moral outcast into an
elect of Godi-Cardinal Gibbons, Ro-
man Catholic, Baltimore.
SPIRTT@OF HELPFULNESS
The spirit of Christ is the spirit OF
helpfulness. The helping hand Is
open wider today than ever before,
and the sad heart of the man of
NdZdTetH IS surely IndQS TO IcJOlCG.-
Rev. p. H. Swift, Methodist, Chicago.
DEFEAT AND VICTORY.
Defeat and failure in business or
life. in our ambitions or plans, are re-
suits we never welcome. Yet there
are many victories which are worse
than defeats and many apparent fall
ures which are victories-Rev. r. L.
Phalen, Unitarian, Worcester, Mass. =
SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE.
The Bible. is from God and SO is
science. and there is no conflict be-
tween them. Jesus Christ was the
supreme scientist. Man and nature
were perfectly known to him. His
gospel, miracles and present power
prove that.-Rev. J. s. Thompson. In
dependent. Los Angeles, Cal.
GUARD AGAINST FAILURE
Many men have been failures be-
cause they have not the conviction of
their strength. Often when a person
couragement will help him much, but
the word of encouragement does not
give the strength. There must also
be the conviction Of strength.-Rev.
B. r. Green, Baptist. Duluth.
ANSWERING OF PRAYER.
Because every prayer does not re-
ceive an objective answer some people
deny the value of prayer altogether.
That is like denying the worth of
agriculture because some gardens fail
to return the desired harvest. There
are certain laws to be obeyed and con-
ditions to be complied with if the
prayer or the planting is to avail
much.-Rev. w. H McGlauflin, Uni
versalist Atlanta, Ga.
THAT WHICH is PROFITABLE.
The sooner We are fully impressed
that this present life is uncertain and
very short and that the future life is
sure and endless the better 1t will be
for us; also to learn that material
things cannot satisfy the SOUL but that
a man must be rich toward God be-
fore that aching void can ever be fill-
ed, and that gcdliness is profitable I'M
to all things and we may add unto all
time.-Rev. w. F. Bryan, Methodist,
Dallas, Tex.
THE COMING CHURCH.
The church Of the future will be
practical-that Is, it will put its beliefs
into practice Belief and life have been
too long divorced. There has been too
wide q gulf between the truth we knew
and the truth we lived. In ever in
creasing measure right thinking must
issue in right living. What is revealed
as truth to the reason will become a
law to the will. The highest wisdom
is not in knowing what is right, but IN
doing it.-Rev. DR.. 8. H. woodrow,
orgregationalist, Washington.
NUE. lew VI WOllh
Common things are made to serve a
religious purpose by bringing to the
use of them a religious motive. A re-
ligious motive brought to the use of
other common things will make them
serve a religious purpose also. Every
thing with which the hand of man has
to do the divine hand had to do with
first. He made the raw material; man
makes the finished product. The true
view to take OF every legitimate work
is that it is an opportunity to help COM
plete the work of creation. The right
motive put into what we do will give it
something of the same look belonging
to what he has done. The great end
of life is moral, and every necessary
work has a bearing on that end There
is vastly more for men in the place Of
toll than health or wealth or enjoy
ment.-Rev. Pleasant Hunter, Presby
terrain, Newark. N. J.
DELIvERANCE FROM SUFFERING.
Inseparable with the idea of the
goodness of God Is the truth of the in
f1exibility Of Gods laws. Apart from
obedience to law there could be no dis
cipline, no growth, no heaven. Even
the child becomes restless and thank
less when there is no restraint, no pen
atty for breaking the right rules OF
conduct. Much Of the pain in life
comes from mans own violation Of
law. The first thing we notice as we
turn to the bright side Of the picture
of life is the provision God has made
for human happiness. We notice how
the earth and all the earth produces
have been arranged for the comfort NJ
man. The relation OF this planet to
the whole astral system. the arrange
ment Of light and heat, the sequence
of seasons with the return Of seedtime
and harvest. even the flowers with
their exquisite beauty, all speak OF the
goodness of God. We begin to realize
as we scan the picture that the pain
and suffering are not Of Gods making,
but spring out OF the failure of man to
adapt himself to his environment. II
man were only co-ordinated with ma
ture as God intended, there would be
no suffering, and the only deliverance
from suffering is to come into harmony
with Godfrey. D. G. Garrett. Episco-
palian. st. Louis.