The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-12

Anon.
Ihere is no use in arguing with
me inevitable: the only argument
with an east wind is to put on your
overcoat--Char1es Wagner.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.
Heaven is found not by going some
where IN the spirit world, but by be-
ing true with God and His laws
Rev. DR.. John Reid Shannon. Metho-
DIST Episcopal, Washington.
IN TOUCH WITH GOD.
Every true prayer, the accurate adj
justment of mans mental apparatus
10 the infinite mind. puts the soul in
touch with Godfrey. L. H. Ruge,
Congregationalist, Manchester by-th
Sea. Mass.
SEEING ONES FAULTS.
The individual who sees his faults,
turns face about and starts out in
another direction is sure to be more
useful each succeeding year.-Rev. L.
z: Bentley, Methodist Episcopal, In
dianapolis, Ind.
LOVES OWN CHARM.
Love has its own charm, which it
never wearies of imparting to that
in which 1T is interested. Familiarity
never breeds contempt where love
IL,
Donald. Ba ptist. Brooklyn.
PERMANENT VIRTUE.
Virtue cannot be cultivated in a
corner by a few saints and philosoph-
ers- To be permanent its program
must include the most ignorant and
the most degraded.-Rev. Anna G..
Spencer, Independent. Providence, r.
LOVE, TRUTH AND LIFE.
Truth is stronger than error. Love
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over death. And therefore every morn
ing means new birth of freedom
and hope and happiness for our
world.-Rev. DIR. Newell Dwight
Hills, Congregationalist, Brooklyn.
MANS BEST ASSET.
Character is mans best asset, both
commercially and religiously. 1t is
the only thing he can depend on with
safety and security, and the business
as well as the religious world puts
premium on it--Rev. George David
son, Episcopalian, Marietta. 0.
CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP.
The world does not want the re-
ligion of a man who will not pay his
debts. and it has Scriptural grounds
for it, because Jesus said, IF ye have
not been faithful in the unrighteous
mammon, who will commit to your
trust the true riches REV. A. c.
Dixon, d. D., Baptist. Chicago.
LOOK AHEAD.
we CdnnOL CIdilS0 the iSCOI VI tllO
past by bemoaning it, we cannot
straighten the crooked burrows by
looking back over the distance we
have come, but keep your eye to the
front and make the rest of the fur
rows straight.-Rev. P. NJ. Strayer
Presbyterian Rochester, N. Y.
TEMPTATION
The office of temptation Is to make
definite the lines of human limitation,
to bring one to the consciousness of
the exercise of lifes higher powers
and to enable man to lift himself
upon himself to higher ievels.-Rev
DR.. Henry C. Applegarth. Baptist
Cleveland, o.
BE KIND, TRUE AND FORGIvINGa
Remember before you pass judg-
ment on others that you have often
been misjudged. If you had been
heard or understood you might have
been justified. Let us be kind. ten
der hearted, forgiving one another,
even as God for Christ's sake hath
forgiven us.-Rev. DIR. w. A. Hunter
Presbyterian. Los Angeles, Cal.
RELIGION CULTIVATES RESPECT.
The live church will not seek to
perpetuate the prejudices of men, but
will give expression to their differ
ences in such a way as to cultivate
mutual respect among them. Relig-
ions divide men, but religion unites
them in sense of reliance on the SUI
preme power of righteousness.-Rev
Samuel Schulman, Rabbi, New York.
AN UNDERSTANDING OF GOD.
The best way to understand God is
to study the character, the words and
the deeds of Jesus Christ. Through
the visible we can see and understand
the invisible. Through Jesus Christ
the world is coming to understand
God; but, though men understand
God. alas, many of them still refuse
to give him the place of supreme de-
votion in their lives.-Rev. DR.. Curtis
Lee Laws, Baptist, Brooklyn
BLESSED ARE THE DISCON-
TENTED.
Look up and not down. Be man
and not an echo. Give thy gifts
grandly. Utter thy protest fearlessfy
Reach after better and higher things
than earth now contains in splendid
contempt of consequence. Be div1nely
disconnected with today's conditions
while striving to add your mite for
self and others advancement, and un-
der God you shall realize in all its
powerful suggestiveness and IN all It's
spiritual significance the glory or the
new beatitude, blessed are the dis
contented.-Rev. j. Leonard Levy
Rabbi, Pittsburg,
REAL TEST OF LIFE.
All that is required of any man is
faithfulness to his high ideal in his
own area of influence wherever he is
providentially stationed, There and
only there will the real test of. life
come. The kingdoms of the world
will become the kingdoms or right
eousness and of God just as soon as
each fuIfilis the divine ideal and ex-
pectation in his own place. And yet
while the real test of life is there
found let us not forget that we are
here facing the greatest problem OF
human existence. Assuredly the man
who wins in the area of the common
has overcome the world and secured
for himself a passport for heaven.
There is nothing more difficult in life
than victory in midst of the actual
and routine. The world VIII some
time recognize real worth and the
sovereign mind even though they be
found in humble conditions.-Rev.
Hardy CAngre gatlQQa liSt.