The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.

Love is a tree whose branches grow
in different directions.-Rev. DR..
Young. Methodist, Montreal. Canada
LOVE OF GODS HOUSE NEEDED
Christianity will never be what it
should be until we love the house of
God.-Rev. DR.. Floyd w. Tompkins,
Episcopalian, Philadelphia.
GODS CARE.
We cannot explain the healing forces
in life, the working of things together
for good, the unsought friends who
have come to us. except that God
cares.-Rev. P. NJ. Strayer, Presbyter-
ian, Rochester. N. Y.
49, IDEALS.
Every man should have his ideal
and should fight for it. as the color
bearer is intrusted with the emblem
of the army's success and refuses to
surrender it even at the cost of his
life.-Rev. Charles F. Carter, Baptist
Lexington, Mass.
CONSCIENCE.
We need more conscience. What is
a conscience? 1t is the voice of God
When conscience is stif1ed by selfish
ness there is no religion. Where self
ishness is sovereign there is no lib
erty.-Archbishop John Ireland, Ro-
man Catholic, st. Paul
GREAT REFORM MOVEMENTS.
There are two great reform move
ments in this world today, and they
are Christianity and socialism, deal
ing with the masses and trying to lift
humanity to a higher plane, but both
aspects Sacrifice is represented in
both of them.-Rev. c. K. Carpenter,
Methodist Episcopal, Aurora, Ill.
HER CHIEF NEED.
The greatest need of the church to-
day is deeper anxiety and a greater
effort for the elevation of our boys
and girls. our young men and young
women. When every church member
and Sunday school teacher becomes
an evangelist, then will the church be-
gin to know the meaning of applied
Christianity.-Rev. William A. Waldo.
Baptist, Cleveland, o.
FORGETFULNESS
There is an ungrateful forgetfulness
of which we are all guilty. We have
been forgetful of God. His mercies,
new every morning and fresh every
evening, are often forgotten and treat
ed with base ingratitude. Let us not
forget the love wherewith God hath
loved US. Let not the pierced hands
of eternal love be lifted up in testi-
mony against us.-Rev. DR.. J. w.
Shoaff Methodist, Los Angeles, Cal
POSITIONS OF THE IDEAL.
The position of the church is the
position of the ideal. 1t is like the
| mariners compass that points fnfall-
| IDLY to the magnetic north. 1t may be
| deranged by local conditions, but when
free and unimpeded it swings straight
to the eternal pole The church has
/ but one position to take, it has but
| one direction in which to point, and
! that is the place where the dreams OF
men become true, where the ideal is
real, where the spiritual is the final
term Of human life. The church IS
the power house of the spirit. It's
men and women are the avenues
through which the forces of the idea
| flow out in generous thought and be-
| nevolent service.-Rev. ]. c. Jaynes
| Unitarian Newton, Mass
THE CHURCH'S MAIN BUSINESS.
The business of the church is to
minister to human life 1t stands in
| each community to make life more
/ rich, free and abundant The method:
| It shall use must depend absolutely or
the section in which 1t is placed. Ev-
| erywhere it ought to hold up high and
noble ideas. In one place it may be
called to run hospital. or dispen-
sary, or a kindergarten, or settle
ment, or a manual training school 4
1 ought never to duplicate other instf-
/ tutions or agencies. It ought Away:
| to be ready and willing to step into e
gap and minister to a need but all tbs
time try to educate the community VI
| to the point of doing these things fol
itself. The main business of tbs
church is the business of inspiration
It must furnish the enthusiasm L
must fire men with courage and de-