The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-17
RELIGIOUS THoUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings oi
All Denominations.

Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.
Loyalty to church should not be
contingent upon petty human likes and
disIikes-Rev. Arthur G. Jones, Pres
byterian. San Antonio, Tex.
LAMPS ON THE ROAD TO FAITH.
Nature, mind, morals, Christ
these are the steps or the lamps on
the road toward faith.-Rev. DR.. Al
bert J. Lyman, ongregationaliSt,
THE CHURCH AND ADJUSTMENTS.
All wholesome amusements are
needed, but instead of trying to abol-
ish them the church should seek to
purify and uplift them.-Rev. A. e.
Bartlett, Baptist, Chicago.
SHARING ONE ANOTHER'S JOYS.
You have a little joy, very little.
hardly enough to keep your soul from
starving. Share that joy with some one
in trouble, and when you return you
will. find a great joy in your heart
Rev. John Hopkins Dennison, Congre-
gationalist, Boston.
INSPIRATION.
Inspiration is not the attempt of
faroff power to put something into
your mind, but it is the effort your
mind is making to throw off from it,
self perceptions of spiritual truth
which were already there.-Rev. u.
G. B. Pierce, Unitarian, Washington.
MAN AND THE UNIVERSE.
The universe is not mans inferior in
rise in knowledge to grasp her Sc
crets she yields her vast wealth and as
a servant emancipates her new found
master from the slavery to toil.-Rev.
Claude H. Priddy, Episcopalian,
Brooklyn.
TO REFORM THE UNBROTHERLY
Men cannot be driven into the king
dom of God with the butt end of a
horsewhip. Honest brotherly feeling ex-
hibited in sincere speech and behavior
will do more to reform the unbroth-
erly than all the acts of legislatures
can do.-Rev. James B. Clayton, Bap-
49, A GREAT MOMENT.
righteousness and peace and joy,
healthy and holy living-that is the
city of God to us. When the. church
realizes the realism of that idealism
it will again experience a great mo-
ment'' and reach the life of our time
and do it's part in winning this world
to the knowledge and love of Cod
Rev. Caleb S. S. Dutton, Unitarian,
RELIGION LOSING IT'S BACKBONE
Our type of Christianity today.
while benevolent and gentle, is not at
all robust. We are developing a very
tender and lily-lilxe religion, with the
note of the militant very much sti1led.
Re1igiously our danger is that we will
grow a spinal column incased not in
vertebrate, but in gutta percha.-Rev.
Arthur c. Archibald, Baptist, Brock
ton, Mass.
WINNING SOULS.
What great achievement 1t is
when a ski1lful physician has snatched
back human life from the very jaws
of death and thus enabled it to live
many years more. But how much
greater the snatching of a soul out of
the Jaws of eternal death and bring
ing it into the possession of the
power of an endless e.'-Rev. DR..
John H. Kerr, Presbyterian, Brook
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Ignorance is the mother Of evil. It
is the greatest foe of the church. Ev-
erything that we do nowadays is be-
ing gathered UP and published. We
believe in publicity. It's beneficial re-
suits are being everywhere recognized
If there are great deeds done in this
church or in the community, tell of
them. If there are sanity lives con-
secrated to high and noble purpose.
let the world know about them. If
there is good in the church, make
it public.-Rev. DR.. c. Ernest Smith,
Episcop alian, Washington.
VALUE OF ALTERNATING SORROW
Never do you approach nearer to |
God than when you alleviate the sor-
rows of others. Never do you prove |
to be the children of your
Heavenly Father more effectually |
than when you bring sunshine to |
hearts that were darkened by the
clouds of adversely. Never do you per- |
form a deed more like to the creative |
act of the Almighty than when you |
cause the flowers of Joy and gladness
to bloom in souls that were desolate |
and barren before.-Cardina1 Gibbons |
Roman Catholic. Baltimore.
THE CHURCH'S GREAT MOMENT. |
The supreme moment of the church |
lies in the fact that modern society is |
finding out that it cannot live by |
bread alone: that in our boosted secu- |
lar success lies not the satisfaction it /
Graves; that those invisibles we call /
love, joy. peace, temperance, meek |
ness, faith, the corn1no dfties known as |
comradeship, trust, the discip- |
lines by which man becomes conscious |
nf his best self. of the divine in him
and around him-that these are ar
Caleb S. S. Dutton. Unitarian, Brook
iyn.
PLEDGE OF ETERNAL LIFE.
In the history of the world it has
always seemed that the true children |
Of God have been marked out for sor-
row, and at all times the. question has
been asked, as it is asked today, Why /
this-that God desires to try US. we
suffer the many sorrows and tribu1a-
tons of the world in order that we
may prove that we are possessed of
faith which is true and firm. Sorrow
and trials are but pledge OF eternal
life. Let US go on serving God, loving
and thanking him, and remem bering
that if we meet with suffering it is
the best way to gain everlasting life. |
Let us show the same love that Mary
and Joseph did, the two most dear to
Christ, yet to whom sorrow and hard
ship came, only to find them ever
patient and obedient.-Rev. David W.
CHTTRCH NOTICES