The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-13
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

OeAlS OIedneO from the IeacnngS o
All Denominations.
If you want to know whether Chris
tianity is true, try it. The objections
contradict each other and are not true
Rev. DR.. Charles F. Aked, BapLlet
New York.
HOLY GROUND.
! Every heart can become sanctuary
OF the Eternal Wherever there are
love and reverence there is holy ground
Rev. Julius Silberfeld, Hebrew, New
| ark, N. J.
HARMONY WITH THE ALMIGHTY
Harmony with God is not simply te
| attend church, to pray, to sing, to have
| ones own soul nourished 1t is consti-
tuted by a life lived for others-Rev
Gurdon H. Eggleston, Presbyterian,
| Brooklyn.
FRIENDSHIP.
! Real friendship is always an inward
possession. 1t is won in terms of soul
/ Real friendship never crosses the door
sill of any life save his who has paid for
1t an inward price.-Rev. DIR. George
Clarke Peck. Methodist Episcopal, New
| York
CHRISTIANITY AND ETERNITY.
The old idea that we must devote all
our energies to teaching men to be pre-
pared for eternity needs revision. Eter-
| nifty will take care of itself, and men
Christians in heaven.-Rev. DR.. Charles
A. Eaton, Baptist, New York.
WORLDWIDE VIEW.
The mark of the great soul is found
tied by our provincialism. We live in
a corner. The greatness of a man is in
his ability to take large view, yet the
great men, Caesar, Luther and the rest.
were limited by their national ideals,
Roman or German.-Bishop Galloway,
Methodist, Savannah, Ga.
CHRISTIAN PERFECTION.
All that we have in soul and body,
outwardly or inwardly, natural or su-
pernatural, is from God. Therefore,
while time is still ours, let US resolve to
bow patiently to the infinite wisdom
and carry our cross in the true spirit
Of penance, SO that we may advance in
the path of Christian perfection and
Rev. T. F. Delaney, Baptist, New Or
leans.
SOCIETY.
Society is like the planetary system,
which is composed of greater and lesser
bodies held together by reciprocal
forces. The moon is the smallest body
of our system, and yet what control
she Sways in the flow and ebb of the
ocean tides! How much we would miss
her monthly visits when she sheds her
pale ard silvery light! She generous
ly shares with us the effulgence she
borrows from the great orb of day
Cardinal Gibbons, Roman Catholic, Bal
timore.
With the coming of the modern wise
men will be established a new basis for
our faith. 1t will rest not on the infal-
Hbility of the church. 1t Will rest not
on the infalibility of the book. 1t will
depend not on the accuracy of a creed
or the leadership of man. 1t will go
deep down for support to the funda-
nentals of human nature. 1t will rest
upon the bedrock truth of the need of
man for God and the need of God for
foundation
religion was put by Jesus Christ To
get the shifting, changing, doubling
work upon this foundation there is need
of the broadest vision, the largest wis
dom. the deepest knowledge of the age.
If men Of science are leaving the
church, no minister ignorant of science
can bring them back. To the broad
service of religion the scholar and the
Van Schaick, Episcopalian. Washing
ton.
GOOD MORALITY.
I want you all to believe in doctrine.
I love doctrine, but I want to apply it
to our daily lives. 1 believe also in the
communion of saints, but we must use
It every day. / want you to be good
Of your own volition. Goodness that is
brought about by coercion is not good
ness at all. If I had son I would
want him to be man, and I would
rather have him cover himself with
CRIME and get up and wash himself
than that he should be as innocent as a
baby 1 would want him to be a fighter.
L would want him to be daring and a
hero. 1 would want him to fight his
sins. 1 have had to fight mine. Here
is a boy who is rather wild and does
what is called Sowing his wild oats"
and his father gives him up. I say that
any man who gives up his own son is
not his father and that any man who
has the blood of a father will not give
up his son. If had a boy and he went
wrong 1 would never give him up if all
the world stood by and looked at me in
scorn. When boy sows his wild oats
and then comes home you open your