The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

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liam E. Simonds
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
We have need to thank God more
and more for the friends that we pos
sess and pray that we may never be
left friendiess-Rey. Maurice Ambrose
Levy. Baptist, Newton Center. Mass.
TO SECURE A TITLE CLEAR TO
HEAVEN.
To live with men and for humanity,
as Jesus lived when on earth, is the
surest way to secure title clear to
mansions in the skies. Rev. Amos
Judson Bailey, Reformed, Brooklyn.
FIRST ESSENTIALS.
Honesty and integrity are the first
essentials. Be careful and honest in
the little things, and the greater things
will come of themselves.-Rev. George
Davidson, Episcopalian, Marietta, o.
SOUL OF IMPROVEMENT.
Improved methods are good, but i'm
proved men and women are better, and
the soul of improvement is the i'm
provement of the soul.-Rev. DR.. Chas.
F. Aked, Baptist. New York.
TO DO GOOD.
You've got to live a Christian life if
you expect to do any good. All the
preaching in the world won't save
soul if you don't live the life, and If
Il
Billy Sunday, Evangelist, Chicago.
MANS MORAL DESTINY.
More and more the conviction grows
that to teach men how to fulfill their
moral destiny here is to fit them to
fulfill it hereafter and that to do this
is to bring down the New Jerusalem
from heaven to earth.-Rev. Caleb S.
S. Dutton. Unitarian. Brooklyn.
NEED OF ENTHUSIASM.
A need in the armament of man in
the battle is enthusiasm. 1t is not only
necessary to believe. but one must have
the inspiration. Men do not gain fame
by chance, but men do gain it by
Downey, Methodist, Chicago.
WHAT COUNTS.
1 recognize the pressure of modern
life and the limitation on our time and
strength, but it is quality and not
but how genuine. is the test of the
church's service and power.-Rev. F. A.
Hanley, Baptist. Providence. r. I.
TRANSFORMING OF HUMAN
SOCIETY.
On the basis of righteousness human
society will be transformed. Who is
the church? Not the minister; not the
mosque You are the church, and you
who are the church must understand
your obligation and duties and lead
the world to an understanding of the
destiny of human society.-Rabbi Cries,
Cleveland, o.
In The 1ORD.
The human soul is restless until it
reposes in God. If we faithfully seek
and find this safe retreat in the grace
of the reconciled God, then the cause
of all our restlessness will be removed,
and it will be fulfilled. what the Saw
Jour says, Come unto me, all ye that
labor and are heavy laden, and 1 will
give you rest.'-Rev. Ernest A. Tap
pert, Lutheran, New York.
OUR CONSCIENCE AS A GUIDE.
We are not without a guide. God
has given us conscience that is to
has beside him the faithful compass,
his guide. W@have to have with us
in the voyage of life our conscience as
a guide that by it we may reach our
harbor. the home God has prepared
for us after death.-Rey. Thomas r.
| Mccoy, Roman Catholic, Boston.
HOPE THAT SPURS US ON.
The price of not becoming a Chris
tian is the loss of joy and hope. All
| life is lived by hope. The business
man consoles himself for his present
condition with the hope of future ac-
tivity. We have much to contend
with in this life, and it is the hope of
resurrection and eternal life that spurs
| US to our best efforts. 1t is by that
hope that we are able to give our best
efforts in this life.-Rev. F. e. Dark,
Baptist, Portland, Ore.
GIVE AND YE SHALL RECEIVE.
We are here on earth to be trained
| to give and not to grasp. We gain
most by giving most. We lose by
grasping. If we blindly refuse to give
and insist on grasping, God comes to
us as a wise father to a greedy child
and says, Give that to me-" He
comes to make us give. because by
giving only can we truly receive; not
to take from US our joy, but that by
giving to him we may receive more
| joy.-Rey. John Hopkins Dennison,
Congregationalist, Boston
THE LIGHT OF REASON.
The light that once shone far out
over the great blue sea from the top
of the Pharos went out long centuries
ago, but the light that reason kfndles
in the brain of man is immortal and
cannot be extinguished. Forever and
forever it burns, brighter and bright
er, clearer and clearer. and because
truth is truth and right is right the
time must come when all men shall
walk in it's light, free from supersti-
| ton and from all the ugly prejudices
and hates for which superstition is re-
sponsible.-Rev. Thomas 3. Gregory,
Universalist, New York.
SOWING GOOD SEEDS.
Sad. sad thought to realize that the
living words of God to some people
from the lips of Gods children. New
ertheless they shall not return to him
void by any means. But the wayside.
| the stony, rough, unfertile ground,
growing nothing but thorns and this
| ties, unless this wayside is digged and
worked and put in a fertile condition
/ It will not and cannot bring forth
good fruit. But some one has asked,
How can this be done ?" Very easily
brother-by letting Jesus come into