The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-23
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

work is done among them.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
i All Denominations,
/ Truth is mighty and win prevail. but
it prevails by getting incarnated IL
man--Rev. Dr. E. L. House, Congre-
/ lgationalist. Spokane, Wash.
ENDURING LIGHTS.
There are lights that endure forever
lights of truth, of conscience, of duty
of purity, of holiness.-Rev E L. Pow
ell, Presbyterian, Louisville, Ky.
STRONGEST SOULS.
! The purest and the strongest souls
are those who have spent most time
alone with their Creator-Rev. DR.. S.
Edward Young, Presbyterian, Brook
lyn.
MAKING HEROES.
knowledge of right will make a hero
of the frailest. The one who realizes
! that he is right with God can battle
his hands in the martyr hame-Rev.
DR.. White, Baptist, Macon. Ga
| OWNERSHIP
| We should have great sense of own
ership in all Gods universe. This world
| is all ours when once We have the
spirit of Christ in us to enjoy it-Rev.
Brooklyn.
TRULY GREAT MAN.
| The really great man is he who, in
spite of his relation to carnality and
sin, leaps beyond or, rather, by pa
| tient, gradual rise mounts the skies
and rises above all fogginess and little
Iness.-Rev. T. Aird Moffat, Congrega-
tionalist, Newark, N. J.
LAUGH CURES FOR TROUBLES.
If we would laugh more and grum-
BILE less about the table there would
not be SO much indigestion. We need
in order that we may understand and
appreciate each others position and
disposition.-Rev. William W. Bustard,
Baptist, Roxbury, Mass.
BEWARE OF LITTLE SINS.
The beginning of sin is like the let
ting out of water or the starting of
fire A little leak in the dixie if not
mended will lead to the ruination of
the whole country. Beware, then, of
the beginnings of evil. Beware of so
called little sins. Above all. beware of
that foul mother, envy, that produces
such offspring of evil-Rev. DR.. Sam
uel H. Woodrow, Congregationalist,
Washington.
HOPE FOR HUMANITY.
By the roadside of human life lie
many specimens of manhood well nigh
useless, but Jesus Christ with infinite
patience and love shows his willing
ness to lift up those who seem to be
the most helpless, dead in trespasses
and SINS" and by imparting to them
his own divine life and strength nur-
lures them until they bud and blossom
into Christian manhood.-Rev. S. ].
Robinson, Baptist, Brooklyn.
VALUE OF FAILURE.
The world needs men who are not afraid
OF failure: IheTe ft,I Is ,notning SO eonduciDe We
standing and fighting alone. He who is
not afraid of being in the minority is a
diet refused to accept AIoltke's proposition
for frontier defenses and for the reorgan-
then Prussia must do it alone" And
Prussia proceeded alone, and its resulting
strength coerced the others to fall in line.
Moltke was for a time the most hated
officer in the German army. In the end
he attained that success that made him
the best beloved.-Rev. DR.. KrauskOpf,
Hebrew, Philadelphia.
REAL PITY.
There Is toe oI mTGh 4posa in our our
are sick: Too much it goes on the theory
that infractions Of the social code are
that every man is born a free agent. The
fact is that every one inherits the indul-
grandparents. There is in in ali men en- who
strive to do right battle between the
Clown are limited in their power to do as
they would. The giant and the weakling
inherit the results of sins of former gem
stapty half IeaTning and 'Plo poor 1a logic
that God is good and therefore there is
no struggle between good and bad in man.
1t is our duty not to shun the sinner, but
to pity him, and pity, not with words
alone, but real pity means an effort to
rescue.-Rev. DR.. Emil G. Hirsch. Hebrew,
Chicago.
LIFE'S BEST EPOCH.
For many reasons the last epoch of
man. s career ought to be the happiest, the
wisest and the most influential. Human
life is like a goodly fruit tree, but the
best epoch for the tree is not the time
of April blossoms nor the July's green
fruit; the best hour for the, tree is the
hour of maturity, when the husbandman
stretches forth his hand and plucks the
fruit waiting to be garnered. Human life
is like river, but the river is not at its
best when it rises a little mountain
spring, nor when midway in its course
the river runs bank full, swollen with the
passionate rains of heated summer; the
river is at its best when it leaps into the
deep where its stream is cleansed and it's
mire settled. Human life is like a sum
mer's day, but the beautiful day is not at
its best in the morning, before the sun has
cleared itself of clouds, nor at noon when
its fierce heat blisters the fields; the most
beautiful hour of the day is when the
sun begins to slant, when its flame is
tempered and the sunbeams turn every
fallen bough into a wand of gold, and the
happy harvesters go singing homeward.
eclipsed the fame of the afternoon of life
Rev DR. Newell Dwight Hills, Congre-
gationa1ist, Brooklyn.
BIBLE STUDY XIV.