The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-02
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations
Faith gives us moral power, clear
vision, undaunted hope.-Bishop f.
?: spaiding' Episcopalian. Salt Lake
NoBLEsT PEOPLE.
Inc greatest and noblest people are
ehose who have surmounted the great
gsI l1ficu!ties;-Rev. w. w. BASTARD.
A MIGHTY FORCE.
The ultimate fact is a person, the
paste principle personality. The
mlsntiest force is the power of per-
sonaiity-Rev. F. j. Van Horn. Con-
gregatlonal1st, Seattle. Wash.
HEART IMPULSES
The impulses of a warm heart are
better and truer and finer often than
the mathematical formulas of a big
liam, Raleigh. N. C.
CENTER OF ALL THINGS.
Jesus Christ Is both the condemna-
tlon or what we are and the promise
OF what we can be. He is the center
of all things and the final interpre-
tation of the universe.-Rey. r M.
Little Presbyterian. Pittsburg, Pa.
HIGH IDEALS.
You are ruled by your ideals. See to
1t that they include purity, charity,
Justice, truth, righteousness, love.
Jesus Christ is the ideal character.
Fashion your life after his.Rev. S.
H. G. Burgin, Methodist, San Antonio,
Tex.
MEETING LIES HARD FACTS.
In almost every face there is writ
ten the story of trial in mind and
soul. Only the fewest men and wo-
men show by their serene looks that
they met the hard facts of life in a
living faith;-Rev. g. R. Gebauer,
Unitarian, Duluth. MINI.
GREAT FORWARD STEP.
When man discovers that it is not
the going through with forms of wor-
ship that makes up religion, he has
made a great step forward and has
approached wonderfully near to the
kingdom.-Rev. Charles w. Daniel,
Baptist. Atlanta, Ga,
START OF A FIRM FOUNDATION.
Every man is potentially a son of
God. Any one who thus emphasizes
the inherent worth and dignity of
every soul has laid a firm foundation
upon which he may build a life of
practical usefulness-Rev. M. Leroy |
Burton. Congregationalist, New Ha-
ven, Conn.
Is TRUE GLORY MORE THAN
ya~ RICHES.
With nations as with individuals, |
their true glory is in something more |
than their possessions. Riches and |
fullness of life do not consist in the
dividual or the nation possesses.
Righteousness exalteth a nation
Rev: S. J. Niccolls, Presbyterian, st.
Louis
GODS GREAT NATION
For the first time in human his
tory God has a great nation which
has developed a national conscious
ness capable of realizing a Christian
conscience and thus great things he
wants done for the whole world
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odist Episcopal, Chicago.
ONE OF MANS GREAT OBLEMSI
The greatest problem facing men
Today is to feel and know that they
required. There was a time when old
theology taught us that men were to
be sighted and thought little of, but
that time is passed. Teach a man that
him that he is really something and
ne will do something.-Rev. S. Y.
Batten, Baptist, Lincoln. Neb.
" HAPPY AND UNHAPPY HOMES.
Cut out sins that destroy. The CEN
raj teaching of the Bible is that sin 4
causes all misery. There are happy
homes where husband and father left
legacy of brave and loving deeds, !
wen through poverty and pain, and
where mother and children may take
Up the battle with a smile and with
,ut shame. They are the unhappy
mes where wrongdoing has cast its
removable shadow, where husband
II wife, son or daughter, has listened
o the voice of the tempter. and turn
he back upon duty and love. 1t was
n infinite wisdom as well as pity
hat the Man of. Sorrows intended to
ave U.S. not from pain or death, but
rom our sins. And If one discovers a
in that is gradually destroying his h
life then he is to give 1t up, even If 1T /
re as dear as eye or hand or foot i
aev. A. H. Thompson, Methodist Epis-
opal. Washington.
WOMAN AND THE CHURCH.
The greatest achievement of our i
entury and civilization is the actual
A masculine church is
failure. For centuries the Jewish
hurch was mans church in which
7ornen served and labored. but re-
eived scant recognition of their worth
s. force in religion and civilization 4
he Christian era is. in a broad sense,
he era of womanhood. For centuries
he providence of God has been wo-
1anizing the church. to a great adj
antage of the church and woman
God. Differences in creed would soon
G settled if the church were control
I'd by the law of love which Is the
wv of womanhood. The last picture
/ the Bible of the church representa-
as a woman clothed with the sun,
ne moon under her feet and crown .
stars above her head-not a weak,
Ibdued and frail creature, but a De-
orah calling the nations to Christ.
he preponderance of womanhood in fl
ne church is not an accident. 1t has W
sanctifying influence on the church "
self and the home and through the s.
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