The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

it is to use it, spend it, give it away
Henry Van Dyke.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings OF
ALI Denominations.
However large any man may be
without Christ, he can be much larg-
er and greater with Christ living in
him.-Rev. M. S. Kaufman, Metho-
dist, Norwich, Conn.
THE CHRISTIANS WEAPON.
The one weapon is the word Of God
the sword of the spirit The word
embodies the thought Thought ex-
presses mind. The mind of God is the
power of the Christian.-Rev DR.. O.
P. Clifford, Baptist, Brookline, Mass.
TRUE CENTER
The true center is found in Jesus
Christ. He declared that not one jot
or little should fail of fulfillment;
that he came not to destroy. but to
fulfill the old.-Rev. William Horace
Day. Congregationalist, Los Angeles,
Col.
THE WAY TO HEAVEN.
If we would live the life which
leads to heaven we need only to in
tend to do right voluntarily in prefer
ence to doing it by compulsion Of cir
cumstances against our will.-Rev.
Hiram Vrooman. Presbyterian. Prov
idence, r. I.
MANS BEST FOUNDATION.
A cupola or a lightning rod you may
have. but foundation you must have.
and that foundation is Christianity.
Christianity furnishes the foundation,
and no man can get on we'll without
tt.-Rev. T. E. Bartlett, Baptist. Prov
idence. r. I.
A MODERN NEED.
The need Of today is a creed with
God in it big enough to worship
with all our heart and soul and
strength. The main postulate of our
creed must be, az believe in God, the
Mcleod, Presbyterian, Tacoma, Wash.
RIGHT PRAYING.
When we pray Alright we are COM
muning with the true and only God;
aspirations and emotions climb to the
very highest tab1elands they are ca
pable of reaching.-Rev. c. A Bus
kirk, Christian Scientist, Louisville,
KY.
PURPOSES OF MAN.
Not a man but is conscious of &C.
casional hours that are full of prom
Use, but his purposes are like the bios
SONS on the peach tree, of which
there seems a strange overplus, since
Newell D. Hills, Congregationalist,
Brooklyn.
WILL OF RIGHT.
God has given every man the will
to do right, the will to succeed and
to persevere. That will is ours as long
as we keep it under control and do
not allow it to become subservient to
our passions and our Weaknesses
Rev. T. ]. Mcdonald. Roman Catho-
lie, Utica, N. Y.
GODS REWARD SUPERIOR.
Just as surely as moral delights are
superior to physical delights, SO surely
are the rewards of keeping Gods
moral law infinitely superior to any
reward that may come to him who
keeps merely a physical law.-Rev.
DR.. Charles Bayard Mitchell, Metho-
dist Episcopal, Chicago.
SELF. CONTROL.
The secret Of self control is not to
resist evil but to overlook it. Fix in
the mind some object other than the
that threatens, and you
are safe. Add to your self control
Christ control, for without Christ the
highest life is impossible.-Rev. P. H.
Barker Congregationalist, Chicago.
AND CONTENT OF LIFE.
but to be also conduct. 1t must
have a content, filling, breadth,
and that conduct and content must be
proportionate to its length. Ones ca
reer in life ought to succeed in en-
larging ones character. If you find
your business dwarfing your manhood
you are on the wrong track.-Rev.
DR.. Hugh T. Kerr, Presbyterian, Chi
cago.
MUCH IN A NAME.
Everything is in a name until I'M
worthy living empties it of its precious
value, and then the name becomes
byword and a hiss. But even so, there
is much in the name, but 1t is evil.
1t is a sad thing when name comes
to be nothing more than the designa-
ton of a human unit. 1t might as we'll
be a number. 1t has lost its meaning
when it has lost It's character. We can
silence, contempt, applause
or reverence at the mention of a
F. Watson Hannah, Epis-
copalian, Brooklyn.
THE GOLDEN AGE.
Even in the unfortunates who have
fallen We may see the golden age If
we will stoop down and lift them and
sneak to them in golden words. Pos
sibly If instead of passing them by
with a cold look on our faces, a with
ering sheer, we lift our hat to that
seemingly gay but sad hearted wo-
man she may look up and catch ray
of hope that will inspire golden
vision of a golden future for her in
the great, unending beyond. Jesus
never condemned such as she. Why
should we?-Rev. G.. r. Robbins,
Baptist. Cincinnati.
GREAT WORKING CAPITAL.
The body and soul of man respond
to faith by doing their best, just as