The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.
There is a great difference between
| seeing an ideal and living out that
| ideal.-Rev. DIR. Harvey A. Jones,
Methodist Episcopal CINCINNATI.
FRIENDSHIP.
The gift of friendship is something
that strikes deeper and lasts longer
than mere gifts of material things
Rev. Harmon H. McQuilikin, Presby-
terrain, San Jose, Cal.
SECRET OF VALUES.
The soul is the center and secret
of all that we call valuable. Take
out the soul and you bankrupt the
business of the world-Rev. Charles
c. Woods, Episcopal Fresno, Cal
PRIMATE OF DIVINE LAW.
If man made law conflicts with the
divine law, as good Christians we
could do no less than disobey the law
of the state to follow the divine law.
Rev. j. E. Yount, Lutheran AK
ron, o.
FAULT FINDING. b
One can start the fault finding
business with very little capital. Only
three things in the world can hiss
snake, a goose and man.-ReV-
J. s. Montgomery, EpiScopal1an, Min
neapolis, Mimi
THE DIFFERENCE.
The essential difference between
religious and irreligious person is the
and purposes respecting right and
wrong.-Rev. Hiram Vrooman' Pres
byterian, Providence, r. l.
HOME AND FAMILY.
A baby carriage is more honorable
at the door than an automobile. Life
means more to the young man who
has home and a family to work for
and to live for-Rev. T. j. McDon-
aid, Roman Catholic. Utica, N. Y.
STUMBLING INTO HEAVEN.
III Fol- ~
get up again and stumble and fall
and get up again. 1t is better for
them to keep stumbling on and fin
ally stumble into heaven than not to
get there at all.-Rev. E. Vaughan
Methodist Santa Monica, Cal.
CHRISTIAN OBEDIENCE.
The nobIest word in the catalogue
of social virtue-i is loyalty. That IN
wolves obedience, and Christian obed1-
ence means doing the common neces-
Christ, which is the spirit of love and
sacrifice.-Rev. Harris G. Hale, Con-
gregationalist, Brookline, Mass.
THE GOSPEL NEEDED.
BY our undue reverence for haste,
by a too respectful attention to apos-
ties of strenuousness, we are dissipa-
ting our power and losing our pOise.
The gospel we need, individually and
nationally, is BLESSED are the peace
makers" Let us have peace consis-
tent with action and action that is
consistent with the utmost thorough
ness of human culture.-Rev. E. S.
Meredith, Unitarian, Roxbury, Mass.
THE CHURCH AND NEW ERA.
The church of the future must min
ister to the entire man. It must har-
monte all true men and women into
one great body for the service of hu-
manity. 1t must be free and leave all
It's adherents free. 1t must put pre-
MUM on intelligence rather than on
traditional cant and sanctimonious
Journalism 1t must be fraternal in
spirit sunny in disposition and prac-
teal in the application of its theories.
Rev. c. c. Pierce. Baptist, Los An
geles, Cal
FRIENDSHIP
True friendship manifests itself in
action not feelings The world is cold
md Indifferent toward the need of men.
We long for friends to cheer US In the
struggle of life, to help US in the time
If need. Love cements OR friendship
ard enables US to place the best con-
,truction upon every mans life. Love
overlooks all distinctions as to caste,
lass or people 1t dignifles all labor.
It casts out of the heart and life all
hat is opposed to happiness, virtue and
peace. 1t conquers passion, overcomes
cride, malice, anger. hatred and re-
7enge. Love tunes all the chords of
ife to heavenly music and turns discord
nto harmony and chaos into order
Rev. Wesley Wiggin, Methodist Epis-
,opal, WoilaStoll. Mass.
THE GOLDEN AGE.
The golden age, the dream of poetry,
he ideal of philosophy and the prayer
II religion, is not only the avowed hope
If Christianity but it also is the goal
IF all Christian eloquence, devotion
md labor Christ was the founder of
spiritual commonwealth. which looks
for a CITY whose builder and whose
maker is God" in which through the