The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-31
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.
Mans greatness is not that he Is
lost, but that he may be found.-Rev.
Ign.
MORAL GOODNESS.
Life Is sham and a failure unless It
is success in moral goodness.-Rev. t.
J; Mcdonald. Roman Catholic, Utica.
N. Y.
TROUBLESOME ENEMY.
Indifference is one of our greatest
way for others.-Rev. S. H. c. Rurgin,
Methodist. San Antonio, Tex.
SHALLOW SATIRE.
It IS shallow satire which se=ks to
obserVances as mere manacles or warts
upon the hands of freemen.-ReV. &. Z.
Nash, Unlversalist, Los Angeles, Cal.
THE PAST AND FUTURE.
The future will differ from the past
according to the quality of tha present
choices and volitions made by men am.
women.-Rev. DR.. Charles W. MCCor-
mick, Methodist Episcopal, Brooklyn.
EXCLUSIVE RELIGION.
Our religion is an exclusive one, as
exclusive as light is exclusive of dark
ness, as inertia is exclusive of monlen-
tum, as life is exclusive of death
Rev. David ]. BurreH, Reformed, New
York.
THE SOUL.
The soul is a mechanism and is not
self propulsive. Like a ship, 1t asks the
winds to fill it's sail; like a car, it asks
power to drive the wheels.-Rev
Newell Dwight Hills, Congregational
ist, Brooklyn.
DISCIPLINE THE APPETITEs.
If the biceps require the dumb bells,
if the intellect requires mathematics,
Iosics and classics, so the appetite and
desires require careful dtsciplinlng II
the fullest life is to be obtalned.-Rev
A. A. Brown. EpiscopaIian, Akron, O.
GODS KNOWLEDGE.
Knowledge of God may be fully yours
and mine if with all our hearts we seek
it, if we will only give his spirit ftllr
play with our spirit with open heart
and conscience to receive his guidance
and teaching.-Rev. George a. Smith,
Presbyterian. Glasgow.
THE RIGHT SIDE.
An awakened conscience must be
awake to the things to which con-
science must be applied Conscience
drives man to the right side, bur in
telligence. reason. judgment, must first
tell him which side is the right side.
Rev. A. J. Bailey, Reformed church,
Brooklyn.
MAKE OR BREAK US.
The ideals of life are what make or
break us. Ideals are reckoning hands
us to something. we have not
yet attained. They are responsible for
all material progress. The discoveries
have been led to lay hold of their
quests by virtue of their reckoning
ideals.-Rev. DR.. Charles Bayard Mitch
ell Methodist Episcopal. Chicago.
LIES TIDES.
The tides of life flow in and Will ebb
out-thousands of throbbing hearts
sands of aching brains when ours no
longer are busy, thousands of toiling
hands when ours have ceased from
their labors, thousands of weary feet
,vN11 tod hn
ney. on the morrOW's morrow the
end will come for US. and we shall go
hence to return no more forever
Rev. DIR. Newell Dwight Hills, Con
gregationaIist. Brooklyn.
IMPORTANCE OF OUR HABITS
Our virtues are habits as much as
cur vices. Honor, courage, purity,
prayer and kindness are
habits as much as are swearing,
and lying. When this
truth is once perceived it makes a
evolution in conduct. Morality with
many consists in trying to correct evil
1abits rather than in striving to form
good ones. Human life is largely au-
.omatic. We are in reality walking
bundles of habits" To each sort of
we have an automatic, !
'eady made response. The sort of hab- |
is we are forming is therefore of the
ng habits of some kind whether we
attend to them or not. We should
strive. therefore, to acquire such habits
IS will strengthen and improve our
De Witt L. Pelton, Epis- |
,opalian, Fordham, N. Y.
SHIELD OF THE BELIEVER.
The believer is to feel that God is |
lot only"a creator but shield. At
every step and in every trial over us
s omnipotence and around us is omni- |
presence. God does not only create |
is, but in a providential way there is
. holy, wise, powerful, preserving and
Governing power that inspires conf |
lence and conduces to peace. A sense
If Gods ncarness and defending pow !
r will elevate the mind and strength |
n the soul against life's trials and /
Doubts dishonor God, and
II necessary worry over the present and
Lnxiety for the future rob life OF its |
laDDiness There is nothing in the /
1ltlIre to discourage or depress, for |
5od is our shield and exceeding great
eWard. Tie future may have marvel
= surprise, but his mercy is under life
nd death, and the believer is still able
{. say, Thou art with me-. God can
lot change. He must be faithful to
lis word He is the God of hope and
ife and gives the assurance OF /
IIhiIr1e immortality His name is our
lea. his righteousness cur robe, ms
race our support, his presence our
ouafort AID his promise the gift OF
verlastinG life. To doubt Gods keep
ng and Shielding power is to do dis
onor TO nrfinite being and perfection.
Rev, DR.. John Lee Allison, Presby-
erian, Washington II