The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03

nave worked IN the 1Sland OF recent
years and there are tens of thousands
| of native Christians.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.
You may measure all the world by
| the cross. With 1t as touchstone you
may measure the truth of all things
| Rev. William p. Brett, Roman Catho-
| lie, Boston.
| BUILDING CHARACTER.
| Greed Is necessary in the building of
the character. 1t must dominate a
| man If his character is to be built on
rock."-Rev. A. P. Wedge. Baptist,
Lowell, Mass.
FORGET THE PAST.
| Don't worry, don't be depressed over
what might have been, but let the dead
past bury its dead and look forward to
the goal, casting your burdens on
the Lord.-Rey. Byron Holley, Episco-
palian, New Orleans.
LIVING CHURCH.
| The idea of living church is not q
| soulless corporation, but a body with
faculties and powers, able to receive
and assimilate truth and communicate
| it to others.-Rev. J. r. Stevenson,
| Presbyterian, New York.
A BEAUTIFUL LIFE.
A strong, beautiful and useful life is
God working. in a life and looking out
| through the windows Of the soul in
which he is an invited guest.-Rev. Dr.
| Charles Edward Locke, Methodist
| Episcopal, Los Angeles.
TO GET PEACE.
| If you want to have peace as an ac-
compartment. peace as a friend and
| companion, peace as the bloom and
| blossom of things, the music ineffable
| sounding forth in the life, let Jesus
Christ come in and take the throne
and you will get peace.-"Gypsy"
| CT ole nd
| THE CHRISTIAN ARMOR.
The whole armor of faith" is the
warriors equipment and the great
sword of the Spirit" which is the
| weapon the Christian soldier can WELD
| 1t was the Masters defense in resist
ing Satan's temptations. The Chris
tian must be familiar with this
Rev. A. j. Hawk, Presbyterian.
Brockton, Mass.
| MANS INCOMPLETE LIFE.
We play a little game; we do our
/ little work. At night. like children, we
are called to rest, just as a mother
calls her reluctant child and puts him
to quiet sleep for rest, to rise fresher
and brighter on another morning. 9th
err creations of God are completed be-
| fore they die, but no man is complete
in this life. for what man ever lives a
full and complete life?-Rev. DIR. Ly-
man Abbott, Congregationalist, Brook
| Ign.
| STIMULANT TO THE SOUL.
Il We are living in an age of intensity.
To offset the nervous and soul wreck
ing pace Of the people they need to
turn aside for religious meditation.
When one enters religious avenues OF
prayer and worship he is placing him
i self in a favorable attitude for God to
call to him. The church calls to men
to turn aside to it because it stands for
something definite. 1t stands for some
thing besides it's music and the mes
sage of the minister. It stands for re-
pentance, reformation, faith health.
| happiness, hope and heaven Into this
religious organism men turn to renew
their spiritual strength, to counteracr
the intensity Of the age and be of SER
vice to society. The church offers an
opportunity to each person to turn
aside from the work of the week for
worship and by association in Gods
house to impart oneself to others.
Christian growth is by groups. Chris
ton companionship cultivates Chris
/ tan continuity. The best way to per-
petuate oneself is by conservation to
the church and it's work. Christian
is a stimulant to the soul.-Rev. Alfred
r. Atwood, Congregationalist. Quincy,
Mass.
/ NEED OF UNITY IN RELIGION.
1t is time that the unity of the re-
| ligious spirit should be realized. That
is no true religion which divides men.
That is dogmatism; that Is sectarian-
ism. When religion is divided against
itself 1t becomes weak. Like the dis
rupted house, it cannot stand. Today
i the world calls for and even compels a
more fundamental unity. In the main
/ we rise or we fall, we suffer or we
prosper together. And as we would
make firm the foundation of our life
there is but one way-that we unite In
the hatred of all wrong. in the love of
Justice and truth in the Joy Of SER
vice. in the strength of that eternal
will which is revealed in the grandeur
of the universe in the moral law and
the conscience of man. We are unit
ing against the evil of preventable
disease. We are attacking the evil of
poverty by trying to overcome the con-
| 6itions that make 1.-THE insanitary
| homes, the bad environment of the
slum, the starvation wages. the terri
BILE wrong of child labor. Yet, strange
| Iy enough. the churches still keep
| apart One fellowship in great meas
| ure excludes another. Is 1T not pa
\ thetic sight? Would not Paul, If here,
| saw to us Whereas there are among
| YOU jealousy and strife, are we not
carnal?'' For this reason religion is
being discredited. Religion. like medi-
| cine suffers when doctors are divided
! by disagreements. Underlying all diff
/ ference there may always be the uiJt
of the spirit seeking for what Is true
and beautiful and Of good repute. Re-
ligion is one. 1t is the experience in
! every heart that unites man with God
| and with his fellow men. It is the
| striving of the finite after the Infinite.
1t is the life of God in the human sonL
| Therefore while maintaining our in
tellectual independence. let US see to
! 1t that the churches unite in this larger
| fellowship till the spirit of their re-
1igion is as great as the human heart
and as farreaching as human need
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