The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-06
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.

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of All Denominations.
1t is not 50 much marriage, but the
| sacredness of marriage, which must
| be recognized James Glib
bons, Roman Catholic, Baltimore
LIBERTY
Liberty is never the ability of a man
to follow his own sweet will except the
man wills his own good and others
Rev. DR.. T Calvin of McClelland,
Presbyterian, Brooklyn
TO MAKE HOMES HAPPY
There is not enough religion in many
homes More Bible reading and more
praying would help keep happy many
on otherwose unhappy home.-Rev. L.
NJ. Zimmerman, Lutheran, Baltimore
EMPTY LIFE
Thought without faith is unveracious
or blind, conduct without obedience is
ruin, and life without the sense OF
eternal and divine companionship is
bitterly empty.-Rev- Gains Glenn At
kins. Congregattonal1st, Detroit, M1cn-
THE WAY TO GREAT EXALTATION
The church must go back to the
humble people of this land If she Is
again to lead the nation to the h1gh
heavens and the bright stars. and what
les beyond She must humble nerseT
in order that she may be greatly ex-
aIted--Rev- Cyrus T Brady, Ep1sco-
paIian, Toledo, O.
WHAT LIFE IS.
Meat and bread, toll and worry. get
to life? No! Life is more than meat
and the body than raiment- To truly
live IS to truly realize in thought and
feeling the truths of the spirit =
Thomas B Gregory. Universalist, New
York
PRACTICAL RELIGION.
Too much of our religion. both as it
is preached and as it is practtced, lacks
life Practical religion must concern
itzeIf with the saloon, with politics.
with questions of better homes and
better home life for the poor, but the
way to strengthen religion is not by
debasing it--Rev- Charles F Aked,
Baptist, New York
TO RESIST TEMPTATION.
It is sometimes argued that the
temptations of our great cities are
such that they can not be resisted
With good sense and Gods help they
can be Shun evil thoughts, Danish
bad books, avoid evil companions as
YOU would q peStileuce. and you can
be pure and strong, master of your
own soul. a blessing and not a curse
TO others-Rev. Samuel H Woodrow,
Congregationalist, Washington.
HOPE OF PEACE
The helplessness of a little child is
the hope of the race The long infancy
of a baby, the long adolescence of the
boy is a long series of open doors, a
long appeal TO love, a long plastic op
portunity. The gains Of the race are
registered in our children The life of
the spirit. the concerns of religion, the
increase Of goodness, the triumph of
the kingdom. must come, as all other
gains come, through the doors which
childhood opens.-Rev. Gains Glenn
Atkins, Congregationaist. Detroit,
Mich
MAN AS \ SPIRIT.
We do not know ourself any more
than do we know the infinite mystery
of the universe As beams come from
the sun and have in them the mystery
OF the sun, so do we come from God
and have in ourself the mystery Of
Cod Man is spirit, not body, and
therefore he is as unknowable and un-
fathornabIe as God As the moth is
capable of slipping out of its chrysaIis
and entering upon a larger life. so man,
a spirit. is capable Of slipping out OF
the body at death and entering upon
q grander stage of beiEg--Rev John
Reid Shannon. Methodist Episcopal,
Washington
WHY GOD PERMITS SUFFERING
Evils are Of two kinds. physical and
moral Inseparably associated with
these are two corresponding forms OF
suffering Evil with its consequent
suffering consists in a want OF adjust
ment with ones circumstances. As hu-
man beings our circumstances are OF
TWO cIasses-thOse belonging to the