The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-26
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

Gems Cleaned From the Teachings Of
All Denominations.
The finer feelings are like the wind
men know not whence they come
nor whether they go.-Rev. DR.. New
ell Dwight Hills, ngregationalist,
Brooklyn.
FAITHS ANCHORAGE.
are in the world Christ. the Rock of
Ages, will be the fnvincible anchor
age Of faith.-Rev. DR.. John E. White,
Baptist, Atlanta, Go.
AN INFLUENCE IN RELIGION.
A great influence in religion is the
melancholy man. The men who have
been in the torments of hell make the
great poets and the great orators. We
can't have depth without pain.-Rev
DIR. S. P. Cadman, Congregationalist,
Brooklyn.
ON THE HOMESPUN ORDER.
Would that our lives in this modern
age could be more on the homeSpun
order! They would then stand unfair
nished the wear and tear, the tempta-
lions and trials of every day.-Dr.
Charles Luther Kloss, Congregation
alist, Philadelphia.
REDEEMING CRIMINALS.
The Son of Man valued law and its
penalties as agencies for the redemp-
ton, not the destruction, of criminals.
Christ abhorred crime, but he mingled
with criminals III the nope OIL IeQeoLl-
ing them-Rev. James B. Clayton,
Baptist, Washington.
FAITH
Have faith in God, for faith is sun
shine. Faith is a mothers arms in
folding her child. Faith is the helms
man at the wheel. Faith is the pole
star which directs our course from
shore to shore.-Rev. DIR. L. M. Zim-
norman, Lutheran, Baltimore.
TO BECOME AN IMMORTAL"
IL Il
realize that it is part Of the great plan
of Godi BY bringing our 1oftfest Wis
ions to bear upon the practical things
of life we learn to do our best work
and bring forth evidences Of the divin-
ity within us. Our work will not be
that way we may become one Of the
'fmmortals'-Rev. J. W. Roberts,
Congregationalist, New York.
WORLDLY PROSPERITY.
If religion cannot stand the closest
scrutiny. throw it away, for it is no
good. If God cannot stand the same
test, then reject God We cannot
doubt God, for the blessing of His
spirit is within us. The desire for
worldly prosperity is the curse of the
nation and of the church. We today
mix up too much our worldly prosper
ity with religious victory. In fact, our
idea Of God has become worldly pros
perity.-Rev. J. Howard Wells, Meth
odist Episcopal, Washington.
BEST SEED TO SOW.
The best kind of seed to SOW is love
true as a mothers, sympathy like an
eternal spring, generosity whose hand
cannot be closed, loyalty SURPRISING de-
votion to country, purity that vies
with the mountain snow wilderness,
truth as sure as the rising sun and as
rich in he1pfu1ness, charity that dis
penses its gifts as the flower its fra
GRANGE, sacrifice that counts no cost
and keeps near the cross, friendship
that knows no superior save in Christ.
Rev James A. Matheson, Presbyter-
ian, Quincy, Mass.
UNITY OF HUMAN NATURE.
The unity of human nature is a fact
of the eravest Importance when we at
tempt to estimate the forces of the
spiritual life. No faculty acts in iso-
lation. The intellect acts upon and is
acted upon by the conscience and the
emotions Wrongdoing disturbs the
mental balance. Doubt grows on the
soil of sinful indulgence. The con-
seriousness of religious difficulties
should lead US to greater carefulness
of life. IF we are full of doubts, then
let us make as sure as we can that we
have not blocked up by willful sin any
window of the spirit--Rev. H. Hers
ley Henson. Canon of Westminster Abb
hey, London
VALUE OF EXPERIENCE.
Every experience we pass through