The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-04
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Determinations.

Oh All DENOMINATIONS.
Liberty, that dear possession of our
land and race, is lightly treated by
some, but it's cost was struggle and
tears and blood.-Rev. Joseph l.. Wall
ker, Methodist, Aurora. Ill.
RELIGION LIKE WATER.
Religion is as free today as it was
at the time our Lord was in person
on earth; but. like water. it costs
something for its OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
L. M. Zimmerman. Lutheran, Balti-
more.
THE SIN AND THE CURE.
There is but one prime cause for
all social disorder. That is sin against
only one cure. That is the applied
gospel of Christ.-Rev. Frark W.
Luce, Neutrality-suspicious. Cleveland
. WORK AS DID THE MASTER.
Let us work with all our might. as
the Master worked, as God works, and
success will surely come. Onlv we
must be sure the work is what God
wishes US to do. and we must look
to him for strength and a blessing
Rev, Floyd w Tomkins, Presbyterian.
Philadelphia.
PROGRESS is SLOW.
Human minds pass over the same
intellectual paths made by their fore
fathers long ago. and when any new
idea comes to uproot the dead one it
will first have to break through the
crust of human mathematician.
Herbert S. Bigelow, Peoples Church,
Cincinnati.
CHRIST IN A MANS LIFE.
If the Christ stands in a mans life
for anything, it is that he is able to
make men here and now more buoy
ant and cheerful, radiant and hopeful,
amiable and sweet, joyous and san
guine, than they could otherwise pos
sibly hope to be.-Rev. Arthur j.
Francis, Congregationalist, Chicago.
CHURCH UNITY.
We have made mistakes in the past
but we need not repeat or perpetuate
them. comic paper offered advice
which the church might well follow
each other thrust should initiate the
plutocrats and organize trust. =
Rev. A Fl. Thompson, Methodist Epis
copal, Washington.
AN ENCOURAGING SIGN.
Old lines of cleavage and separation
battered down. Many of the leaders
in the different religious faiths have
been led to comprehend that there is
connecting link between all man
kind; that there is unity: that we all
have one thing in common-the
couraging, and it indicates a better
condition for mankind in the future
than In the past.-Rabbi David Phil
lipson, Jewish. Cincinnati.
It1E hlNGDOD1 Ut NIOO
The surest thing in the world is the
civilizations, institutions and creeds,
which were supposed to be permanent,
have hardly left their dust on the
paths that the feet or the servants OF
Christ have made down the slopes of
the centuries. To have ones life work
permanent it must be a part of this
kingdom of God. The kettle of the
selfish life sings as it bo1ls, but at
last becomes empty and melts in the
fire.-Rev. Charles L. White, Baptist,
Waterville, Me.
ORTHODOXY NOT AN ISSUE.
The great principles of religion
which Unitarianism represents are
coming TO their own in all churches.
And that is well for religion and for
the church. Orthodoxies are out of
date, as we'll in religion as elsewhere.
Religion must show capacity TO
progress. New times require new in
| terpretations of religion The vital
| issues today are the materialism OF
much of modern thought and life and
| the social application of religion and
| the social efficiency of the church. Let
people stop criticising each other'
definitions of Christianity and meet
great principles of Christian life
Rev. Minot Simmons, Unitarian,
| Cleveland, o.
HEROISM OF DANIEL.
Daniel stands prominent among the
heroes of Bible history. The charm
| ing story of his life has been an in
! spiration and help TIC many man in
| the crisis of his life. In him was that
heroic element much needed today. He
was at a crisis AS prisoner in a
faraway land two courses lay before
him. One promised to make him lead
| captive's life, while the other, on the
condition that he smother his con-
/ science and ego with the crowd of
Ifered him freedom and the spiendors
of the kings court. The glamour OF