The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-20

SOHdl dST0SdDl6u0SS WIN the dD1llCy TO
do things is apt to find that things
come his way.-W. J. Beecher.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.
Sincerity. honesty and humility are
nearer heaven than virtue, which is
proud, Jealous and bigoted.-Rev.
John Hopkins Dennison, Congrega-
tionalist, Boston.
THE MOTHER OF WORSHIP.
Children may not grasp our way of
worship, but they have something bet
ter-they have wonder, which is the
mother of worship.-Rev. DR.. Frank
Crane, Methodist, Chicago.
CAUSE FOR REJOICING.
If there are others of Gods chill
dren who are better off than we are.
why, it is all in the family, and let
us rejoice with those that rejoice
Rev. Charles F. Aked, Baptist, New
York.
OPENER OF THE INNER LIFE.
Prayer opens the inner life for the
absorption of that spiritual energy
that holds creation up, just as deep
breathing opens the lungs for the alb
sorption of that mysterious fluid that
sustains physical Iife.-Rev. DR..
Frank G. Smith. Congregationalist,
Chicago.
Architectural MoNsTRosI-
TIES.
Air castles like dreams, are archi-
tectural monstrosities. Yet 1 would
not entirely depreciate the value of
air castles. as our greatest statesmen
and scientists have viewed their
greatest works first as air castles
Rev H. L. Smith, Methodist, Pitts
burg.
THE TRUE. IDEAL WOMAN.
There are some women whose souls
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judging from the size of the hats. must
be exceedingly large. These women
are worm eaten leaves of the foliage
of the social trees. The true, ideal
woman must not ape mans nature
nor aspire to political preferment. but
must think like a woman, love like
woman, dress like a woman and act
like woman.-Rev. Father Michael,
Roman Catholic, Chicago.
DON'T NEGLECT PUBLIC WOR-
SHIP.
We can not afford to neglect public
worship. We can not preserve ma
tional righteousness. To secure this
Righteousness we must abide by the
rules God gave mankind. The man
who truly worships God, like Chris
tan in Pilgrims Progress" receives
an armor which protects him from
many of the things that annoy his fell
lows. Sincere worship and faith in
God bring the peace that passes all
understanding. They bring gladness
to the heart.-Rev. Dr. Charles Col
man. Baptist Philadelphia.
INFLUENCE OF ENVIR ONMENT.
Present circumstances or environ
ment is possessed of great good for
the one capable of accepting that
good, and yet it is even possible to
debauch a good thing and make it
evil A young woman once expressed
to Hogarth, the great artist satirist
wish to draw caricature. He strongly
advised against such profession,
stating that it was a faculty not to
be envied. BY the long practice of
caricature he had lost the enjoyment
that was not distorted. He enslaved
himself with his satiristic drawings
Rev. Arthur J. Francis, Congrega-
tionalist, Chicago.
THE PERSONAL TOUCH.
For those who would follow Christ
there is nothing like the personal
touch. The real way, the only way,
Of Christ1ike service Is the way of the
hands. Too many of US are trying to
serve him by indirection. at arms
length, through a substitute. 1t is the
personal impress that counts Let your
gifts and service carry a bit of your
self with it. Believe me, the clasp of
your own hand and the greeting with
your own voice will mean more to the
poor, the lonely, the troubled or the
sick than all the generosity of money
or flowers that you may send.-Rev.
DR.. Merle H. Anderson, Presbyterian,
st. Louis.
NEED OF GREAT MORAL UPRIS-
ING.
We need most sorely the bringing
of a new spirit into our commercial
and industrial affairs, spirit of fair
ness and justice which shall desire
and find a way to make the division
of wealth among US a more sane and
equitable one. which shall give to la
Dor everywhere its full and proper
share of the wealth which labor and
capital together produce. We need a
great moral uprising, a religious and
social crusade by the earnest people
that most sacred of all human institu-
have not realized the significance. the
inevitable, infalIible effect upon our
life as a people of the appalling con-
dition which our statistics now show
in regard to divorce. A nation which
sins against the sacredness of the mar
rage tie is doomed--Rev. DR.. Will
liam T. Manning. Episcopalian. New
York.
OUR DUTY TO BE HAPPY.
When we study the faces OF bust
ness men hurrying along our streets
and watch them at work in Office and
factory we are struck with their lack
of happiness. We go into the haunts
of the city's poor, where we expect to
find much misery. But If we turn
away from the poverty stricken dis
tricts and abide in the homes OF lux