The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-05

produced in daily life. To large de-
gree Christians are the worlds Bible.
Every Christian should so live that ne
would in manly, sensible way remind
others of the strong character of Jesus
Christ--Rev. Albert Ehrgott, Baptist,
Cleveland, O.
LARGEST RET rms.
One of the most hopeful features of
the religious question today is the
realization that religion pays the larg-
est possible returns for the smallest
lnvestment.-Rev. E. w. Hunt, Unita-
rian, Boston.
POWER OF THE SPIRITUAL SELF.
A mans spiritual self pervades and
possesses his material body, just as
magnetism pervades and possesses
iron or as God pervades and possesses
the universe-Rey A Arundel, EpiS-
copalian Pittsburg.
INTERCHANGEABLE IN HIS VIGOR.
While all human institutions and
governments are subject to the law OF
the religion of Christ maintains her
Ylgor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Gibbons,
Roman Catholic, Baltimore.
CLEANING UP.
A cleaning up should be cleaning
up and not a moving around. 1t Will
not mean anything as a. whole to SHOW
Ell up a load of filth from one place and
simply move it to another. Rev. c.
Z. Guthrie, Episcopalian; Washington
VICTORY AND DEFEAT.
Defeat and failure in business or
life, in our ambition or plans are re-
suits we never welcome. Yet there
are many victories which are worse
than defeats and many apparent fail
ures which are victories.-Rev. F. L.
Phalen, Unitarian, Worchester, Mass.
LIES PROBLEM
Life is the essence of being, and
there is nothing great and lasting but
life. 1t is the only reality. the one
permanent thing that extends through
all eternity. There must be some best.
some right way of living, and the
problem is to find it.-Rev. c. E. Nash.
Methodist, Galesburg, Ill.
WHEN RELIGION BECOMES REAL.
If religion is friendship with God
and If God has entered into compan-
ionship with US then religion as friend
beautiful reality. Mrs. Browning
asked Charles Kingsley to tell her the
secret of his happy and beautiful life,
and he replied to her sympathetic re-
simple and as sublime as human
friendship. Religion is not conun-
drum or puzzle problem, but the
meeting in the secret place of the soul
of man and God.-Rev. DR.. Hugh 7.
Kerr, Presbyterian, Chicago
APPRECIATION OF THE DEAD.
If you love those who have gone be-
fore do not hold up their beautiful
traits of character as mere show for
but manifest your appre-
your own life. 1t is far better to see
these marks of identity in your life
today than to preserve them only as
sad memory. Mourning over the past
and those connected with it roes them |
no good and is a surrender of yourself
% the influence of your weakness and
But a brave taking up of
what they have laid down and faith |
jul continuance of the good for which |
you honor them will be a consistent |
manifestation of the sincerity of your
owe for them.-Rev. DR.. William
White Wilson, Episcopalian, Chicago.
A GOOD RELIGION.
A religion which can only pardon
and purify and then leave the soul
helpless against the powers of evil, al
owing it to yield hopeiessly to its enc
mics, it not good religion. If a re-
igion is worth anything more than a
name or a mere make shift it can par
Ion, purify and protect the soul. A
good religion must meet the daily |
needs and exigencies of the believer. |
1t must have a practical value. 1t
must be something more than. sun
lay faith or a dying prop. 1t must |
give spiritual wisdom and insight, thus |
enc to discriminate in matters |
Of moral action. 1t must give spir- |
tual strength to fight successfully its |
spiritual foes. 1t must have resources |
If comfort amid the sorrows of life |
ind peace and good cheer to give away |
when the storms sweep the soul
Methorist Episcopal, Chicago