The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings OF
All Denominations,

III
The things that are of the utmost i'm
and new character.-Rev. J. E. McCon-
nell. 'Congregationalist, Providence, r. 1.
HOW GOD USES MUSIC.
Music is one of Gods avenues of speak
and aspirations.-Rev. G. A Jameson,
Presbyterian, Tottenville. n. Y
KNOWLEDGE AND PERSONALITY.
Personality is the basis of all our
and substantial objects of our knowledge.
Rev; w. A. Cameron, Baptist, London,
EARNEsTNEss.
If the will. the heart and the conscience
of man are sincerely set upon single OBJ
ject the laws of reason can be overcome.
York.
FIRST REAL LOVE.
Christ.s love for man was the first real
love and the base of religion, and mans
was secondary. Gods love for mankind
caused him to suffer because he beheld
power and high ideals in man.-Rev. f.
b. Short, Methodist, Salt Lake City.
AN EARTHLY HEAVEN. -
The home is the place where character
is grown. 1t is the one place on earth
which can become the most like heaven.
1t is there that love and sympathy dwell.
There may be enemies and treacheries
without but within its sacred Enclosure
is heaven if love and harmony only dwell
there.
Though with pictures hung and gilded
Home Is where affection calls,
REV. DR.. Charles Bayard Mitchell,
Methodist Episcopal, Chicago.
A LIFE OF PROGRESS.
The Christian life demands progress.
life of a Christian as being one of de-
structfon and denial-the destruction of
This is a wrong conception. 1t is a life
of activity, lie in which one is contin-
ually pressing toward the mark, forget
ting the things that are behind. The
secret lies in filling our lives with good
acts that we have no room for evil
fiji the lusts of the flesh ours is a posi-
tive life, a life of creating new desires
rather than the crushing of old ones. 1t
must be life of progressively. Charles
d. Trexler, Lutheran, Brooklyn
OUTCOME OF HUMILITY.
The cultivation of humility has brought
forth unnumbered benefits to the world.
human intercourse called courtesy which,
with its twin sister, chivalry, constitutes
by an age of darkness to an age of light
Into political and International relations
it has infused spirit of Cancellation and
grace. In its social aspect it has stood
for mutual consideration and recognt-
ton of the rights and privileges of all
men without regard to CONDITION, creed
or color 1t has tanned the ferocity of
disputants and tempered the bitterness
of partisans. In qualifying the dogmatism
of the scientist and the critic and the the
ologian it has brought down the mighty
from their seats. Humility is a virtue for
which Christianity Is most largely re-
sponsible in our modern world.-Rev. DIR.
St. Clair Hoster, Episcopalian, Brooklyn.
WORKS INSPIRED BY FAITH
A man attains to full faith by the ven
turesome Identification of ones life with
the ideal value of existence: Faith is
not manufacture &c of INA, man. ,a Il Is work
laid hold of, not to lay hold OF. 1t must
be power which apprehends us. which
stand Gods meaning; therefore they pro-
claim the future, dare to go ways from
to reality which is not there yet, which
will be there, though. and which Is com
ing. If faith is Gods work scr then we can
to faith. Yet it depends much on our
selves. Faith is work of God and yet
a deed of man. We must meet Gods work
with our work. The faith which God Gre
ates is call. an enticing; we must an
swer in faith. It Is really e,f =, perhaps til. the
faith, to keep It, to stand by it. To have
faith is to venture on faith, to do things
ian, Chicago.
PRAYER AS A CHANNEL TO THE
DIVINE.
You have seen 9 reservoir lying high
among the hills. There is the life giving
water in abundance, yonder the channel
through which runs a shallow stream, the
of eitys 81 need the gates are raised and
the surging, life giving flood pours down
the shrgnken channel, filling it to the fun
lifts the floodgates that stand between
the divine fullness and our humanity. 1t
opens the soul and mind and eventually
the body to the thrush of the eternal in its
fullness. All beauty, all truth, all peace,
are with God. In our dealings with ordi-
nary life we shut them away from US
We lead lives that are partial and fretted
and anxious. Fear and hatred, both of
which are attributes of the partial and
incomplete being, not of the perfect be-
come our masters. They torture and
harass and drive you who go to business
and you who stay at home with the chill
dren or go to some woman's club. There
is Just one remedy for it all-that is. to
open the life to the divine.-Rev.. Lewis T.