The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-17
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.
Prayer travels faster than light or
thought. AS soon as the prayer is
spoken God Is there. Prayer annihi-
iates distance. Before your prayer has
escaped your lips God is there with the
ansWer;-Rev A. H. Goodenough,
Methodist, Brooklyn.
CAN'T TEAR DOWN TRUTH.
You cannot sheer down nor laugh
down nor tear down nor burn down
Gods truth. Marshal all your prece-
dents, hurl all your vitupertaions and
themas-the truth will live will
grow No matter how forbidding the
surroundings it shall not perish
Bishop Fallows, Reformed Episcopal,
Chicago.
PROFESSION AND CONDUCT
The man who sings ''HalIelujah,
What Saviorl" and tnen defrauds
his neighbor; the woman seized by
emotional piety that stirs her into re-
i1glous ecstasy, but who proves a gos-
sip on the street and devil in the
home-these are common illustrations
OF the pernicious divorce between pro-
fession and conduct.-Rev. P H. Bar
ker, gregationalist, haywood, N. J.
WOMEN AND DRESS.
When woman allows her worship of
dress and her eagerness of physical
display to rob her even of her sense of
AAO0CSlys IC4 strongest weapon OF DIO-
lection, her strongest appeal to what
is noblest in man, she wholly violates
her nature and Gods intent She be-
comes the enemy of man instead of his
best friend and helper.=Rev. Dr..
Joseph krauskopf, Hebrew, st. Louis.
SINS OF SOCIETY
Society is everybody. When every
body is blamed one person is relieved
OF the specific responsibility. When
you read of the many political tangles
which daily arise you are tempted to
say society is rotten at the roots The
sins of society amount only to the
wrongdoings of the Individuals To re-
form society each one has to start with
himself.-Rev. T. o. Hall, UniversaIist,
New York.
DEFINITION OF RELIGION.
Jesus himself defined religion for US.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with all thy
soul and with all thy strength and thy
ne1ghbor as myself No one who calls
for ethical conduct and right living
could object to that definition. There
is surely enough of ethics and sociol-
ogy and philanthropy in that definition
to satisfy the most exacting and to win
the consent of every man in the street.
That is. a definition of the triangular
life-God, my neighbor and myself
Rev Hugh T. Kerr, Presbyterian, Chi
cago.
WANTS A LIBERAL RELIGION.
Religion is living your cwn life here
now, not getting to heaven. A man
reaches one of the greatest moments
of his life when he finds himself. I
have no patience with Christianity
with barbed wire fence around it.
like to fish, and I like to play cards,
and I have no time for religion which
seeks to regulate me by hard and fast
rules. Men should ask questions about
everything. There is more piety in one
-
ton points ever uttered in amen cor
ners.-Rev. w. c. Biting, Baptist, st.
Louis.
THE WORK OF THE CHURCH.
The modern church, I contend, has
no function to merely save souls. The
modern church shall be an educatives
a restraining and a controlling force.
1t shall take its place as the power to
help, mold and shape and direct this
mass of struggling humanity and make
out of this world here and now the
kingdom of God. Souls are not lost.
Anything that is lost doesn't know its
way, and the Lord knows that we all
know our way well enough. What is
needed is an institution that shall help
strengthen the will and ennoble the
personality so that it will do as well as
it knows. This is the work of the
modern church.-Rev. E. j. Prescott,
Unitarian, Sanford, Me.
RIGHTS AND DUTIES.
A woman prominent in social life
once said to me in Newport, IT do not
recognize any law, human or divine,
that can deprive husband or wife of
the right to separate and enter fresh
espousals when they do not live in
harmony together" 'tYcu speak," I
replied, "of your rights. your privil-
eyes. But you have not word to say
of your duties and obligatio All,
my brethren, IL men and women had
due consideration for their duties and
responsibilities their rights would take
care of themselves. There can be no
right where there are no correspond
ing obligations. There are no rights
against the law of God.-Cardinal Glib
bons, Roman Catholic. Baltimore.
FAITH AND DOUBT.
Faith is not the opposite of doubt,