The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-04
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the eTachings Of
All Denominations.

All Denominations.
We must not expecr to go through
the world without being nisunder-
stood. Our best friends frequently
misunderstood US, and our enemies al
ways do.-Rev. J. w. Rrougher, Hap-
fist, Los Angeles, Cal.
ACTIVITY IS ESSENTIAL
If man isn't active he is passive.
And passivity means infection. Ac-
tivity sterilizes, immunizes; passivity
poisons. The peStilential marsh is
made of stagnant waters, but quick
ening is life, and quickening is action.
Rabbi Harrison, Hebrew, st. Louis.
HEAVEN NOT PLACE OF REST.
have no sympathy with the ig-
noble idea of heaven being a place of
rest. How is it possible to think of
an eternal soul as an eternal loafer ?
believe We will find immortal OPP
portunities for doing good in the next
world. God will not tolerate slug
CARDS in his company.-Bishop F. NJ.
Bristol, Methodist. Buenos Ayres.
BAPTISM NOT ESSENTIAL.
There is no superstition in the
darkest depths of heather Africa
worse than that which says that a
little babe will go to hell if 1t is not
baptized don't care whether by
immersion or any other method. I've
been called up in the middle of the
night by people who want me to bap-
tie little child for fear that some
how or other that little one would
go to hell if didn't get there in time
DR.. w. G. Biting, Baptist, st. Louis.
YOUTH AND PURITY.
Youth and purity should always go
hand in hand. A clean way should al
it is the way of a full and vigorous
life. A clean way, or. in other words,
a pure life, largely depends upon two
things. There must be forethought,
plan, preparation, and that according
to a given standard. One of the great
pie in this reckless age is thoughtless-
ness.-Rev. w. G. Boyle, Methodist,
Duluth, MINI.
EXTRAVAGANCE.
The extravaganza of some weddings
is becoming abominaple Houses are
furnished not to make beautiful homes,
but to spend more money than some
one else. In one house we are told
there is a, nursery with a silver bath
tub in 1t, the other furnishings match
ing it. Luxury breeds ennui, so that
these vulgar people who thus arrange
dinners with guests in gondolas, mon
keys at table, women creeping out of
pies and costly favorS have to rush
from one excitement to another, so
that their lives become simply a chase
of wild and extravagant novelties
Rev. Frederick Lynch, Congregational,
New York.
LOVE AND RIGHT
The law of love when applied in prac-
teal life neceSSitateS continually the
question, What is right? With the ask
ing of the question comes the obliga-
ton to answer it in the actual doing
of the right. This actual doing of the
right is righteousness. But the idea
and sense of justice are inseparable
from the work of righteousness. There
fore love is the conditioning idea with
| out which justice could not exist. Thus
| from love spring justice, honesty, fdel-
| ity, truth, devotion. self sacrifice, pur-
| ity and courage. Every king becoming
grace of human character is EMBODIED
| in its opulent bosom.-Bishop Samuel
Fallows, Episcopal, Chicago.
REASONS FOR HEALTH.
Nothing can be more heinous or un-
| just to our heavenly Father than to
maintain that he sends disease; that
| in the culture tubes of his MYSTERIOUS
| laboratory he is designedly producing
| all sorts of infectious germs and scat
tering them, like the contents of Pan
dora's box, among helpless and vic
timized race. Narcotics and stimu-
| Iants and gluttony and uEchastity and
neglect of hygiene and sanitation are
prolific sources of disease. In the in
terest of the conservation of human
life every tobacco store and whisky
saloon ought to be closed.
The day is coming when funerals
of any but aged persons will be q curl
osity and when the 100000 persons
who are sick each day in the United
States will be practically well and
sickness will go out of fashion.-Rev.
c. E. Locke, Methodist, Los Angeles.
THE CURSE OF WEALTH
AS people we Americans are in
danger of being overwhelmed with the
vulgarity of wealth. Men and wom-
en- while growing rich have grown
loud and course and bloated. They
lack culture. They make vulgar dis
play of their money. Their dining
rooms are larger than their Libraries.
They have heightened their belts and
contracted their hat bands. 1 do not
denounce the possession of money. ]
believe that money honestly and justly
earned may be a testimony to capaci-
ty and character. Christ never de-
anounced the mere possession of money,