The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-21
ECHOEs FROM THEsERMONS
What Topeka Pastors Said in Their
Pulpits on Sunday.

feet which disobedience has upon God,
but in the result Of il1egitimate conduct f
upon ourselves We are also told to
love the common brotherhood because,
however much hate may lead US to in
jure them. it Injuries us the more We
are eXhorteQ to obtain self mastery, to {
cultivate modesty and humility because
their oppoSltess seIf-lndulgence. AFRO
gance and pride, are harmful to the per-
son who INDUCES them. In all business /
and social life there is but one safe rule, T
and that is to do unto others Is we /
would have them to do unto us. There 4
may be cases where the application Of +
the rule would be incOnVenient; some /
tunes 1t might provoke business QlSaS- Z
ter, the law of the land might not al \
ways require it, but even though one
might save his business by a deviation +
from the rule which the letter of the +
law would permit and society refuse to 4
condemn, the man would do himself an I
almost irreparable harm in the impair +
ment and weakening of his moral char f
acter. The same is true with reference Z
to the motives which underlie conduct f
a person may be a good workman, studi- 1
Gus and INDUSTRIOUS but only that he (
may crafty q purely selfish ambition. 4
lie may succeed, but nothing can rec 4
ompense the harm he does his higher +
ma ure- Jesus Christ did f
not come into the world to make men
religious; it abounded in religions and I
Righteousness long before his time. But /
he did come to redeem them from I'M /
molly ambitions impure affections, bad 7
habits of thought and practices that /
they might cease to harm themselves. I
the body from the dominance of harm /
full appetites. the mind from ignorance, /
superstition, and the spirit from grOvel-
ing, because there can be no more pure
living, no life consistent with human
dignity and destiny without this re-
demptiOn. And the entire purpose of
/ the gospel is included in five simple syl-
tables; DO Ihyself No Harm" Man
/ redeemed loves God supremely, and his
nel5hb0r as himself. Self-lONe is pro-
life of sin. 1t estimates its own unduly.
1t leads to crime without cOmpunctiOn
I Of conscience. Love for God and hu
manity is its only antidote- When men
4 love Cod they are willing to live as he
/ Directs when they love their fellows.
4 crime ceases and thus loving and living
4 they cease to harm themselves A.
I s Embree. ID. d., First NJ r. church
THE REVIVAL NEEDED need
in our churches ard communities a re-
4 vival of pure and INDEBTED religion,
turning OF the hearts of men unto God,
/ a coming under the power oe the world
/ to come, more faith, and zeal and pray
I er, an uplifting into a higher spiritual
/ life We VINO are Christians need it.
The great world, busted with it's en-
/ terprises needs it. Many are praying
I for it, Some think they see indications
/ of its coming.
But there is no less need of a revival
I of righteousness, that there may be
+ honesty i'm politics. more justice, hon
or, charity, between man and man, less
crime, poverty, and misery everywhere
about U.S.
Christianity. as represented by its
[ adherents, ought to be q power which
makes for righteousness in this world
1T ought to be a foe TO bad govern
/ ment, piitical corruption. to the sa-
loon and all its kindred evils Tt ought
/ to make its influence felt against or
/ gained greed and oppression. We
/ need Christian rulers. Christian legis-
I latOrs, Christian voters Christian
newspapers. Christians at the plOW and
! forge and bench who Will turn out
Emf
/ the Master.
Christianity is the hope of the
( world, the mighty power of God which
/ is going to right its wrongs and swing
it back into the true orbits and when
/ spirituality is united to practical Chris
/ tian living, when faith works by love,
! when religion becomes an operating
/ force for the physical, moral, and splr-
/ itual redemption of humanity, then
Christianity Will have found its sphere
and entered upon it's true mission
Rev. L. BlakesIey, DID, First Congre-
LUKEW ESS-This is a symp-
tom of inner spiritual decay Like the
/ autumn winds, lux rmness is a breeze
from the frozen regions where nothing
I spiritual survives. 1t is a feeling of IN
concern amid spiritual blessings and
in the face of spiritual needs. 1t is the
/ freezing and thaWing of the ground
again and again. until little life is left.
/ With faith and fervor at a low ebb, 1T
/ covers the divine promises with the
pessinlisms of despair. LukeVarrnness
is nauseOus to God because 1t neutral
ICES the power of His word grfeves the
Holy Spirit, and hinders the progress
of Christianity. Whenever we are self
satisfied we are in the land Of luke
warnness, as When we turn the COM
/ forting doctrines of the gospel into
means of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The
way of escape from Laodicean luke
warmness is through a constantly PEN
/ ftential spirit and that through heart
work produced by the in-dweliing
Christ ena bling us to overcome and SIT
/ down with Him ON Ills throne. Ut
/ takes fulI-bIooded Omissions to reach
fuIl-blooded unbelievers- The SICK do
NOT visit the land OF icebergs for their
health. but they do find help at not
springs in all parts of the World.-HeN-
NJ. L. Thomas, DID, First Baptist
WHAT rs THE TEST or CHRIST
/ IAN DISCIPLESHIP2 What would
! he the result if in this city every
4 church member should begin to do as
Jesus would do2 Ut is not easy to go
into details of the result But we All
know that certain things would be inn
possible that are now pracuced by
church members
What would Jesus do in the matter
of wealth. How would he spend IT.
What principle would regulate his use
of money! Would he he likely to live
in great luxury, and spend ten tunes as
much on personal adornment and en-
tertainment as he spent to relieve the
needs of suffering humanity How
WQul4 Jesus ne -5tf ri lAet- III ll-- man
of money2Would he take rentals from
saloon and other disreputable property
or even from tenement property that
was so constructed that the inmates
had no such thing as a home and no
such possibility as privacy or cleanli-
ness2
What would Jesus do about the
great army of unemployed and desper-
ate, who tramps the streets and curse
the church or are Indifferent to it, lost
in the bitter struggle for the bread that
tastes bitter when it is earned. on ac-
count of the desperate conflict to get
it2 Would Jesus care nothing for
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