The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-08

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during the war. Gladstone in high Of
hce-au were men Of prayer When
men learn to make prayer their bust
ness they can take their business to
God in prayer. Too many business
men are prayerless. Daniel was loyal
to truth It was duty. and that one
word makes heroes everywhere. Re
HgiOn is no hindrance to success in
this world. Goodness pays. Daniels
life is the ideal for young men, The
qualities that made him great viii
make any man great--Rev. M. f. Nc
Kirahan, United Presbyterian church.
A MODEL CHURCH.-Ihe best evil
dence of the divinity of Christ is found
in what he did rather than in what he
said. John was impatient because
Christ did not assert his AIessiahship in
words. John must believe Jesus is
Gods son from what he read in the
ancient roll of Isaiah, and the fulfill
ment of that prophecy in the life and
character of Christ. The message
Jesus sent to John has a special sig
nihcance in all time. If John in prison
ought to believe, is there not abundant
proof for us2 Indirectly yet forcibly
the message is a commission to dlScl-
pies everywhere. 1t explains how
Jesus was fulfilling his divine commits
sion, and may his disciples do IN the
world what he began to do. There must
be an onward movement, along all
lines, in the church of Christ in all parts
of the cities and country. Not so
many theological lectures and more
heart sermons Doing for others is a
command, a duty and a privilege. To
minister even at cost of life, for he
that loseth his life shall find it, There
! is too much of the club spirit and
not enough evangelism in our churches
today. May the churches of Topeka
not have the spirit which found ex-
| preston in one of leaders of city
church in these words; we don't
want our church to go down into this
missionary business" Bold, defiant,
unchristian spirit!
Teach me to feel another woe,
To hide the fault I see.
That mercy to others show
That mercy show to me-
May the poor, and the needy, and
4 the sick, and the sorrOwing, and the
/ troubled find the blessed gospel of life
] and joy and peace in the Ihlrd ems
/ tan church. The multitudes followed
/ Jesus because he cared for them and
4 was their best friend. Do the poor
/ and needy the sick and sorrowing OF
| our city feel that the Church of Christ
/ is their best friend2 Do they turn TO
4 the church as the God-appointed agent
/ of heavenly assurance2 IL so, LhaI
/ church is a model church, the kind OF
/ a church Christ would have on earth
/ Rev F. E. Mallory, Third Christian
] church
] CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIAL BE
! NEVOLENCE=T new religion now
so much in evidence has set before II as
! its supreme aim to weave the habit of
/ kindness into the web of character, and
/ the attempt TO carry out this ann mas
/ been followed by some undeniable re-
/ suits. Nevertheless there are serious
/ difficulties in the way of its complete re-
/ alfzation. The effort lacks at once au-
/ thority, motive and encouragement. One
i of the first things, therefore, which
/ Christianity does in enforcing the prac-
/ tice of benevOlence IS to uphold the
4 grand idea of human brotherhood. This
! had been the passionate dream of poets
/ and philosophers in all the ages preced-
/ ing the advent But nothing came of it.
1 The purple drapery vanished, leaving
! only a legacy of despair.
/ When Christ came the fancy hardened
/ into fact And henceforth our charities
/ become something more than mere" cor
/ ruscations of Kindness" playing here
4 and there on the horizon of social life.
4 For Christianity tells US that there is no
/ more fragrant violation of the spirit of
/ human brot herhoOd than the attempt to
| restore that system Of medieval char
/ ity which made mendicancy the most
profitable calling which a miscellaneous
/ people could pursue--ReV JOhn >
/ Glendenning, Second Presbyterian
/ church.
KEEP SOUND WISDOM Each
one of US is in some sense an artist First
1 we sketch a place or position IN which
we work in all the circumstances and
surroundings which we covet What
ever our ambition is, that we put in
3 the picture ana last ourselves III lllG
midst of it. Then we had it in the gal
/ lery of hope and look at it by day, and
dream of it by night Solomon would
have US put wisdom. All the lessons of
experience and observations; all the
/ teachings about how to acquire strength
and force of character; about how to
avoid pitfalls into which the unwary go
to their ruin; about uselessness of life;
to keep all these steadfastly before the
! eyes. Keep sound wisdom" We do
not live in pictures. Theories and ideals
! are valueless in themselves. Grounds
must be plowed. planted, cultivated and
/ harvests gathered. The very best knOwl-
! edge of agriculture, the most perfect OF
/ theories touching soils and crops avail
4 nothing except as they are permitted to
I direct the actual labor. A person might
write a theory upon the philosophy of
4 temptation and how to avoid or minim-
/ lie its force. He might paint series of
/ word pictures describing the first mis-
/ step and the second, and finally the
4 crowning act of bad doing, so that thou
sands reading what he had written
would recognize their own peril and flee
! from it, but unless he exerted himself
/ against the tendency to take the first
! fatal mis-step he would find that his
/ last picture was but a portrait of him
4 self We must keep sound wisdom. -
+ Rev DR.. A. S. Embree, First NJ E.
! church
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