The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-07

is one thing that every soul on earth
ought 10 make the supreme passion Of his
life 50 that he can say This one thing
merchant, an artist, a musician. jour
nalist- a houSekeeper, but there IS one
thing that rules all my ambition and d.
reefs all my energy, and that one
thing IS so 70 live as to do all things to
the glory Of God That will be the one
thing shall do That viii be the one
great purpose of my life. so that no
matter whether I practice medicine or
law or carry on a store or teach a school
/ shah be able TO say, This one thing
DON'T BE FRIVOLOUS
VIII the members of this class register
a vow as unit against frivolity2 VIII
you scorn TO be of those young men and
women IN America who are content 70
spend q. large part OF every day in dress
ing up in their best clothes and having a
good T1mes VIII you grow TO have deep
ing nothing with a large part OF your
ar5 ea4 5vs5fraS+if,iz- f7,7 <fsr 1-1,5 Iorir
need2 VIII you get indignant as with
/ Gods wrath at the thought Of being no
woman in your set or the fastest young
| man in your crowd2 VIII you shrink with
I leaves either a man or woman seldshly
! spending leisure in foolish play while the
I for their souls? VIII you grow to have
I divine contempt for that kind of life
Wnlen sees as the supreme end OF az e.
/ Tort nothing better than eating and drink
I ing and dressing and buying and selling
! and earning money and spending II on your
your life. This one thing l do you viii
/ have TO consider life serious thing
You can not spend IL in play. Il must be
work. But II viii be glorious work There
+ VIII be no frivolity. bat there viii be plen-
| ~ OF joy No shallow pleasure, but deep
l delight: no empty fiattery from society
/ sycophants. but sound praise from God
/ No cheap display OF energy over pleas
/ ures that are not worth having but q
bOuadlesss enthusiasm in doing what the
1 world needs most to have done in the next
! ten years If all the young people Of the
world who have leisure TO spend for God
/ that they are spending on themselves
the time that he owns. II would go a long
[ ways towards redeeming the world from
the clutch OF the devil If society stopped
/ PLAYING Tor ten years ana Went 10 Work;
nobody would suff-r and mulUtudes would
be relieved from suffering What God
/ needs IN this world Is not a lot OF grown
! up people who know how to play with
one another. but lot OF people who want
Day one of the great sins that men and
women vii he obliged 10 face viii be
the sin Of PLAYING too much, using up
Gods time in doing nothing. We shall
ana Of Cod now in this life is $50 work
today in my vineyard
If your text for life is This one thing
I do you can once and for all free your
self from the slavery Of What will peo-
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY?
Suppose you are honestly and inteIli-
gently possessed with the purpose to de-
vote your life to doing the win of God.
! then you will not be Influenced by what
/ other people say. There are a great many
moral towards in the world who regulate
their conduct not by any fixed eternal
/ principle, but by the question What viii
people saw But what difference will il
make what people say If what you are
going to do IS right and il YOU know be
yOnd question that God wants you TO dc
it, It would be very refreshing II We
could meet oftener the kind OF young UeT
and women we call heroic who know Wha1
Is the rght and are gong 10 90 II re
gardlesS of what the whole world MAY
think or say. lie US hope this class vii
help the world out some at this partlc
ular place II IS very easy for Us 10 le
other people do our thinking for US
is even easier still to acquire a habit O.
such Habby moral consistency that be
fore doing anything We stop and say
W hat viii people say What VIII IN
/ papers print about this If we dare do s.
and SOP What difference does It max
If all the people on earth criticise you
make If every paper in creation has II
cheap and easy fling. II what you ar
doing is what God wants you to do 70
his glory The GOD VINO made Us IN hi
image in the beginning. have mercy o
US II after all these years of Christ /
= the world, If after the story of the atone
II nent we shrink like towards behind tn
Y fear Of others comments on our conduci
I. II God be for Us. who can be against US
= The praise Of the world IS sweet, but Ii
t, praise Of God is sweeter- The criticisr
: hard 70 bear. but the peace OF God IS "a
e beyond all comparison for its upilfJIn
5 and sustaining power With Paul VII
L feared nothing except sin. We say '-Thi
< one thing do Then like him and Othe
e brave souls. we 90 right TO do God
e VIII and let the world say what II will
! Tor right is right since God is God;
e And right the day shall win;
> To doubt would be disl0yalty,
! To falter would be sin