The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-22

Der them brings comfort?-Rev. NJ.
Krauskopf, Hebrew, New York.
OBLIGATION.
The notion sometimes prevails that
the higher ones position the further
he is removed from the burden of
work. Not so if the man recognizes mis-
obligation to God and to his fellows
Rev. DR.. John F. Carson, Presby terrain,
Brooklyn.
GODS PLACE
We cannot serve two masters. Either
we love God with all our soul and
heart and mind or we give our whole
heart and soul and mind to serve crea-
ture and God has but the second place.
Rev. Joseph L. Kirlin, Roman Catho-
lie, Frankfort, Pa.
OUT OF THE DUST.
If I could lift the starry curtain of
the morning of the future, out of the
tongueless silence of the tdreamIeSS
dust would come lessons of duty, as
night brings out stars, as sorrows show
US truth--Rev. DR. j. Henry Smythe'
Methodist, Philadelphia.
HAVE A MOTIVE IN LIFE.
man without motives is a cipher.
Motives are the significant figures that
give magnitude and direction to human
life. Life is something more than a
summer afternoon, a merry go round OF
pleasure.-Rev. DIR. Daniel Dorchester,
jr., Methodist. st. Louis.
GODS BOOK.
From heaven must have come this
book which reveals Gods existence,
discloses Gods plans, records Gods
deeds and presents the brightest expo
sition and Sublimest proof of his match
less wisdom and infinite love.-Rev. Dr.
Kerr Boyce Topper, Baptist, Philadel-
phia~
a CHRISTLESS CHURCH.
A Christless church is a blind, dead
ruin of a church. 1t may have beauti-
full architecture, intellectual sermons,
splendid music, well dressed crowd.
material wealth, but Christless
church is a poor, blind. useless thing
to God and humanity c. ]. Hall,
Peoples Tabernacle, Denver.
EQUAL GUILT.
The citizen who countenanceS the
violation of law, the unfaithfulness of
sworn officers or the perpetuation of
evil in society becomes guilty himself
do, in it's effect on individuals and on
society, as much as in what we do
Rev. Josephus Stephan, Methodist
South, st. Louis.
WHAT HEAVEN IS.
We sign of going to heaven when
we die" as if it were foreign realm
some distant port to which we sail
when the journey of this life is over.
simply the unfolding and enlargement
of the life which we now have in
Christ Rev. DR.. J. B. Hawthorne,
Baptist, Richmond Va.
SEEK THE MEANING OF LIFE.
The superficial externalities of hui
man existence hang before the gaze of
the thOughtleSS and the unthinking,
but the interpretations of life move
m ents must be wrought out by those
to whom life is too awful not to have
a meaning and man too great not to
have destiny.-Rev. DR.. Moore Meth
odiSt, San Antonio, Tex.
LEARN THE LAW OF LIFE.
Life, all life, is of God, and where it
finds it's highest expression in the ma
ture of men it has an aim and a law.
To find this law and to reach this aim
and temper our thoughts and actions IN
accordance with it is the task of men
endowed with the capacity to think and
to do--Rev. H. NJ. G. Huff, Score tary
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Penn
Sylvania.
ANARCHY'S DEADLY FEATURE.
The most deadly feature of this thing
called anarchy is its fundamental prin-
ciple that there is no supreme God who
governs in the nations of the earth.
Therefore in the anarchists creed there
Is no such thing as a supreme govern
ment in the universe, and, having set
aside the fundamental principle of no
government in the universe by divine
intelligence, they are well called anarch-
lists, which implies an antipathy to rul-
ers, government, authority well being
and harmony among men--Rev S D.
Hutsinpiller, Methodist, San Francisco.