The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

man soul begins.-Rev. DR. Edward A.
Blake Methodist. Pittsburg.
VIOLATION OF SABBATH Law.
The man who violates the Sabbath
law robs his nerves and muscles and
brain, cheats himself and gives to dis
ease mortgage on his entire physical
state. The nation which has no Sab
bath is sure to go to pieces.-Rev. w.
A Hunter, Presbyterian, Denver.
DUTY TOWARD CHILDREN
God intends two things for children
that they shall have his truth with the
favorable introduction of parental COM
mendat1on and calculation, and, fur
ther. they shall have fullness of con-
sideration and pportunity.-Rev. NJ
T. Haw, Methodist. st. Louis
SACRED DIGNITY OF MARRIAGE.
No teaching in our day and place is
more needed than that which recalls
and emphasizes the sacred dignity OF
the marriage state and the weighty re-
sponslbilities and tender, yet holy, du-
ties. and rewards it involves.-Rev. NJ.
r. Smith, Catholic, San Francisco.
A WORLD OF YOUR OWN
Once feel Gods hand on your Shout
der and you will forget the world and
make world of your own. What 9TH
ers enjoy will be nothing to you, and
what you will find in your own path
way when you are in the right relation
to him is sufficient for you.-George H.
Hepworth. SCongregationalist, New
York.
oxASIAE0ANEo0 Ut ALL SALlAlNN1o.
The man who sees clearly that he
was born for a commercial life and de-
votes himself to business, the man who
makes the law his life work or medi-
cine or teaching or agriculture or car
pentering, is under as holy an obliga-
ton as am to make his calling a min
istry of sacrifice and service-Rev. DR..
Frank H. Rowley, Baptist. Boston.
DO THE BEST YOU CAN.
It is only drudgery that makes lazy
men, while congenial work makes in
dustrious men. In the old times it
used to be said that we must do certain
things or take the consequences. What
would have you do now is just this:
Go on faithfully doing the best you
can and don't be unhappy because you
cannot do more.-Rev F. A. Hinckley,
Unitarian, Philadelphia.
THE PURCHASE OF NOBILITY.
It has been proved by 5000 years Of
history that the only way to develop
men, to quicken the greatness in them,
to enlarge their minds and release the
pentup perfumes of loneliness, is to
expose them to conflict, to trials, dis
appointments and anguish. These are
the prices paid for nobility. No man
inher1ts nobility; he purchases it with
tears and anguish.-Rev. DR.. George
c. Lorimer, Baptist, New York
THE DIVINE LIGHT
Ii there We're men who had never
been awake during the day and had
never once seen the sun or felt its
warmth and if these men had come to
doubt even the existence of the sun,
their doubt and every trace of their
agnosticism would be instantly remov-
: ed were they to come out but once un-
der the sky in which the sun was shin
ing In like manner all doubt and ag-
Mysticism with reference to God are in
stantly removed by coming into Gods
hght.-Rev. w. S. Fulton, Presbyte-
rian, Pittsburg.
THE NEW TESTAMENT MIRACLES
Regarded as symbols of Jesus love
and sympathy, the New Testam ent
miracles have a unique value but the
moment they are put forward as proofs
of his nature or work the question OF
evidence and testimony arises, and we
are diverted from the spiritual expert
ences of the soul to the problems OF
science, philosophy and criticism. 1t is
also well to remember that Jesus left
no account of himself. his work or his
claims and that what we have in the
New Testament is the reports OF those
who did not always understand him.
Rev. F., L. Phalen. Unitarian. Worces-
ter, Mass