The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-04

we see him grow misery until the habit
of miserliness is ever becoming more
and more confirmed. What is true of
covetousnesS and avarice is also true of
intemperance, Incidence, skepticism and
the whole train of moral evils.-Rev.
DR.. William c. Stinson, Reformed. New
York.
COMMERCIALISM IN RELIGION.
Commercial and commercialism are
two different things. The one is legiti-
mate, the other harmful. When a man
becomes a political leader and says lie
is in it for the profit, we call it COM
mercialisna- When a church sets out
to attract the wealthy, it has taken up
commercialism. A church of rich peO-
pie is no church at all. When man
gives ostentatiously and for some ben>
eft he expects to receive, that is com~
mercialism, but the world gapes and
laudS his seeming generosity.-Dr. Fee
lix Adler, Ethical Culture, New York
SMOOTHING HIS PATHWAY.
Every man should remember that his
life will be the happier for making hab-
its to be his allies, smoothing his path
way instead of enemies that heap up
barriers in the way. Whatever we do
regularly we soon do easily and at last
pleasurably. The full joy of ones work
never comes until the working becomes
habitual, until the action is automatic
and almost unconscious. When work
has reached the stage when by long
practice it is habitual and automatic
ones greatest happiness.-Rev. DR.. D.
n. Hills, Congregationalist, Brooklyn
THE SIN OF HYPOCRISY.
Hypocrisy is the most awful of all
parental sins. No matter what the
father or mother may do as long as
the child can firmly believe that his
parents are living consecrated, godly.
pure and noble lives, that child is
bound to the foot of the cross with
bands of steel. but when the child be-
lieVes that his mother and father are
leading hypocritical lives, pretending
one thing to the world and living an
other kind of life at home. as a rule
there is very little temporal or spiritual
hope for the child.-Rev. DR.. Frank
cago.
MORE THAN A HOBBY.
Religion means more than hobby.
IT Is not a social reform alone, and yet
1t includes all reforms Neither a pro-
hlbltlonist nor preacher comes up to
the great, broad freedom of the wide
truth the Master announces.-Rev. C.
w. Byrd, Methodist, Atlanta Ga
EDUCATION AND RELIGION.
AS human nature is constituted and
as life is lived today the only Wav a
civilized people can rear generation
OF loyal and virtuous youth is to edu-
cate them systematically in the princi-
pies of morality and religion.-Rey. DIR.
David Beaton, Congregationalist, Chi
cago.
SINS HOLD ON MAN.
Men say to me, Il have never COM
mitted any great sim OF course not
Do you suppose the devil is going to
fasten you with a steel chain when a
strand of rope will do as we'll? The
little sins are just as damning. The
Arab of the desert pitches his tent for
the night and prepares for rest Does
he throw his camel on the sand and tie
its four feet to prevent it from running
away? No, indeed. He slips thin
rope about one leg, fastens the other end
to rest confident that the camel will not
get away while he sleeps. So the devil
ties string around your neck and
holds the other end.-~sev. DIR. w. w
Weeks, Baptist, Toronto.
THE USES OF WEALTH.
If money is used to develop a man in
stead of a man being used to make
money, it is a good thing. If money
brings independence, assists the needy,
advances civilization, spreads the gos-
peFs glad evangef then money is prop
erly used, but when money becomes, as
it sometimes does, an eXtinguisher on
the brain, cutting its possessor off from
mental illumination, then it is a curse
When money blunts the moral sense
and disoualifies for keen discernment
between right and wrong. when 1t sti-
fieS religious impulse and dwarfs the
soul, then it need not be wondered at
that Christ said scarcely shall a rich
man enter into heaven.-Rev. DR.. Chas
Baynard Mitchell, Methodist. Cleveland.