The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-05

nothing to do with the week day. They
act as il they had right to leave their
p1ety at home on Monday morning.
as they would put on or off their Sun
day clothes.-Rev. DIR. Frank De Witt
Talmage, Presbyterian, Chicago.
THE BIBLE AN HONEST BOOK
The Bible is an honest old book. 1t is
like nature-it VIII neither lie nor fiat
ter. 1t holds the mirror up to the re-
ality. Go where you will you cannot
find a book, writer, in any other
realm of literature so rair, brave, hon
est and straightforward as the Bible
and the Bible writers.=Rev. Frank NJ
Bristol, Methodist, Washington
HELPING ONESELF AND OTHERS
Let US be self helpful, remembering
always that there is a larger. deeper
self in every one of us, and at the same
time let US have a watchful eve for
others needs. Infinite is the abundance
of goOt. Things which God and man to-
gether lave treasured up for our ad-
vantage.-Rev. DR.. John White Chad
wick Unitarian, Brooklyn.
A CONDITION OF IMMORTALITY
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ will
give immortal, incorruptib1e lives and
bodies and immortality is conditional i'm
the sense that 1t is dependent only upon
faith in him. Those who attain irnmor-
tality will go through no long evolution
airy period of suffering. The translation
will be in twinkling. as from grief 10
joy--Rev. 1. NJ Haldeman. Baptist, New
York.
THE CHURCH AND RECREATION.
1t would be wrong to infer that the
church is opposed to every kind of di-
version. We need recreation and amuse-
ment as much as we need food and
bring summer into our lives and enable
us to enter into our work cheerfully.
Amusement tends to refreshen our
minds, sweeten our tenpers and render
our hearts more genial The church is
not to amuse the world. but to save the
world.-Rev. DR.. LoTimer, Baptist, New
York.
THE SOUL OF A NATION"
The histories of all nations teach us
that "a nation is great and strong just
as il possesses and practices spiritual
ideals and moral principles" And by
nation we mean the ark. of human gov
eminent that holds for a people rev.
erence for God and law. freedom of
thought and worship. sauctify of mar
riage and the home and. above all, rev.
erence for the individual soul of man,
which is the source of art enterprise
and law.-Rev. David Beaton, Congre-
gationalist. Chicago.
CHRIST GIVES REST.
Christ gives to US rest. BY his words,
by his life, by his death. through his
spirit, he leads US, il we WILL under the
yoke that he himself wore-obedience.
Into the soul of man thus submit
ting TO THIS yoke lneT6 STEALS DleSS6uiy
the sense of forgiveness, of trust, of
contentment, of harmony. of peace
with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ" that is like the rest of those
saved ones who stand before his throne.
Rev. DR.. Arson F. Atterbury, Presby-
terrain, New York
RELIGION NOT IRKSOME.
He is the greatest enemy of religion
who would make it irksome and con-
trary to common sense. Most people
talk religion in an unnatural tone.
The moment they change the subject
and talk about anything else their faces
light up like sunrise and at once give
the impression that they have come out
of the irksomeneSS of religion into that
which is natural. This joyless view OIL
religion, so inconsistent with the teach
ings of the New Testament. keeps many
conscientious people out of the church.
Rev. DIR. Madison c. Peters, Baptist,
Baltimore.
THE BEARING OF CROSSES.
How few of us know the weight of the
burdens borne by human hearts. Bus
mess crosses, domestic crosses, social
croSses-they are as numerous as were
the crosses on the hills of Judaea when
the Emperor Titus conquered Jerusa-
lem, their weight as heavy as life's ter
rife agony and woe. But greater than
any burden borne by the individual life
is the fact that humanity can bear II
as the supreme manhood of Jesus bore
triumphantly his, the greatest burden of
all the ages. Out of the blue sky comes
the divine cry, In me is thine help"
In the beauty of the Galilean prince, in
the radiance of the divine assurance or
help, no man ought to bear his crosses
crouchingiy bowed down under them,
but in splendid triumph as did the Son
of Mary, who was the Son of God
Rev. Dr. Rasmus, Methodist, Chicago