The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23

faults, when we are dumb and say moth
ing absolutely nothing.-Rev. DR.. Frank
Dewitt Ialmage. Presbyterian. Chicago.
SAVING THE RACE.
God is working out d plan in the
world, and all his movements are di-
rected to a common destiny. This des-
tiny is the saving Of the race. We look
back through the ages and see the
steady march of events toward the re-
alization Of this end. We move on to-
gether toward the contamination of the
divine purpose.-Rev. ". F. Wykoh,
DEMAND FOR GERTRUDE.
We are not satisfied either with a pos
sioility or a probability. What man
wants in these high matters of his
souls we'll being is gertrude. He wants
vision; he wants not perhaps or even
great probability. but a knowledge,
distinguished by two properties. the
property of clarity and the property OF
certitude--Rev. DR.. Joseph A. 1lilburn,
Congrega tionalist, Chicago.
THE GREATEST THING IN THE
WORLD.
After all, faith real, honest. down
right, earnest faith, is the greatest
thing in the world. It is the rock upon
which all our worldly accomplishment
rests We must have faith to believe
that, however limited our vision, there
is good behind all seeming evil; faith in
the fact of an omnipotent and loving
God who viii finally bring about a tri-
Rev. Charles F. Patterson, New York.
CLEANSING POWER OF CHRIST.
God has provided means to purify ev-
cry heart. His remedy Is sufficient for
every case. The human viii must sub
NIT absolutely to the cleansing power Of
the blood of Jesus Christ It is a case
of God wills, man wills not-God cannot
if man will not All may have pure
hearts If we viii seek the Lord and give
ourselves entirely to his Will.-Rev. Dr.
Monk MTaf17n1fGfz Atlanta Ga.
THE TEST OF LOVE FOR GOD.
Love always manifests itself IN one
ness of win and obedience Blissfulness
of feeling, morbid emotion and extrava-
CANT language may be the effervescence
Of a fervid love. but they give no assur-
ance of its existence for they can How
/ just as violently from weak sentimec-
talism. This is the love of God that our
wills be one with his, that we keep his
1 commandments. - Rev. DR.. Morgan
Wood, Presbyterian, Cleveland, q.
FUN IS NOT HAPPINESS.
There is fun a-plenty IN the world
/ but fun is not happiness The man VINO
/ uuarrels with his wife and children and
( deceives his family has no real peace
4 The man who lies and who has become
a drunkard does not even respect him.
self. The man who wears a mask over
1 his face and lives q double life Is IN
/ sincere in his dealings with men, knows
nothing about real peace, JOY and hap
piness.-Rev. r. S. Holmes. Presby-
terrain, PntSburg.
NOT DUPLICATES OF OTHERS.
We were not meant to be duplicates of
anything God is trying to make each
one of US as distinct and purely ourself
as though he was not making another
personality. Yet how few there are who
are keeping themselves untainted by
cross fertilization, the delicate flavor OF
the soul unmixed with other souls You
will never know yourself until you see
yourself in the clear mirror of his face
/ He only can purge out Of US those talse
! forces that make US unnatural-fSeV-
DIR. West, Congregat ionalist, Winona-
MINI.
THE USES OF TEMPTATIONS.
Temptations are the penalty of man.
hood; they are the sign of progress
upward. Only a moral nature can be
/ tempted. Temptations are the appeals
of the lower nature, the impulses to be
untrue to ones highest vision and to
carry into a higher stage of life the
characteristics of a lower. In the ma
ture Of the case, therefore, they do mol
separate US from God. Only yielding
does that There Is no experience of hui
man life that lies outside the sphere Of
his purposes of grace God never meant
our lives to be artifieialIy screened from
danger The safe life is not the shelter
ed life. but the victorious life. Infested
virtue is only q possible virtue. The
process of proving is for the purpose OF
approving. Testing manhood, tempta-
lions reveal it and prove its worth
Rev. Milton S. LittIefeld, Presbyterian
New York.