The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-24

Christianity stands for co-operati tive
brotherhood with the elder brother
for companfonship with the great com
panion.-Rev. DR.. J. P. Brushingham
Methodist, Chicago.
THE POWER OF VISION.
We have no fear of perishing, be-
cause we have visions which lead US
onward and upward to that building
of God, a house not made with hands
eternal in the heavens. Rev. Nathan
A. Seagle, Episcopalian, New York.
LIFE SACRIFICED TO MONEY.
Life is so organized today that the
dollar or the want of it stands between
the soul and its life. On every hand
the highest ideals of life are being sac
rificed on the altar of money.-Rev.
DIR. Willard B. Thorp, Congregation
alist, Chicago.
DOING THINGS.
Don't stop to ask what you can do
Go ahead and do something. Some OF
us are so impractical that we like to
think about things, but do not seem
to have the power to map out a
course of action.-Rev. w. w. Nevins,
Baptist, Washington.
JEWISH VIEW OF DEATH.
We Jews fear no torments of the
doomed. The terrors of death do not
alright US. Our duty is to live and
not in fear of death die a thousand
deaths. Through life we learn how to
live.-Rev. Moses ]. Cries, Hebrew,
Cleveland, 0.
VALUE OF PRAYER.
Prayer is the noblest and most sub
lime act In which man can be engaged,
because it exercises the highest facul-
ties OF the soul the intellect and the
VIII; 1t brings us into communication
with the greatest of beings, God him
self. 1t is the channel of heaven s
choicest blessings James
Gibbons, Roman Catholic, Baltimore
EFFECT OF CONFESSION.
One of the pleasantest surprises in
store for US when we enter heaven will
be to discover that our acts and words
in life, which we counted of little sig
nificance, but wherein we confessed
Christ. before men, have been the
means, in the providence of God, of
Charles Carroll Alburtson, Presbyterian,
Rochester, N. Y.
VALUE OF THE BIBLE.
The reason that the Hebrews have
held together as a nation and retained
their national characteristics without
a nome country for SO many hundreds
of years is their adherence to the Bible.
The great bond among the Hebrew race
is their common history, which is the
Old Testament. The greatest unity
among people is found where the Bible
is constantly read and is a necessary
factor in daily life.-Rev ]. F. Loba,
ongregationalist, Evanston, III.
THE LEADING OF THE LORD.
Today God leads us, not by dreams
not by angels, but sometimes by the
hard force of circumstances. He leads
us again by the sense of duty or it
may be by impulse, and shows only one
opening, for all the others are fast
closed, but he leads US today just as
truly as he led Philip to GAIA by the
desert way. There is a mystery and
there is blessing in the desert way
through which God leads his choicest
saints. 1t sometimes takes the desert
way to bring us out of ourselves and
lift us up to God.-Rev. DR.. George H
Smith, Presbyterian, St. Catharines,
Ont.
NEARNESS OF GOD.
We may think of God in the infini-
-esimal world beneath us, in the
smallest grass blade at our feet, in
he brain Of Shakespeare, the heart
IF Jesus. in the light of the stars over
Dur heads. Wherever there is life or
power or beauty or JOY wherever
here is suffering or struggle, defeat or
there is God. The old thought
If God has absolutely passed away,
out God himself, by the great changes
II thought and theory which are pass
ng over the world, is only brought
nearer to us. He is not
ides. He is nearer than the breath
We breathe or the beating of our
DIR. Minot ]. Savage,
New York.