The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-07

which youth can never fully solve. It's
solution more readily comes to US in
racked and torn by life's deep agita.-
lions and when the stress and storm
of things are safely passed. The great
est source of happiness is memory, the
remembrance of glad days past and
gone, of a life well lived and deeds well
done-Rev. Robert Hopkin, Congrega-
tionalist, Cleveland. o.
BEAUTIFUL CHURCH SERVICE.
The simplest service, in which the
people really take part and lift up their
voices to God with earnestness and de-
votion, is a beautiful service. A serv-
ice, no matter how well rendered, to
which the people merely listen as they
listen to a concert strikes a. note that
is essentially false and shallow. That
service alone is truly poetic and beauti-
full which causes the heart to forget
its sorrow and inspires it with a, desire
for better things-Rev. DR.. ElWood
Worcester, Episcopal, Boston.
HOW CHRISTIANITY CONQUERS.
The appeal of truth to the mind of
man is universally potent precisely as
the appeal Of love to the heart; hence
Christianity goes boldly out to claim
the world. She claims it as a teacher
and lover claims his own Christianity,
wooes the world with her love and
truth and heroisTn. By this sign, by
the sign of her love, by the sign of her
truth, she conQuers.-Rev. DR.. w. J.
Shannon, Congregationalist, st. Louis.
EXTENDING GODS KINGDOM.
The man who succeeds in extending
Gods kingdom is the man who makes
himself of no reputation. The man who
succeeds in his own lifetime in seeing the
Kingdom grow Up IN STABILITY ana beauty
who goes. a little farther outside the
shadow of self-tntereSt and self thought
into the circle where nothing but COM
plete surrender to Christ is possible
All, let the church ponder this word. for
it is at once the reproach and the inspira-
ton of the church. and it may be but
a very little farther that you and 1 need
to go to turn defeat into victory Just
and the conquest OF the cross.@Rev. Dr.
William j. Dawson, Congregationahst,
London
SOUL STARVATION.
Many are caring for bodily needs and
appetites in these days, running after ev-
cry new thing and neglecting spiritual
and eternal verities. You may call me a
fact that scores of people are dying of
ciaI political and Intellectual caring
nothing for sound doctrine or holy living,
saying: III run my chances of securing
salvation At last, when every earthly
and seek his word, but will not find It,
1t will then be eternally too late. MOT
shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but
he that doeth the. viii of my Father
days have a form of goodness. but know
nothing of its power. Such perish through
soul SIarVal1On--tleV. Dr. George II. AQ-
ans, Baptist, Brooklyn.
PRESENCE OF GOD.
What constitutes the happiness of heav-
en- Is the presence of God in that kingdom
Of his glory We shall possess God; we
shall be united to him; we shall see him !;
we shall rejoice in his presence. Such is
heaven. If by cultivatinz this holy
exercise also live in his presence, is not
our conversation also in heaven? Our
life here below is intended by our good
and merciful Creator to resemble our life
in that happy eternity for which he has
destined us. If we in this life always re-
member the presence of God our hearts
will always seek happiness only where it
can be found Our aspirations viii always
in heaven, our eternal home.-Rev. Faith
er Jackson, Roman Catholic, Atlanta, Ga.
UNITARIANISM AND CHARITY.
Under the general head of charity in
the organization of churches is included
all the organization of the church for
humanity if may take the phrase of a
disting uished Methodist clergyman. On
this side the Unitarian church ought to
nothing but bringing in the Kingdom of
God, and if it is not at work in that it
had better not be at all From the very
beginning, therefore,its most active mem
bers have been more interested in what
people call humanitarian work-by which
is meant the general work of philanthro-
py-than they have been in enterprise in
volving ritual or ecclesiastical organiza-
ton or improvements in the methods of
worship.-Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale
Unitarian, Boston.