The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04

strength-=Rev. c. F. Miller, Episco-
palian, Brooklyn.
LIES DUTIES.
Life must be unified by having but
one principle and then seeking to at
tain to the one goal by using two in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. duties and
secular interests.=Rev. c. D. Case, Bap-
LIKE sIAMEsE TWINS.
When men attempt to divorce bust
ness life from religious life it is
criminal attempt They cannot be d.
vorced; they are really. as far as the
world is concerned, Siamese twins
Rev R. S. Pardington. Methodist,
LIKE AND LOVE
Like is deeper word than love.
Love has something of the viii behind
It. Like lies beneath volition and dis
closes the real nature of oneself. Some
men love their wives. but they don't
Ike them.-Rev. DR.. Frank Crane. Con-
gregat ionalist, Worcester, Mass
ESSENTIALS OF ETERNAL LIFE.
If you have charity. love and be-
nevolence toward your fellow man you
possess all that is essential to eternal
lne.-Cardinal Gibbons. Roman Cath
Ole, Baltimore.
SALVATION.
Salvation is from sin and SHINING
to righteousness of living, and it can
only come through the constant de-
velopment of character.-Rev. E
Dean Fleetwood. Universalist. At
lanta, Ga.
A WORK FOR EVERY MAN.
If you cannot preach, then pray If
you cannot go, then give so others may
go If you cannot sing, then sympa-
thize. But in any event do not for
get that Christ assigns by natural en-
dowments to each man his work.
Rev. M. E. Harlan, Disciple, Brook
Ign.
THE IMMORTAL LIFE.
Immortality IS not a reward. but a
part of this life. How prepared we
shall be for our work there will de-
pend upon how. well we do our work
here, for OF such is conservation. Only
believe in the loving God and through
that alone we shall come to understand
that we are souls born into eternity
and that we are now living the inn
mortal life.-Rev Frederick Alban
Well, Unitarian. Chicago.
JOY AND GLADNESS.
Joy Is our secret in the easy per
Torrance Of the ordinary and extra
ordinary duties of life. Gladness is
the life of any pursuit. We do well
what we enjoy doing, and our tasks
become drudgery in proportion to the
absence Of heart In them Anything
can be accomplished when the heart
is light and free, but otherwise the
easiest task. becomes the most irksome.
Rev Josephus Stephen, Methodist.
St. Louis.
Christ is the center Of great world
and life to which mankind generally
are now eccentric and not concentric
and the call of the apostle is that our
lives are to be concentric with the life
of Christ. Look up, not down: look
out, not in; look forward, not back
ward, and lend hand" is fine motto
and presents the so-called graces. faith
love and hope, in service to those in
need and as manifesting the life of
Jesus Christ in his relationship to the
world through his own people.-Rev.
c. F. Winbigler. Baptist, Washington
WANTS OF THE SOUL.
The same God who meets the ma
terial wants of men with a world of
wondrous beauty and who supplies the
men with field of truth too vast ever
to be exhausted has provided the soul
with that which. when appropriated
by faith, perfectly satisfies. No man
can walk entirely by sight. The things
discovered by the senses can satisfy the
body and furnish much to employ and
develop the mind, but man is also a
spiritual being, and the wants of the
soul are the most vital of all.-Rev.
DR.. W. J. Williamson, Baptist, ST.
Louis
COMMUNION WITH GOD.
Mind and heart need regular stated
communion with God. Between the
poles of our existence, which
stretches from lowest earth to highest
heaven, is the theater of varying voca-
lions with varying calls, duties and OBJ
legations. We can remain earthly We
can also go on to the heavenly Mere
earthly pleasure diminishes our en-
tity- Heavenly pursuits prayer.
communion and worship-replen 1t.
It is impossible to live the Christian
life if we put pleasure before duty,
personal qualification before Cod
Rev. George Lloyd, Episcopalian, st.
Louis.
LIES TRIUMPH AND ITS TRAG-
EDY.
This world Of men is still world Of
pilgrims. We journey from time to
eternity; We talk together; we live to-
gether; We work together. we wor-
ship together; we even pray and sing
and read together around the holy
bivouacs of street and shop and church
and home We do all and then lie
down and sleep in death. and yet we
have not known each other. Man still
waves his palm of gladness; man. still
carries his willow of grief, and all the
while his dearest friend knows not
the inner secret of his soul. This is
life's triumph and this its tragedy
Rev. John Archibald Morrison, Pres
byterian. Chicago.
DRAWING ON HEAVEN.
Prayer is going to the bank of
heaven. When you go in your name
you go on the ground Of some claims
that you fancy .hat you haze ~ God.
here Is 10 one haze tl1- has 1i.y
q aim on Cod. Every las. one Of rs
is a poor. niserdpia. hell dies CRYING
sinner. and when we go imagining we
have some claim on God The check is
not honored. The check is passed
back. Nobody but Jesus has given rs
the right to put his name on our
checks, and Jesus Christ has unlimited
claims on the bank of heaven. The
name of Jesus Christ is good for any
amount with God. The name Of Jesus
Christ is precious with the Father. and
the check is honored lot on the
ground of our claim. but on Chrfst's
claim; not in our name. hut in Christ's
name Now friends. believe We have
right here the secret of 4 great deal of
unanswered prayer. W 20 to God in