The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-16

love for his people or his fellows. It
was Christs mission to become per-
feet through suffering, and the Chris
tian's perfection comes from Chris
tian suffering, getting thereby the
light of heaven. The selfish and
worldly soul plunges only into dark
ness.@Rev. G. r. Van De Water,
Episcopalian, New York
AsGREAT JOY.
There Is no JOY this side of glory
like the joy of being anointed with the
oil of gladnes Storms do not touch
II. Greed cannot move it. / have had
In my time as many sorrows, difficult
ties and acknowledgements to contend
with as any man among you, yet
neither sorrows, difficulties, discour-
agements nor failures have ever
touched that joy for a moment 1t is
like a great river streaming through
my heart 365 days in the year.=Rev.
DR.. Reuben A. Torrey, Evangelist
Chicago.
TO KNOW GOD.
No man is understood by his enemy
both because he will not bare himself
to one who hates him and because, if
he did, the hater has not the qualifca-
tons for understanding. This is true
of God. One must love him to under
stand him. 1t is both morally and in
tellectually impossible for one who ig-
nores God in his own life to know him.
Theology is no mere matter of sheer
pathy, unity with Godfrey. DR.. w.
c. Biting, Baptist. St. Louis
THE GREAT REVIVAL
All the signs Of the times portend
that we are at the beginning of one of
the nightiest manifestations of the
power of God in saving grace which
the world has ever witnessed; a move
ment which shall exceed Pentecost,
which shall exceed the Nhiteheld reviv-
ais. which shall exceed the Finney re-
vivals, which shall exceed the Moody
REVEALS, which shall exceed all pre-
vious REVEALS. We have been passing
through a period Of tremendous spirit
ual drought. Churches have gone to
sleep and have forgotten that their
chief business is to save men. We
have been passing through a period of
higher criticism. We have wearied and
worried ourselves with every expedient.
We have tried everything except rely
ing wholly upon God. Now we have been
forced back upon God, and the great
revival Is here.-Rev- Edward H. Libby,
Congregationalist, North Englewood,
III.
GOD AT THE SERVICE OF MAN.
Tell me a mans ruling love- said
Swedenborg, and I will tell you what
he is Equally true is this: Give me
the sum total of a mans actions, and
will find out from them his ruling love"
Let US, then, judge God by his acts
Whose are the iron and the stone?
Whose are the cattle on a thousand
hills? For whom do waves sparkle. winds
blow. leaves rustic and for whom does
earth pour forth her fruit2 Is it for the
sake of God that the sun shines. that
the moon lights up the night? Has he
built the stars for his habitation, and do
their light waves carry messages to him
Does graVitatiOn keep his house together
over his head? What, then, is all this Gre
alton for Whose wants does it meet,
whose intellect does 1t stimulate, whose
life does it create. protect and glorify?
There is but one inevitable answer. The
whole galaxy is built. gravitation pulls,
light Shines electricity thrills and the
atoms cohere to form the worlds simply
ana solely for the benefit of Gods chill
dren. The whole cosmos is one mighty
toAen OF his love.-Rev. Samuel r. Cal
throp, Unitarian, Syracuse, n. Y