The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-03

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/ Seymour, Episcopalian, Peoria, III.
PROOF.
Men talk much of proof, but It is a
cheap thing. You can only prove
hard, dead things, like mathematics.
The warm, live things can only have
| degrees of probability.-Rev Frank
Crane, Congregatienalist, Worcester,
DOING GOOD.
/ There is a large place in the world
for the man who goes about doing
good. The man who knows the good
and does it not commits a sin against
society, and imperils his own HE
rev. W. H Pound, Congrega nationalist
! Chicago.
HINDRANCEs TO SUCCESS.
The things that block the way to
success in this world are inertness,
lrresOlution, coWardice.- the failure to
meet life's issues like a man And it is
the same lack of manly and Womanly
qualities that produces failure in the
Christian lfe.-Rev. P. 8. Henson,
Baptist, Boston.
SOURCE OF PERFECT FREEDOM.
The man who serves self thinks he
has liberty of action and is free to do
as he pleases. He is IN reality in the
thraI of bondage which is ever be-
coming more calling, while it Is only
IN the service Of God that perfect free
dom is found.-Rev. John D. La
Mothe. Episcopalian, Washington.
RELIGION THAT IS PURE.
Pure religion begins with a change
of heart, wrought by the Holy Spirit,
and now dedication of the life TO
Christ. 1t begins within and moves
outwardly, and it grows only as
by day It is fed from the secret sources
Of heavenly grace.-Rev. ". s. p.
Bryan, Presbyterian, Chicago.
CHRIST'S SPELL.
We are under the spell Of Jesus
Christ. however materialistic our age.
do not say that all of our civiliza-
ton is permeated with an appreciation
OF his chara cter, but I DO mean to say
that you cannot date Il letter without
recognizing his birth: you cannot write
1906 without admitting that something
extraordinary happened about 1000
Years ago. YOU. cannot get AWAY from
Jesus CsEFist.--ReyI E. J.. Powell. Dis
ciple, Louisville.
GODS GREAT PLAN.
Gcd has q great plan for the great
! brotherhood Of men, He intends to
make this world more beautiful, to
spread universal intelligence and eff
feet q complete moral reformation. His
/ plan includes the cooperating help Of
/ his children. He wants them to help
| him make this physical world better
| fitted to their need. He furnishes the
raw material. and men are to trans
form it into articles OF use and beauty
! Rev Dr.. Charles Bayard Mitchell,
Methodist, Cleveland. o.
THE LIMIT NOT REACHED.
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for the future let us remember at the
outset that we have not reached the
age limit yet. The man, the nation,
the church., which supposes that there
is nothing better to be attained far
| Their on becomes only a. dereltct float
! ing upon the great ocean of life and a
/ hindrance and a menace to all real
! life. God spare us from the man who
supposes he or his church or his party
! possesses all wisdom and that there is
l hing hotter ha attained little
! farther on.-Rev. c. c. Pierce, Baptist,
( Los Angeles, cal.
LICENSE AND ENJOYMENT.
Some people don't discriminate be-
| tween license and enjoyment The diff
! ference between license and enjoyment
is this-it is in the aftermath. When
you have license with a thing the after
math is sorrow; when you have enjoy
ment with q thing the aftermath is
song. That is the difference. There IS
no sorrow after enjoying Gods earth.
| There is always sorrow after using Ii
| cense with Gods earth. Enjoying q
! thing gives one the sense of WEAKNESS,
and WEAKNESS is Wilderness. for it in
viteth slumber. License with thing
| giVeth Wakefulness and the red eye
ball and the poisoned heart. So. then,
/ this IS Gods world He made 1t. And
| then It is our world, for he made it for
US and gave it to US. And then it is
ours to entoy-ReV. William A
! Quayle, Methodist, Chicago.
VALUE OF A GROWING LIFE
It is the growing life that gets the
most treasure out Of the days. The
mind is the eye of the soul. but the eye
must be trained and educated. The
astronomer strengthens the eye by his
telescope and brings distant stars near.
Education is a kind Of glass that
| brings unseen and unknown truths In
to sight. Education in geology brings
the history of stars near. When the
youth is made wise toward plant life
all the trees and tropie growths of dis
tant continents pass before his vision.
To be educated in history Is to have a
/ glass so powerful that we behold afar
off Xenophon's ten thousand marching
up and down the hills of Asia Minor,
We see Virgil's hero tossing on the sea
we see Odysseus battling against the
suftors in his palace. while men do not
dream that the beggar is the long lost
king wearing a disguise. What the
microscope can do for the eye educa-
/ ton can do for the intellect Sleep Is
/ the brother of death. hut ignorance is
the half brother. College men are the
scouts going on in advance Of the ar
my, but the scout is only a few hours
IN advance Of The egiment.-Rev- Dr.
Newell Dwight Hills, regational-
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