The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-03
He PERFECT DAY

Iii Z ~ RE Eel DA Y
The most splendid hour of love and
joy you have ever known is a streak
of dawn foretelling the perfect day in
whose glory you shall some time walk.
Rev Dr.. Moore San5orn, Unitarian,
Atlanta, Ga.
SEEKING FOR TRUTH.
A man who is in earnest pays little
attention to exteriors. The man who
seeks for truth with the idea Of profit
ing by it is going to find time 10 hunt
for it-Rev. G. d. Case, Evangelist
Montc1air. n. J.
WHEN BLESSINGS COME.
The divine blessing comes only when
there has been a believing prepare ton.
It often happens that God cannot bless
US richly because we are not prepared
for large blessings E. e. Chivers,
Baptist, St. Louis.
CLUB WOMEN.
Women have been criticised for
joining literary clubs. vet the club. in
stead of inJuring the home. has been
the means of saving it, by elevating its
intellectual position.-Rev. NJ. NJ.
Mangasarian. Independent, Chicago.
a PERFECT WORLD
A world without suffering ard sacri-
fee would soon become q world with
out herOism. And a world perfectly
and always happy would be a world
perfectly and always dcad.-Rev. J. E.
White, Baptist, Atlanta. Ga.
MEN OF MONEY.
Tell me a mans use of money and
his method of acquiring money and
I'll tell you what kind Of a man he is.
Gold is tried with the eouchstone, but
men are tried with gold.-Re1. w. D.
Bradfeld, Methodist, st. Lous.
GODS PRESENCE.
No man can doubt Gods presence in
the world who sees how sin is shamed
into silence and sinks toward its grave
when shown. by the searchlignt Of an
awakened conscience.-Rev.D DR.. Moore
Sanborn, Unitarian, Atlanta, Ga.
A UNIVERSAL GOD.
God is the God of the humble, the
obscure, the commonplace. While he
is concerned with ali the intellectual
problems of Africa, China and the
Philippines. ne is wholly interested
in you and me.-Rev. DR.. Landrum,
Baptist Atlanta, Ga.
TAINTED MONEY
Protests against tainted money are
in place when it tries to control the
institutions that are its benefciaries.
If a rich endower insists that his opin-
ions be taught in the schools he aids
then his money is tainted and cannot
be taken without injury to the recip-
ient.-Dr. Emil G. Htrsch. Rabbi, Chi
cage.
THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING.
Men have been converted who did
not so much as know there was a
Bible. The Holy Spirit worketh
I would no more restrict him to the
word than I would restrict the love OF
the Father to the church or the re-
vealing power of the Son to the in
tellect.=Rev. Charles L. Chalfant
Presbyterian. st. Louis.
THE MINDS GREAT DEVELOPER
Education is not simply acquiring
knowledge. It is a great deal more
Il is a great developer of the mind II
trains and develops this great organ
There may be no practical use o. Latin
and Greek to many who study them
but they are of great use, and these
studies, so easily forgotten, have done
great work when the goal is reached
Rev. G. s. Murphy, Lutheran
Mount Vernon, o.
THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS.
The great secret of happiness is the
home. Every man should have one
Every man should have a wife. AnC
husband and wife and a house and !
garden don't complete a home. 4 huS.
band and wife don't constitute Z fam
lily. Children make a family and MAKE
happiness. You may have a beautiful
home and beautiful surroundings, bu
children are necessary to complete tht
picture.=Rev. John B. Toomay, Con
gregationalist st. Louis.
CULTIVATE THE SPIRIT.
The spirit must be cultivated. s'TlIt
soul of all Improvement is the iii.
Drovement of the SOUL said one whC
ALWAYS is worth listening to- Aim a
/ the beautiful in character. Add virtue
| to virtue. What satisfaction tht
astronomer experiences when he dis
covers a new star, or the botaEist
new plant, or the artist new comb
nation of shade in color! Courage ant
strength also must be developed. Gu
times demand men of power. Tn
duck. with its soft beak and web feet
/ is all right for the barn yard, but j
| takes the eagle, with beak ana claw
and muscles like steel, to breast tn
storm and traverse the infinite field
/ of space.-Rev. Dr. John TnOm pSon
1 Methodist, Chicago.
DIVINE LOVE.
What we need most of all is net TIN
building up of our churches, nor TIN
/ passage and enforcement Of stIicte
laws about public morals. nor the IN
/ PRODUCTION of some new social ant
I economic system. What We need mos
| of all IS the increase of the divine low
i in the hearts of men, The final ties
! of all our creeds and churches
whether they are able to produce thi
supreme thing. In its presence doubt
and denials melt away as the snow
bank melts under the warm sunshin
! of spring, as the darkness is dissolved
/ by the light. There is no other in
/ fuence under heaven by which poor
/ discouraged. hardened, sinful men an
women can be saved and renewed thai
by the outreaching to them of tn
divine love through a human hand an
a human voice Without it all on
doctrines and our sermons and on
services and our sacraments are bu
sounding brass and tinkling cymbal
Rev willard B. Thorp, Congrcga
tionalist. Chicago.
The stronger love is. so much NOR
perfect viii be mans good works
and an Insignificant act performed i
| the strength of ardent love is wortl
more in God s sight than even martyr
i dom itself where love is lacking
/ Rev. Thomas ]. Crosby, Episeopaliaf
/ Brooklyn.
A Healing Gospel.
The Reu ] Q NLarran- "a stor of Sha