The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-19

business is because you don't stick to
anything.-Rev. r. A. Torrey, Evan
gelist, Chicago.
THE CHILD OF GOD.
Man is a child of God, sometimes
frail. selfish, unjust, sinful, yet still a
child of God. Through the ages he
has been progressing from the lower
to the higher and is still hearing the
summons from one on the heights
Rev. T. E. Potterton, Presbyterian,
Brooklyn.
TRUE ARISTOCRAT
The true aristocrat is he who builds
his life structure On a foundation of
worthy deeds, who passes through the
years doing good to all on his way,
and who when he takes his exit from
the earthly stage leaves the world bet
ter than he found it.-Rev. Madison c.
Peters, Baptist, New York.
LIFE'S NEED.
If you have riches, God bless you
in them; if you have a competency,
God bless you in it; if you have moth
ing, God bless you in 1t. What is life's
need? Soul and God and having the
blessing of God Almighty. Everything
comes that needs to come.-Rev. Will
liam A. Quayle, Methodist. Chicago.
MAKING OF MEN RATHER THAN
MONEY.
Our chief business as nation is not
to make money, but to make men. A
legitimate commercialism, a reason
able wealth, is well. but a wealth
stunted and underfed children, of So
cial hatred and strife. is not worth the
game.-Rev. R. A. White, Universal
list, Chicago.
FRUIT OF SELFISHNESS.
Unsel1shness directs the mind
heavenward, for nothing can stop the
flight of thoughts disentangled from
self or check the affections unbound
childhood. its blossom in youth, and
it's fruit is reaped in the blessing of
manhood and womanhood. To the one
it is strength to support the stress
of life, to the other a sweetness to
soften the sorrows.-Rev. Thomas E.
McGuigan, Roman Catholic, Washing
ton.
COMPLETE RELIGION.
The Christian religion must resume
the original relation which it had with
science, art, commerce. the drama and
amusement. No religion is complete
without a relation to every depart
ment of life. No department of life is
complete without relation to religion.
There is no science, no amusement of
a legitimate kind no true pleasure. no
honorable vocation in which a proper
ly adjusted nature may not immedf-
ately find and enjoy God. Rev. DR..
William c. Stinson, Reformed, New
York
THE GOSPEL AS SALVATION.
The gospel is not only a manifested
power. but it is manifested for pur-
pose, and that purpose is to save lost
men. Salvation! The joyful sound!
None sweeter fills the earth No grand
er anthem swells the chorus in heaven
or rings through eternity than the song
of redemption through "the blood of
the Lamb of God" What JOY in heaven
must there be over one sinner saved
from the bent to sinningi Rome's
physical training saved the Romans
from defeat, giving them many glor
ious victories. Grecian culture gave
that nation the ascendency over all in
teIlectual opposers. The stern morals
of the philosophers lifted them above
many of the debasing sins of their day.
but the salvation of our text does not
help a little. 1t is not patchwork. 1t
gives to the soul complete victory. 1t
saves all who test its saving power
Rev. George H. Finn, Methodist,
PURPOSE OF THE ETERNAL.
Christianity while it directs our
minds to the contemplation of the glo-
ries of the heavenly state, does not do
so exclusively. 1t teaches US also that
here on earth a kingdom is to be es-
tablished wherein dwelleth righteous
ness with all the kindred blessings that
flow therefrom. Slowly 1t may be, but
surely this purpose of the eternal will
be fulfilled. The Kingdoms of the
earth-and by Kingdoms something
more is meant than the various politi-
cal states into which nattonalities are
divided-are to become the Kingdoms
of our Lord and of his Christ. The
true Kingdoms of the world are the
moral forces and interests which bear
sway over human life, and it is these
which are to be so modified and
changed by the spirit and teaching of
Jesus Christ that they Will eventually
become mis- wherein he will reign. And
the present restlessness is but a sign
to those who can see that we are on
the eve of another forward movement