The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17

the seed we sow. 1t is loyalty to things
highest and best. the good old way or
Shipper, Unitarian. Atlanta, Ga.
SECRET OF SOCIAL REFORM.
| In better home life lies the chief
secret OF social and moral reform. To
for Transforming the rising genera
| ton with better habits, sentiments
| ana principles Among the best
charities of our time Is that of sup
planting the wretched novels in the
siums OF our great cities with better
homes, also sending children into the
country for summer vacation or for
| free career amid pure air and healthy
surroundings. Amid the swift cur
rents OF evil and good It is for each
one to do our best toward creating
the ideal home. mighty In blessing.
Build 1t on rock foundations of en-
during integrity, four square in cul-
ture and liberality, with nothing false
to hide. all transparent and pure as
clearest crystal. So shall come the
holy city, coming down out of heaven
as a city of God.-Rev. Rush r. Ship
pen. Unitarian, Atlanta, Ca
HYPOCRISY AND GODLESSNESS
If religion lack reverence toward
God and sincerity in worship, better
have no fire on Gods affairs. no sacri-
flee offered. than this hideous sham.
Insincerity in religion is more than no
religion at all. Hypocrisy is more than
godlessness.-Rev. H. T. Lyman
WI eaton, Episcopaiian. Ridgefield,
n. J.
TRUE DOMESTIC COMMON
WEALTHS
Oh. for the home of the Bible, the
family altar. the blessing at the meal,
the sacred song, the home that is
Joined hard to the church. Such
homes are the true domestic common
weaiths. From such republics have
come the men and women into the
larger republic, winning honor in ev-
cry sphere OF life. devoting time.
strength and money to the service of
God and their fellow men.-Rev. Will
liam c. Stimson, Reformed. New
York.
REALITY.
What Paul affirms and what the
gospel affirms over and over again is
that it is not speech, that 1T is not do
ing, but being. that God regards. Be-
ing is finer than doing, finer than say
ing, finer than any expression which
1t is possible for it to make OF itself.
So 1t is not speech, but reality, that
God looks for, and the church waits
for 1t and the world is hungry for 1t in
you and in me.-Rev. DR.. Donald D.
McLaurin. Baptist, Brooklyn.
TRUE CHRISTIAN UNITY.
Christians are divided into many folds, |
even as 1T is the divine will that they
should be, they are grouped into diverse
communions, but this certainly is the
Lords will. 1t does an Episcopalian
church good to have a Methodist church |
not far away, and 1t helps a Methodist |
church to have an Episcopalian church /
in the same town. Every Catholic priest /
is helped if he has around him a circle |
of Protestant preachers, and every city |
IS all the better If it has in it the great |
Roman Catholic church, with it's en- |
phasis upon obedience and reverence |
and loyalty to the traditions of the past. |
Let US then cultivate kindly generous, |
sympathetic feeling toward all the fol- |
lowers of the Lord. / know people who |
never refer to the Baptists except to 4
bring in something concerning water, as /
though the great Baptist communion /
had never done anything for the world |
but dip men and women under water. |
There are Christians who never refer to /
the Methodists without some sarcastic |
fling about their shouting, as though |
the great Methodist church had never /
done anything in the land of ours but |
shout. There are those who never speak
of the Episcopalians without a sneer at /
their formality, as though formalfty 4
were the only product that Episco- /
palianism has as yet brought forth All l
the great communions of the church of |
God have labored and sacrificed and 1
wrought victories and added to the I'm /
perishable spiritual wealth of the world.
All honor to them all and love for them |
all, and let us thank God that it is true /
today as it has been true from the be-
ginning and as 1t Will be true to the end.
that there is but one body and one spirit
and one hope, one Lord. one faith and
one baptism one God and Father Of all,
who is over all and through all and in
aI.-Rev- Charles E. Jefferson, Congre-
gationalisr, New York.