The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-30
In THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
What the Church Folks Are Thinking About and Doing
Religious News From Everywhere.

ual power.-Rev. william Ross, Pres
byterian. Mortified. Mass.
CARNATIONS.
There are gradations of experience,
gradations of happiness and grada-
lions of reward. We shall be just as
happy as our experience makes it pos
sible to be, and that means attain
tment-Rev. E. L. Powell, Baptist,
louisville.
HUMAN THOUGHT.
| Our thoughts flow to each other as
rivers bear on their bosoms argoSies
| OF commerce from the busy city to
export only sham products. and others
deadly poison.-Rev. d. r. McMillen,
Methodist, Salt Lake City. Utah.
LIFELONG BOND OF CHRIST.
The faith that begins by going to
the very roots of our being and enlist
ing the heart is a lifelong bond to
Christ at various times or at all times
lowly with reverence, burning with
zeal, ardent with hope and glowing
with love.-Rey. DIR. Gilbert e. Ire
land. Christian church, st. Louis.
NO TRIFTING WITH SIN.
We must have sin everywhere. It Is
pot the person We detest, but the prin-
cipie: not the sinner. but the sin. Don't
don't want the devil to say anything
good about us, because it we live right
that is impossfble.-Rev. W. L. Hunter.
Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
The greatest secret of success is work,
work, work. I feel sorry for the man
who. wants work and cannot get 1t, but
pity the man who can get work and
does not want it. Judgment, economy
and the like are important elements in
success. but all these are worthless
without work.-Rev. L. NJ. thinner
man, lutheran, Baltimore.
GODS CHIEF TASK.
Gods great task is to make man. For
he ~ 0fI1r
when 1t came from his hands. All the
years of time are to be devoted to the
making of man. This is mightiest
work. The Bible characterizes the
heavens as the work of Gods fingers,
tracing their marvellous beauty, but
when he brings man from sin to ri7ht-
eousness he makes bare his mighty
arm. Calvary and the fathomless love
of the or. IS were a part of the price OF
mans redemption. At the gates of the
city beautiful Jesus VIII present 81 re
deemed soul as the masterpiece of di-
vine workmanshfp.-Rev. DR.. William
J. Williamson, Baptist, ST. Louis
@COMRADESH1P WITH GOD
When one attempts to point out the
way in which comradeship with God
may be realized, one is at, = great dis
advantage and may fail to satisfy wait
ing souls because every individual must
find out the way for himself Exper-
fences vary epdlessly, ard it is through
these experiences that the vital truths
Of life are made real to US. But make /,
bold to say that God is always ready: |
it is we who are unready. COmrade"
ship with God is more a matter of affec- |
lion than of knowledge, moro triumpli |
Of faith than a demonstration of sight |
God cannot make clear to US at once
the truth that shall make us free, nor |
could we comprehend such a revelation |
If it were made. The way of moral and |
spiritual achievement we all must tread. |
There is no other way of advance con-
but our souls may have faith |
In the friend with whom they walk and !
It, God is no longer king demanding
Of us unquestioned obedience. He is
with whom we may reason.
believing that in many ways his wis
dom and justice will be made clear. We
ccept the conditions of life he gives us
as opportunities for working out, with
Dur Father, the no5lest ends OF being.
We need him, and ne needs us. Without
him we could not be, and without us
his purpose are =, tard, j and the COM
ng of his kingdom hindered. Was 1t
not in the high region of comradeship
With God that Jesus was able to say, '"I
and my Father arc one?" 4
This conlradeship is not easily attain
ID; it is too precious for that. 1t Is
natural. but 1t must como In its place in
he order Of growth. First that which
s physical, then that which is spirit
lal." God is ever ready to meet US and
walk with us, and the imperfect condi-
ions of our own lives that hinder full
communion with him nay be overcome.
rhe consecrated will may help the
rusting heart. Here" as has been
aid, "are our lives, shut in, limited,
elf absorbed, and here are the mes
ages of God, knocking at our door. a-.d
between the two only one barrier, the
,arrier of our own Wills. Religious ed
lcation is simply the opening Of the
oor of the heart" So, we may say,
with Cd begins with ''the
ening IF the door of the t.eari- Rev.
ohm P Forbes, Unitarian, BROOKLYN
CHURCH NOTICES.
First Unitarian church Rev. J.. H.