The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

will find heaven very dull until they
are used to the back seats.-Rev. Dr.
Charles H ParkhurSt, Presbyterian
New York
ONLY PASSING CLOUDS.
Whenever God sends clouds across
the sky they are only passing clouds.
They never stay. 1t is only we who
persistently dwell in darkness" and
shut out the sunshine of life-the joy
of living. Open the windows of the
soul, tear away the blinds that screen
or altogether shut out Gods sun
shine.-Rabbi H. Pereira Mendes, New
York.
TWO PERILS.
Tho spirit of Industrial revolution is
abroad, and, while it finds its instru-
ments among the idle poor. it finds
it's provocation among the idle rich.
Though the social current runs for the
most part clear, there is froth upon
it's surface and sediment beneath it,
and it is difficult to say which consti-
tutes the greater peril. the social froth
at the top or the social sediment at the
bottom.-Rev. DR.. Daniel Russell,
Presbyterian, Pittsburg.
AN OPEN DOOR CHURCH.
A church cannot be conducted like
a club. The club has it's place, but it's
rules are not for the church, and when
a church attempts to regulate its mem
bership and attendance by the rules in
force in clubs it defeats itself and
ceases to serve its founder A church
has no right to consider a mans purse.
the street he lives on or who his father
was. Every really Christian church is
an open door church.-Rev. A. Eugene
Bartlett, .Universalist, Chicago.
SATISFACTION.
Satisfaction is as fatal to progress
as despair. Whatever of attainm ent
the past has won for US must be the
point of new departure and the pledge
of better things to come. for growth is
the law of life No man is good today
h iS ha
day. No wasting time with vain re-
gretS. No satisfaction with the second
best for us before whom stands the
Christ in. his peerless manhood. Let
US follow him to 1ife's end and crown.
Let nothing in the past cheat us out of
his riches or swerve us from his high
aim. We have nothing to do with yes
terday but to get a sunlit tomorrow
out of it.-Rev. Milton S. Littlefield,
Presbyterian, New York,
THE LOVE OF NEIGHBOR.
Love is the motor that drives every
human life, and the individual will
may climb up the heights of exalted
nobility or may steer in the rut of de-
pravity or may turn into every byroad
or highroad that seems the smoothest.
The motive is always 1ove-either pure
and beautiful or tainted. perverted,
ugly. The perfection of what we do
depends upon the dignity the intensity
and the purity of the love that prompts
US, and we seek perfection with the
same craving that we seek self; hence
in prompting our welfare we would
follow the way that tends most to per-
lection, and our divine Saviour points
out as that way the love of neighbor
If the love of God expands and de-
veIops the higher faculties within US
and all but makes divine those who
heed its impulses, so the love of neigh
Dor, like unto the other, brings out
what is noblest in mans nature.-Rev.
Thomas z. McGuigan. Roman Cath
Ollie, Washington.
THE HOME A TRAINING SCHOOL.
What should be the home in which
the child is known thereby? 1t ought
to be a training school, where every
thing shall be taught and done that
can develop true and noble manhood
and womanhood. And first there
should be strong religious influence.
wisely exerted, not as a stiff system of
harsh police regulation, but genial and
loving, bright with beauty and attrac-
tive to the young. And next there