The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-05

SOurce.-ReV. ulysses e. b. Pierce,
Unitarian, Washington.
GLORY OF GODS HAND.
If mans hand emits light, what
must the. glory of Gods hand be? If
man himself glories the earth, what
splendor awaits when God shall be
seen behind the ever moving hand of
Providencei-Rev. DIR. Charles Has
tings Dodd. Baptist. Baltimore.
ARTS WONDERFUL REALM.
Art is a marvellous thing. 1t is able
to take the common and produce the
beautiful. Life is enriched because of
the spiritual. Supreme art is the art
Of living. There is no other realm that
has such materials. no other that has
such possibilities.-Rev. C. T. Horn,
Methodist. Chicago.
HOPE OF THE WORLD.
The fact that God condescends to
speak to man is the hope of the world.
God broke the silence of the centuries
and spoke to man. AS humanity gets
closer to God 1t gets closer to itself.
God.-Rev. J. Howard Wells, Metho-
dist Episcopal, Washington.
HOW TO KEEP A RADIANT FACE.
As the sun anoints yon moon with
luster, the glorious soul can diadem
the opaque countenance with beauty
supernal the least expressive in re-
pose often most attractive when kin
died by the spirits glow.
Beautiful faces are those that wear.
1t matters not whether dark or fair
Love. faith and honesty written there.
Rev. DR.. S. Edward Young, Presby-
terrain, Pittsburg.
WHAT CHRISTS CROSS MEANS.
You have to be Christ's soldier to
see his cross with eyes of the soldier
lover. In days of happiness it will be
the sunshine that makes the days glo-
rfous. In nights of storm and tenn
pest it will CLEAN on his soul like a
star that blazes through tossing
clouds. In the fiercest time of battle
with temptation it will wave above his
Painting, fighting soul a banner of fire.
Rev. Robert J. Burdette, Baptist,
Los Angeles, Cal.
WHAT GODS WORK REQUIRES.
Not only should you give of your
money and your time, but you should
give yourself to the work. If you have
the love of God shed abroad in your
heart, then you will love all of Gods
creatures. Gods work requires that
you have love for fellow mortals made
in his image. You cannot do anything
without love. Religion in cold stor-
age, religion served on ice. is absolute
wretched ones and lead them to the
cross of Christ. Men and women will
judge of the Master very much by
what you are.-Rev. DIR. S. Edward
Young, Presbyterian, Pittsburg.
VALUE OF CULTURE.
The cultured life is the flower of our
the best product of time.
the ripest fruit earth holds up to heav-
en-. Every man is great because he is
a person with power of thinking,
willing, loving and knowing. but cul-
ture enlarges faculties, enricheS life.
Grander times cry out for the larger
men. 1t is only daybreak. The long
day Of glorious personal life, social
progress and national and social de-
is before us. The supreme
is for men large enough for
the waiting problems, and these men
are to furnish thought and all around
DIR. Isaac Wood, Meth
odist. Harrisburg, Pa.
THE CHURCH'S GREAT FUTURE.
Christianity is bigger than my very
imperfect creed or yours. To be saved
is not to raise your hand in some spe-
cial meeting at the behest of some re-
Iigious enthusiast and spellbinder. The
church of the living God is broader
than any particular nomination.
True religion does not consist in sing
ing a certain number of psalms or
hymns a week and telling that we are
on the road to heaven. Faith in God
cannot be measured by ones professed
relation to some particular dogma.
The walls of the old church which was
supposed to fence in everybody who
had any hope for the heavenly realm
are crumbling, but as we look we see
that all mankind is coming, slowly
perhaps, but ever so surely, into the
great church of Gods beautiful world,
into the church of a true civilization,
of nobler ideals. of a larger brother
hood, of a diviner liberation, of a
kindIier charity.-Rev. c. c. Pierce,
Btsptist, Los Angeles, Cal