The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-28

the thought that we ourselves feel thai
We are certainly doomed to failure
Rev. F. D. Talmage, Presbyterian, Los
Angeles.
BIG SUCCESS IN LIFE.
To make life big with success ones
thinking must be perneated and puri-
fed with that which is true. To sham
in life is to fellowship with shame
Rev. A H. Herries, Presbyterian Union
City, Pa.
FINE ANTIDOTE FOR SORROW.
| Activity is one of the best antidotes
/ hearts by turning the floods of grief
upon the wheels of practical and benef-
icent activity.-Rev. j. l.. Hillman,
Methodist, Cleveland.
| INDwEILING ENERGY.
Christianity is not a form of words.
| not system of rules and ceremonies.
| but an indwelling energy; Something
| that quickens, lifts. impels transforms;
not letter, but spirit.-Rev. A. ". Ray
mond, Congregationalist, Schenectady,
N. Y.
CHRISTIANITY'S GRANDEUR.
Christianity is looked on as a great
school of morality, and we are led to
contrast it with other schools Of moral
ity of ancient times and of the present
day. And the more we study 1t as
school of morality the more we realize
how grand Christianity is.-Rev. F. L.
Patton, Presbyterian, Princeton, N. j.
EFFECT OF OUR THOUGHTS.
Thought rules the world. Therefore
it rules men, and their success and fail
ure depend upon what they think.
Envy and hatred bring disease and des-
troy the body as well as corrode the
soul. Thoughts of love and kindness
are builders of the soul, and they glori-
fly the body and bring happiness and
health.-Rev. DIR. E. L. House, Congre-
gationaliSt, Spokane, Wash.
A TEMPER OF SOULS.
Religion is a perfume that scents all
words and deeds but refuses to con-
fine itself to cant phrases or sancti-
monious vocabulary. 1t is temper or
soul that brightens all relationships in
life, but rebels against limitation to
melancholy moods and doleful out
looks. 1t is like the circulation of the
blood in the body. 1t reaches all ex-
tremities of being. 1t is so spiritual
that it eludes all forms, surpasses all
creeds and bursts all efforts to box 1t
Rev. w. c. Biting, Baptist, st. Louis.
THE ABUNDANT LIFE.
The abundant life that Christ brought
to men stands for purity of character.
Sin means death today just astruly as
in Adams day. Forsaking sin is one
of the conditions which must be met
before the life of God can enter the
soul The power of the gospel is de-
liverance from sin. When the abun-
dant life begins in man it is at once
a force that worketh righteousness,
not merely serving as safeguard
against sin, and in that sense a mega
tive force, but it is a positive force,
finding expression in strong. active
righteousness in the life.-Rey. Robert.
Bagnell, Methodist, Brooklyn.
TRUST IN HIM.
Why should your heart not glow
with emotions of gratitude and love as
the sun glows with sparks? Perchance
God hath peeled you. Nay, perhaps his
angel has come, and the footprint in
your house hath been grave, your
less. your goods may have gone. Let
God take away all things, if only he
takes away never his presence, his pill
lar of fire by night. When reason
doubts, then let the heart stand up
with flashing eyes and heaving breast
to answer, at have felt his love, and
1 will trust" Above all the fury of the
storm, out of all the din and confusion,
there comes a voice saying, all Is Wen.
God faints not, neither is discouraged.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, Congre-
gationalist, Brooklyn.
PRESENCE OF CHRIST.
He is essentially everywhere. No
spot in the universe is remote from
him From the moment one becomes
follower of Christ, Il am with you
always" becomes a promise to that
soul, the performance of which is new
er suspended The existence of the
precious truth may be forgotten or ig-
nored by his followers; but, forgotten
or remembered, it is every moment true.
and in order to gather its full wealth
of blessing we have but to hold it
steadily in mind. There are times
when we unconsciously perceive the
presence of Christ. when the convic-
ton will dawn gently upon us that
Christ Is by our side; times when his
enswatning presence is nearer than
the air we breathe or the thoughts we
think-yea, nearer to us than we are
to ourselves. These momentary CLEANS
are but the hints of truth which the
Holy Spirit reveals from time to time
in order to acquaint US with the divine
order, to let us know of the stability
of the gracious economy, of the 1nteg-
rity of the divine promise and OF the
constancy of Jesus Christ the great
companion.-Rev. John Wesley Hill,
Of