The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-31

pie down the weak. The demand to-
day is for an ethical revival for a do
ing of what God reQuireS-namely to
do justly, to love mercy and to walk
humbly with thy God.-Rev. r. j.
Kent, ongregationalist, Brooklyn.
FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD.
Raphael in dying could not give his
student his skill, his spirit and his
wisdom. But Christ, who died and
rose again, breathes his spirit into his
disciples and accompanies them for
evermore. Those who do not possess
the life of Christ within them may
exist, but they do not live. Life is
that which is added to existence by
direct fellowship with him.-Rev
Charles L. White, Baptist, Waterville,
Me.
NEED OF EARNESTNESS.
The cause of many failures in life
is the lack of earnestness We are
we'll aware of the fact that there are
times when the best of men go under
in the struggle. Conditions are often
such as to render it almost impossible
for a man to win honorably and
fail. But this is the exception to the
rule. The worlds highways today are
numbered by multitudes of those
who had no strength for the strife,
because they proved towards at the
very time when they should have he
for God and the right, carried the day
and walked off with laurels we'll won
and deservingly merited. The time
for a man to prove himself a man is
when everything is against him. 1t
is no great honor to a man to be
good, to win, to get along in the world
when everything goes we'll. But to
do all this when the odds are against
him is worthy of the homage of men.
The great trouble with many is that
at the TINA when the hest of
thought and strength are required is
the time when they have the least, be-
cause they have wasted and destroyed
that which they had. Instead of call
ing into practical effect every energy
and thought they often surrender and
seek relief in the intoxicating cup,
where they lose all power, and failure
is inevitable. When the wolf of want
is at the door is the time to be in
earnest, the time for the assertion of
the truest and noblest of traits, the
time to prove that victory can be won
if we will but hold fast courageously
and honestly to the end. This holds
true not only in business relations,
but can be made most practical in ev-
eryday life. People sometimes say,
Take it easy This is the failure of
many. Few people meet with success
by taking things easy. AS well tell
captain to take it easy when he is
out at sea in a great storm. To be
worthy of the position he holds he
has no time for ease. 1t is either in
earnest and win or it is at ease and
go under in the storm. 'At ease in
Zion' is the cause of the failure of
many today in the church of the liv-
ing God. The lazy Christian is usual
ly a failure. The world is full of
those who see nothing but the world
and its pleasures about them. Indif-
ferent to their sense of duty to God.
they live only for the world and its
pleasures Alas for such, they "feed
on ashes" and when they depart this
world they are miserably poor. Were
1t even possible for some to take with
them their gold and silver it is just
possible that 1t would melt at the
place where many will spend eter-
nifty. We must. therefore. be in ear
nest not only in business life, not
only in all the various callings and po-
sitions. but we must not forget the one
thing needful. Many a man has rid
iculed the church and religion in
times of health only to acknowledge
at times of sickness that he was