The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-14

ana she would have accepted him, but
" without the fas hon home :. and So she said.
Mother, know he can get along
! have told him choose you.'" Then
| the daughter said as she was about to
pass away and the physician had been
called In for the last time. Mother.
you are the dearest. 1eveliest person
over knew" I say the secret OF that
love and sacrifice in that homo may
not have been known to the world
outside, but It was known to those
two. They understood the depths OF
the joy there Is in sacrifice. This
meeting with God every Sabbath may
seem meaningless to some who have
not come to realizing that they are IN
the presence of God. but to those who
come in the right spirit 1t IL fu1l OF
blessed meaning.-Rev. DR.. 8. Edward
Young, Presbyterian. Pittsburg.
BOTH ELEMENTS NEEDER
women similar In tastes and habits
and aims seek the impossible and the
Improbable. Social, educational and
religious life require for their full oon-
summation and symmetry both the man
soul Society will not benefit By max
ing men and women similar, but by
keeping them dissimilar. Woman in her
sphere Ii and has been as supreme and
contributions as man.-Rev. r. A.
White. universalist, Chicago.
FACING THE NEW YEAR
Let as face the new year with brave
hearts and better determination. plao-
Ing before Us as we advance the cross
Of Christ. believing that In proportion
as We are loyal to this symbol shall
We have strength given US to endure
hardness as good soldiers OF the Mas
ter, patience to suffer without giving
10 nd
and spiritual courage. 80 that We can
come through every temptation tri-
umphant and unafraid.-Rev. George
Downing Sparks. Rpisoopalian. West
THE BIow OF THE BRAMBLR
The point Of the brier waits for our
very souls. We are punished for our
sins because we are punished by them
1t Is beyond our power to dodge the
blow Of the bramble. 1t Grows within
piaits its crown of thorns for our
brows- God help usl Only he can
And he will. Regicide Is virtue here.
Dethrone your brambles in all realms
be ruled only by the noblest and most
fruitful ideals. Let US beware lest
Jotham's fable be our biography-Rev.
w. c. Biting, Baptist, St. Louis.
MASSES IN CITIES REQUIRED THE
BEST.
The masses in our cities require our
very best preaching, architecture ana
music. It is q mistake to try to reach
them with cheap and nasty appliances.
II had my way, I would put the most
beautiful churches among the poor, so
that 1t would be only q step from the
squalor Of the tenement house into a
new and contracted world. The poor
used to be taught to be patient under
their sufferings in hope Of blissful
hereafter, but now they are waking up
to the fact that the rich. in their re-
fnement of selhshness, propose to get
the better of them in both worlds
Rev. Edward Judson. Baptist. New
York
EONEHIP WITH GOD.
It is not enough to believe in GOD,
This is not the whole gospel. We
must likewise have faith in ourselves
as the children of God The idea OF
his own kinship with God was to Jesus
a central and fundamental conviction,
an essential and vital principle OF reli-
gion, and he invited all mankind to
Join with him in striving to attain the
consciousness of their flial relation
ship to the heavenly Father. Far
from claiming any exclusive right as
the only Son Of God. he constantly as
sumed that the only thing needful to
esta blish similar claims with his own
In the case Of any other person was
the desire to be in right relations with
God and man. Sonship with Godl
This was the secret Of the great
Teachers inspiration ana power and
to share this sublime idea with him
and learn Of him to draw from the
Spirit the love and truth we need to
make as worthy to hold our proper
place in the divine household.-Rev.
DR.. Bowser, Unitarian. Atlanta. Ga