The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-15
-Rev. DR.. John Reid Shannon, Meth
odist Episcopal, Washington.

l-Rev. DR.. John Reid Shannon, Meth
odist Episcopal. Washington.
BEWARE OF RIDICULE.
Rfdicule has killed more men and
women than poison Many man
bent upon reform and a. true upbuild-
| ing of character has been swayed by
sheer or by laughter when just little
| pressure of a helping hand would have
saved hinn.-Rev. A. P. Wedge, Bap-
! fist, Lowell, Mass
NEED of UP 70 DATE THINKING.
| Many men who to day wear coats of
the latest cut cherish ideas which are
a style of five centuries ago. before the
reformation of Luther began. What
as up to date as the manner of our
dress.-Rev. Robert Fulton, Presby-
| terrain, Indianapolis, Ind.
| BLESSED ARE BELIEVERS.
| The wording may have his pleas
ure and the fortunate man his happi-
ness but the believer has and is salts
| fed with the blessedness that comes
from his faith in Christ, membership
\ in his church and his moral influence
in the life of the world.-Dr. Evans,
Congregationalist, Cambridge, Mass.
SERVING. ONE ANOTHER.
To be really great one must serve
his fellow men, and any attempt at
self seeking will be fatal to self de
velopment Ministering to others is
the evidence of real greatness, and, al
| though the care of self may be the
first law Of nature. to deny self is the
first law Of grace.-WiHiam Holloway
Main, Baptist, Philadelphia
BE TRUE TO YOURSELF.
| Snite the untrue, the unclean, the
| unwholesome things to death Be
yourself, be true, be natural, be hon.
| est, be courageous dare to have con-
victions, and you will not be inglor1-
\ ously lost in the mimic ma elstrom OF
| the multitude God has never ceased
to use the men who dare to be them
| 1-TxrA Dnty Il .
70 MAKE GOOD PEOPLE.
| Nothing can make good men and
women that does not take them first
roots of their beginning. They need
to be put right in their fundamental
relationships impressed with sense
| of their duty to God and man and FUR
er.-Rev. W. R. Taylor, Presbyterian.
Rochester, N. Y.
PERSEVERANCE IN DIVINE LIFE.
True believers may become indiffer-
ent and lukewarm, but they cannot
| finally and totally fall away from the
state of salvation and shall persevere
and be finally saved. They may fali
into sin and error, but he that hath
begun a good work in them VIII per
form it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Rev. DR.. John Lee Allison, Presby-
| terrain, Washington.
lTRUTHFULNESS AND SINCERITY
A mans first duty to himself is to be
sincere-"to mean what he says, to say
what he means" !nsincer1ty underz
reaction is altogether evil. Truthful
ness is not merely speaking the truth;
| it is more than that. Truth1u!ness is
simplicity in character and sincerity
| in motive.-Rev. DR.. Thomas Van Ness,
Unitarian, Boston.
WHY MAN NEEDS A GOOD WIFE.
| A man needs a good wife to help
him interpret and discover himseI,
Man only comes to his best under the
refining. Transforming influence OF
noble wife Such wifely companion
ship tends to elevate his motives, to
vitalize his conscience, to lay the foun-
dation of ethics in his nature, to give
his whole life broader horizon:-Eev.
Dr. John Reid Shannon, Methoolst
Episcopal Washington.
LIVING FOR THE GLORY OF GOD.
We are all possessed of longing Tor
some Joy, a craving for something tnat
the heart can never be at ease unaiI a i.
comes in this life, for we can always
| long for something more. When, then,
detection comes and life SEEM weary
let us stand in thought on the mount
selves beholding the glory of the Lore
| and let us so live that When the eno
comes we may see him IN eternal siory
| in heaven.-Rev. David w. Hearn, Ro-
man Catholic, Boston.
| OUR LIFE IN THE F'OTCR E-
| Death is but a stage of development.
We enter the future very much as we
have left the present life: We viii
progress in knowledge, in holiness, IN
happiness or in the evil courses ana
ltendencies of our earthly lives. and in
view of this fact how important be-
comes the state in which we enter life
prepared or unprepared, sensual or
spiritual, the servants of God or Of the
evil one. In the light OF TINS truth OF
linTnortality what grandeur attaches to
life, How intellectually it is increased
in value when we see it under the as
meet of eternity What care one should
have to his acts when they are seeds
reaching out into undying ages! How
Idifferent become our aims and plans
when they are not to be broken by
death. but to be carried forward on
larger scale hereafter!-Rev. Junius B.
| Remensnyder, Lutheran, New YORK