The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-14

hopes and desires, of our highest as
G. W Grinton. Episcopalian. Newburg.
THE MAN WHO is RICH.
It is. possible to be wealthy though
ing. feeling. The man of the open
spirit and sensitive thought and re-
sponsive heart is the man who is rich.
Rev. DR.. John F. Carson. Presby-
! 'But"-this is an age of CUTTERS
But knocks all the life out of good,
square. honest ana upright. But
Why sing song of appreciation and
stab it to death with the blunt point
of but REV. ]. S. Montgomery.
Ep1scopolian. Minneapolis, MINI.
CHRISTIAN SUCCESS
Success in the Christian life is like
success everywhere. You must strive
for it. You must run the race. You
must fight the battle. It is worth
else is worth while, For what shall it
profit a man if he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul Prev.
DR.. Curtis Lee Laws, Baptist, Brook
lyn.
OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE.
Life is series of examinations,
with little time for preparation. Those
who pass them go up; the others fail
tun1ties are for ALL but many are
either so unprepared that they dare
not take them or so poorly prepared
that their inefaciency is patent To
the man who is ready a temptation is
simply an opportunity, a chance to
test his moral strength, and to pre-
pare US to meet these tests is the only
purpose of Christianity and the
church.-Rev. John Hopkins Denison
Congregationalist, Boston.
PRAYERS SIGNIFICANCE
some or the greatest moral and re-
l1g1ous revivals the world has ever
spirit of prayer which hos laid hold
upon communities and nations. There
Is subtle and yet vital union between
God and those who believe in him
which seems to make necessary a will
ing and earnest cooperation with him
on the part of the people if any great
spiritual achievement is to be accom-
pllshed It is in this union of the
its deepest significance.-Rev. DR..
Walter Gallery. Baptist, Jamaica
Plains, Mass.
BE YOUR TRUEST SELF.
The religious life certainly consists
not in being some one else, but in be-
ing ones self-being ones highest and
truest self. The man who resolves to
act from the purest motives and ac-
cord1ng to his highest intelligence is
aiming as high as it is possible for any
one to aim, and he puts his endeavor
on the simplest and most direct basis
the one that has in it the least DOS |
s1b!e element of cant, artificiality and
self conscious acting. One can hardly |
do less than resolve so to live every
oay IN the year. Such an attitude is |
infinitely better than a spasmodic ef- |
tort TO Initiate some one. however ex-
alted character, once a year The
man who has such an ideal as this is
following Jesus in the most effective
way in which one person can follow |
E. Stanton Hodgin,
Unitarian, Los Angeles, Cal.
JUSTIFICATION
How is man to be justified? Faith |
IS the instrument. It procures our Jus
-lncss1on In the same way that a debt
IS paid with a check upon a large ac-
court in distant bank A man is
lustthed by faith-not a large amount
of faith, but faith. Faith can not be
measured in foot pounds, and if YOU
ave 1a1th as grain, of mustard
= you have faith as little child it
saves. Brother, a trembling hand NAV
srasp the cup that holds the healing
iraft. A trembling hand NAV bear
nat cup to parching lips, but the
weakness of the hand shall not lessen
ne power of the potion the cup con-
aims. A man is saved by faith. 1
treet while the conductor worked
With thing on the top. Then rye
cen that long iron arm reach up and
axe hold on the wire above, and the
ar would go forth as if alive and in ,
elltgent- Faith is the trolley by
which one takes hold of the life divine .
M Dy 1t man lives and moves and
Gus In the favor of God.-Rev. DR.. A.
L. Z. Morse, Baptist, Brooklyn.