The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10


though SO much is. of course. implied,
but spirit which is essentially wise
even In Its temper and action.-Rev.
Z. w. Mccormick. Methodist Episco-
pal, Brooklyn.
SOUL PERFECTION.
virtue can never be accumulated
Dy self seeking. No soul can come
far on its way toward perfection un-
III 1t shall devote its enthusiasm to
the unselfish service of humanity, un-
III 1t shall learn that its task is to
Ieacn every man.-Rev. Ira J. Hous-
ton' Congregationalist. Cleveland. o.
CHURCH VALOR THEORIES.
We all need to be told now and
Inen TO get the cobwebs out of our
brains. There are cobweb theories of
me, raise and foolish PHILOSOPHERS of
Ire. possible only to those who have
prostrated themselves before an idol
or the theater. There is nothing vir-
G 1uous IN suffering for its own sake
goo does not envy you your happiness.
rains which must be borne should be
borne herOically. Don't be afraid to
be happy.-Rev. Charles F.. Aked,
Baptist. New York.
IDEALS
Ideals are revelations of God. In
painting and poetry. in sculpture and
IN music by as much as the master
piece reaches the ideal, by so much is
1t a revelation of God. Ideal char
acter is Gods divinest revelation, and
IL is IN the field of goodness that any
man Is Justified in ambitious yearn-
lngs TO reach the highest standards.
he VINO approaches an Ideal approach
es God. He who achieves an ideal be-
comes high priest of the Perfect
One-Rev. DR.. Charles Edward Locke,
Methodist Episcopal, Los Angeles Cal.
LIES OBJECT.
If the object of life were happi-
ness simply and solely. then the many
disappointments that come to us
preme object of life were .to be saw
ed'-that is, to have guaranteed ones
soul for all future time as man
guarantees himself against loss by a
fire insurance policy-then 1ife's con-
tradictions and temptations and de-
feats could not be understood. But
life is for training, for growth, for
the elimination of the dross and the
perfecting of the spiritual and psychi-
cal.-Rev. DR.. Thomas Van Ness, Uni
tartan. Boston.
MORAL EQUIVALENT OF WAR.
We are praying in these days for
the abolition of wars. Let us have an
end of war by all means. What we
want, however, is 1.-The moral equiva-
lent of war'-something to take up
and carry over its daring, courage and
heroism. Individual sin and vice are
hard enough to eradicate in all con-
science, but sin and vice capitalized,
REINFORCED, given the proportions of a
social institution, will give way to
nothing short of the violence of a war
to the finish, war that gives no quar-
ter and accepts no mpromiSe.-Rev.
Frank Newhall White, Congregational
list, Chicago.
THE ALL GOOD AND ALL TRUE.
Love is the motive of God. Love
m "a me- nf hn
pies feet regal and kingly act. Love
will give more eloquence to stumbling
speech than all the arts of the stage
and school. Love will make copper
coins to be golden in it's spiritual al
chemy. Love will fertilize the soil
into which the seed of truth is drop
ped. Love will put the halo of saint
hood about the brow of the humblest
Christian. Love is the all good. the
all beautiful, the all true. 1t is the
odor of the flower. the flavor of the
wine, the brilliance of the gem, the
soul of the harmony. Love is the only
crown which service can wear, but he
who wears 1t is a prince and king,
whatever the service he renders.-Rev.
DR.. Spenser B. Messer, Baptist, Brook
Ign.
LIFE RICH WITH GODS PEACE.
If you imagine that you must take
care of yourself and make all your
own arrangem ents as if everything in
your life and in your home depended
upon your own efforts, then no won
der your life becomes a fear and a
great distress. But if you can real
ize that you are a creature, not crea-
tor and a child of the ever loving
Father; if you can know that the
whole plan of your life is mapped out
in the skies and that you are con-
sciously or unconsciously, as long as
your desire is pure and right, working
out the divine intention-if that is
your faith, then, whether veal comes
to YOU or woe, bleak winter or beau
teous summer, God will come with ii
and your life will be rich with the
very peace of Godfrey. DIR. John H
Prugh, Reformed, Pittsburg.