The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-18


mute them into conduct and harden
them into character-Rev. Newell d.
Hills, gregationalist, Brooklyn.
LIBERTY.
Liberty is dearer to man than life
Itself Liberty with life is given. and
J. N1ecolls. Presbyterian. st. Louis
DEMANDS OF LOVE.
Many married lives are unhappy
because they thought love could live
on kisses. Love demands other things
also to feed upon.-Rev. A. M. Bailey,
Methodist. Akron, o.
GODS WORD.
The word of the Lord is the means
by which God expresses His will to
men. 1t is a revelation of God him
palian, Providence, r. I.
RELIGIONS PRESERVER.
woman Is to be the preserver of
our religion. If religion were ever to
first became unreligious.-Rev. George
L. Cady. CongregationaIst, Boston.
GREATNESS IN MEN.
That man is greatest who can draw
most readily on all the stored wis
dom of the past, who can utilize what
ment's notice.-Rev. A. P. Brown,
Baptist. Fresno. Cal.
HEART REGENERATION.
The mission of the Man of Galilee
L.
This is the ultimate means for the
regeneration of society and govern
ments.-Rev. M. A. Casey, Methodist.
Tacoma. Wash.
THE TRUEST WEALTH
He who has many friends is rich.
Indeed, one truest wealth is his
friendships. not for what in selfish
spirit he seeks to get out of them,
but because true friend possesses a
worth beyond all money value.-Rev.
DR.. Charles Bayard Mitchell, Metho-
dist Episcopal, Chicago
INTERNAL PATRIOTISM.
The true patriot is not the man who
rushes off to battle, but the one who
lives in the belief and fear of God
and leaves his sons a good name. In
but there is a vast difference between
internal patriotism and Internal pat
ronage.-Rev. John Compton Ball,
Baptist, Washington.
MORE HOME.
The greatest need of America to-
day 10 not so much more money or
more education, bigger navy or a
bigger army, or more fun or more
recreation or even more rest; it's not
more church services or more Sun
day schools, more preaching or more
newspapers or books, but it's more
home.-Rev E. r. Willard, Reform
ed, Akron, o.
FORGIVENESS.
Va 6lhGHGSS - not SpaEn1 with
God. 1t is not mood which you
create in God by your appeal to him
Forgiveness Is the perpetual condition
OF the divine power. If God were a
being in whom spasms of forgiveness
could be created we would ultimately
not revere him. The utterly awesome
thing is that there is always forgive
ness, that thou mayest be feared >"
He has never altered his mind with
regard to US for a single moment. He
has been holding out his arms of for
glVeness While we have been throwing
chance after chance away. The hos
pitality of God is open stilI-Rev. Dr.
G. A. Johnston Ross, Presbyterian,
Brooklyn.
MEETING TROUBLES IN LIFE.
According to Roman law in Christ's
day, letter carrier could compel any
man he met on the highway to go
with him mile to help carry and
defend the mail. Christ says, "Be
willing to go two miles instead of one;
do more than you are compelled to;
show a spirit of cooperation for the
general good" The principle under
lying that maxim and the spirit Christ
was intoxicating are eternal factors in
legal, social, domestic and moral con-
duct. Instead Of resisting the author
ity of law and society, we ought to
be willing to do more than we may
be required to do-to meet exactions
in gracious spirit.
Inc IITSI mile may pc 1u1 OF dis
agreeable duty and hardship in our
everyday life of struggle. Back of
earning our living, obedience to law
and the thousand exactions of life is
the inevitable "got to- which we of
ten resent. The only joys of life are
found in the second mile after we
have walked the first.
Tt is not easy to make a living.
Many men in inferior positions have,
official supervisors not fit to black
their boots and whose tyrannical do
minion would blast the happiness of
heaven. Many a good man or sensitive
woman is the victim of petty tyranny
and slight, which break the spirit.
What is a big-hearted man to do
when through force of circumstances,
he is under the authority of a micro
scopic insect of a man who can do
nothing but sting?
Walk that first mile. and a second
too. Christ by doing so made his
character the greatest among the sons
of men and little Nazareth a shrine.
What good does resentful anger do?
1t results in burnt out nervous sys-
tenn, burnt out heart and a burnt out
life. The only possible way to Danish
against those who wrong
US is to cherish the Willingness to
do them good-to walk a second mile
to help them.-Rev. DR.. J. B. Clayton,
Baptist, Washington.