The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-18

death from our life would be SUI
pendous calamity. 1t would cut us
which we are made.-Rey. DR.. John
Reid Shannon, Methodist Episcopal,
Washington.
PIETY OF COLUMBUS.
We praise Columbus for what
makes him admirable in the eyes of
the world, but. above all, for that
which the world little notes or values
his deeply religious spirit. AS is
highly fitting and even logically i'm
perative. we give our tribute to his
honor distinctly religious character.
Rev. John B. Harvey, Catholic, Ra-
cine, Wis.
SYMPATHY FOR THE FALLEN.
There are many warnings and illus
trationS of Sarahs who have fallen all
about US, and their stories touch the
true heart and call for heroic action
and sympathy from every true child
of God. To the fallen we can point
to the Christ who saved the Magda-
lene; to the true we can speak the
word of warning.-Rev. E. L. House,
Congregationalist, Spokane, Wash.
LINCOLN HELPED BY RELIGION.
In the darkest hours of the war
those before Gettysburg-Lincoln
spent night in the study of Henry
Ward Beecher. What happened there
none but those two great seers knew.
but the president once said, IT have
often gone upon my knees because
there was nowhere else to co. OF
the churches he said, God bless all
who in our great trial giveth us the
churches. Rev. A. B. Beresford,
Universalist, Cincinnati.
CHRISTIANITY AND PHILAN-
THROPY.
Christianity will convert the world
when we preach and practically ap-
ply to society the new social ideals of
Jesus. The world seems to recognize
that there is a vast difference between
Christianity and churchianity, and if
the church is willing by her silence
to divorce Christianity from philan-
thropy and reform and the progress
of civilization she must be content to
occupy small place and never dream
of conQuering the world.-Rev.
Madison c. Peters, Presbyterian, New
York.
LACKS IMAGINATION.
The first serious limitation of this
so called new religion is that it lacks
imagination. DR.. Eliot has given us
the floor plan of a house. very useful
from the architects standpoint. but
the most important truth about the
house. This new religion has not got
out of the blue print stage. 1t is
thoroughly reasonable, but is deficient
in emotional elements. 1t is prose,
not poetry. The masses will not care
for it for the same reason that ten
people read Robert Burns where one
reads Matthew Arnold.-Rev. DR..
Clifton D. Gray. Baptist. Boston.
MATERIAL AGE.
We live in such a materialistic age
that it is not surprising that material
values and bulk and weight and size
and display should smother the finer
things of the spirit and of the mind
and of heaven. but one learns in the
long run that enduring values have
n n wit oI, I,
cash. The other choice is between
self and God. 1t is the problem as
to whether I shall measure my life by
what the world brings to me or by
what I shall be to God. He who lives
to himself is dead. but he that doeth
the will of God abideth forever
Rev. Charles E. Guthrie, Methodist
Episcopal Washington.
THE MASTERFULNESS OF JESUS.
The question of my text, what
think We of Christi" now presses
upon our consideration. The setting
of this text is instructive1y suggestive.
For some time in his discussion with
the Pharisees they had been asking
our Lord questions. His answers put
the Sadducees to silence. and their
confusion greatly gratifed ~. the
Pharisees It is now their turn to
celebrity and deXtefity of his replies.
Never was there so slxillful a debater
as Jesus Christ. He was masterful in
his clarity OF thought, simplicity Of
speech and purity of motive Rev.
r. S. Macarthur. Baptist New York.
EVIL FEARS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Has the world of evil a different
feeling toward sham and hypocrisy
today from what it had in Jesus
time? Never has any age respected
Jesus as our age does. Good people
1t stands in awe of. But how much
does it care. do you think. for any
modern. make believe follower of
Jesus Christ? Instead of trembling.
1T chuckles. No; it is more serious
far than that. 1t resents their at
tacks as a kind of insult. 1t spurns
their interference and fairly .despises
them for their unreality and false
ness. Christian pretenders have not
so much as the respect of the evil
world, much less its confidence or it's
fear. If therefore follower of
Jesus is only pretender. not only has
he resting upon him the wrath of
God. the rejection of Jesus Christ
and the distrust of those who are
true, but also the despite of the
wicked.-Rev. John Balloon Shaw,
Presbyterian, Chicago.