The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-24

debauchee reap the physical disasters
OF their violation of physical law, and
thousand Christs could not proven
II. w hatsoever a man soweth, tina
shan he also reap. Rev. James B.
clayton, Baptist, Washington.
CONSTRUCTIVE FORCES.
mere are certain great constructive
FORCES operating in the lives of men
anu II is not always easy to under
stand what they are.-Rev. Luther B.
wilson, Methodist, Pawtucket, r. 1.
HONESTY.
The truly honest life is honorable
IL does not stretch itself up and i'm
Pgn PUG NJ boast Of its virtues, but ask
COG 10 be merciful to me a sinner.
Key. c. A. Vincent, Congregational
list, RoXbury, Mass.
CHURCH'S SUPREME MISSION.
10 restore man to himself, to his
place In nature, to society and to God
was the comprehensive mission of the
Son of Man. and it is the supreme
mission of his church in the twentieth
century.-Rev. James B. Clayton, Bap-
fist, Washington.
HINDRANCES.
We talk too much about our hin
ORANGES. The world is getting bettel
eVerv day, because the greatest hin
ORANGE of all, that which is found il
oneself, is being overcome. There
is not day when somebody is not dy-
ing for others.-Rev. Frederick
I1Oph4llS, OQgreSaClOnaIlSL, CIllCdBO.
ROCK OF AGES.
The truth is the Rock of Ages. Just
in so far as Jesus in his spirit and life
represented the truth he is the Rock
of Ages. This is the stone that has
been so often rejected and that mus
be the foundation of all righteous char
acter and enduring civilization.-ReV
John w. RoWlett, Unitarian, Atlanta,
Ga.
SPIRITUALITY.
Spirituality is love that is constant,
the peace that outlines the tumult in
every storm, long suffering which
bides its time, the kindness whose
heart goes out to friend and foe and
rich and poor, the goodness that has
in it no fleck or flaw, the faithfulness
that makes man faithful through
good or i'll report. And that is why
virtues are utterly useless except in
the ordinary life Of stern fact and ut
terly impossible in attainment except
in the school of everyday life.-ReV.
DR.. n. MCGEE Waters, Congregation
alist, Brooklyn.
BELIEF IN RESURRECTION.
There are many mysteries in the
stories of the resurrection, but never
for a moment have we any doubt of
the truth Of them all. I don't believe
in eternal punishment, but somehow
or some way which you and I know
not about God has provided that eV-
cry child of his shall be saved. That
does not, however put the stamp of
spirit of this day is not the spirit that
appeals to fear, but the spirit that APP
peals to love. It does not enter the
mind of man just what God has pre-
pared for US but he has revealed that
there is something and has revealed it
by his spirit.-Rev. a. 3. Shields, Ep1s-
copalian, Boston.
WHERE THERE IS NO MIDDLE
GROUND.
AS Christ is one in essence with his
Father, so does he claim to be identi-
fled with the Father in honor, ident1-
cal in power, indentical in glory. He
insists on being believed by the same
faith, trusted by the same hope and
loved with the same intensity of af-
lection of his Father. In word, he
legislates as a God, he pardons as
God, he judges as a God, he Furnishes
as God, he rewards as God, he is
honored and adored as q God. He ex-
acts obedience as God, he is to be
loved more than father or mother,
brother or sister, husband or wife,
more than angels or archangels. prin-
cipalities or pOwerS-in short, more
than all that is not God. There is no
middle ground to stand upon. We must
either deny his moral excellence or de-
clare his divinity.-Cardinal James
Roman Catholic Baltimore.
CHRISTIANITY AND BUSINESS.
A business man can't succeed in the
Men do not succeed in business or fail
In business because of religious be-
Iiefs. No man ought to be so rich that
he becomes a power greater than the
government in which he lives and
which protects him. A man with
riches that makes him greater in pow
or than the government in which he
ives becomes an empire within an en-
0ire When a. man or men become as
great as that, he or they have to be
got rid of or the people will become
to him or them. No Chris |
ian can allow himself to be asso ciated |
With any business of a shady nature. |
No Christian can be successful in the |
Christian sense who makes his money |
~ oppression and robbery and by |
Killing competition. Competition and |
struggle are essential to life.-Rev. |
Dr.. Charles A. Eaton, Baptist, New
York.