The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-06

| results relating to our knowledge OF
the life OF the soul beyond the grave.
t-Rey Henry Frank, Independent,
New York
A FIXED CERTAINTY.
We want hxedness and certainty in
| our re1gion, for only when our relig-
ion is fixed certainty can it dominate
ana rule us and fill us with rest and
| peace of God.-Rev. David Gregg,
| presbyterian. Allegheny, Pa.
CHRISTIAN CHARITY'S IDEAL.
True Christian charity ought to
| for the poor, but with the poor. It
should have as an ideal the time when
there Will be no problems Of the poor.
Rev John Van Schaick, Universal
list, Washington.
EFFECT OF BROTHERHOOD.
When all men feel that they, are
brothers, then will class prejudices,
business strifes and social rancors
cease, and then will selffshness, cruel
est source of human woes. be outcast
from the eartI1.-Rev. Junius B. Rem
ensynder, Lutheran, New York.
LIFE'S PHILOSOPHY.
He who has come to look upon the
Lord Christ carries with him the con-
sciousness of what the Lord Christ
means to us. He came to the light
Of the gentiles and the glory of Israel.
LIES philosophy is realized in Jesus
Bishop Luther B. Wilson, Methodist,
Philadelphia.
SPIRITUAL POSSESSIONS.
Gratitude, personal devotion, aspira-
ton, zeal for the Fathers kingdom,
which is also our own, combine in the
spiritual passion which possesses the
soul once aroused to the meaning of
the divine overture in the gospel
Rev. Q. Ellwood Nash, D. D., Univer-
salist, Los Angeles, Cal.
UNSEEN FORCES.
How despairing we grow of the fu-
ture! We ask, what of tomorrow 2"
We see the menace of great evils in
society and in the state, and we grow
discouraged. But that is because while
evil Is so conspicuous the forces that
are set for it's overthrow. are invisible.
Rev. James Avery Norris, Presbyter-
ian. Glen Cove, N. Y.
NEED OF A SPIRITUAL BIRTH.
The spiritual birth is an absolute
necessity if we would know a spiritual
gospel, spiritual life, a spiritual hea-
ven. As in natural birth there is a |
physical life created and communicat- |
ed, so In the heavenly birth divine |
life is created and communicated
Rev. DR.. John Reid Shannon, Metho- |
dist Episcopal, Washington.
LOVE CHIEF COMMANDMENT.
The Christian of today is truer, just |
er. more faithful living and Christlike |
than the Christian of the other years. |
To these causes we bring the crown |
of our loyalty. Love is the simplest |
as it is the greatest thing. Love is |
the first commandment. 1t is the |
last commandment. 1t is the
commandments, for love is the fulfill |
ing of the law.-Rev. Wallace Rad |
cliffe. Presbyterian, Washington.
MANS CHANCE.
Life is opportunity; it is mans |
chance. Life is responding to environ
IT, Al,N -sv,r 90 f1,A HI r6
and the fin of the fish, and you can
predicate atmosphere and water. Look
at mans marvellous endowmentS- of |
body, mind and heart, and you can
little lower than God" man is placed
here ''to subdue grain of sand until
he has learned to subdue himself
Rev. DR.. Charles Edward Locke,
Los Angeles, Cal.
MAKING OF A MAN.
Man is born for heaven The object
Of creation is a heaven of angles But
man is born into the love of self and
the world. He must be reborn into
the love of God and the neighbor.
Therefore by endowment he is created
TO love himself and the world first,
that out of that love and life may
come a conquering superior life and
owe that shall be his own and felt as
MS own. Men are always led by their
owe and delights. Their love is their
good until condemned by the intellec-
uaI element of their mental sphere.
Therefore a man must have his mind
'eformed-gain new ideas and ideals
see himself as he is and as he ap-
pears before God. This is reformation,
1ut is only a change of viewpoint.
What is now necessary is change of
leart and motive and practice accord
ng to the new ideal. This is regen-
,ration. How. then, is man made ?
first, by acquaintance and experience
with God and the things
If God and judgment and compari- !
on of them with the things of self :
md the world; finally, a giving up of :
he delights of self and the world for
he sake of themselves and learning to
experience delight and joy in service .
If the Lord and the neighbor. This is
| man, a man of large view and great
Frank A. Gustafson,
Christian Church, Denver.
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