The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-11
RY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
. The Corinthian games were famous
Paul unlike some modern reHSlouI97
Leaders. kept himself in touch with al
nhases of human life, so that he might
Well have been the author of the great
epigram: at am man, and nothing
that is human is foreign to me
he was familiar with the
Games of the city in which he had
lived, and to which he was writing the
present letter. So he drew upon THESE
notable athletic meets for inquire 70
express a profound religious truth: Il
therefore so run, as not uncertainty;
SO fight 1, as not beating the air; but
I bruise my body, and bring 1t into
bondage"
The place of the body is a second
place The gross forms of thought and
practice which put the body first are
foes of human progress. Man is not
man at his best until he has won com
plete dominion over that unrnly crea-
ture. his own body
There is a sort of door-mat religion
which believes that the supreme virtue
is in making our ones self to be of no
account. Self abasement; the shrink
ing from aggressive endeavor, and a
sort of self-conscious humility are
marks of this mistaken philosophy.
crowd. He believed in being winner,
and not in ascribing his. failures to
any mock modesty. His motto, given to
the Corinthians, is a good one for
run. that We may attain" Get out of
the great horde of .excusers and be-
come doer. In colloquial speech, be
not has been" or "a might have
ders proper success is a weight; cast
it off Even so run, that We may at
TAIN
Any indulgence which leaves a per-
son with lessened powers is dissipation,
persons catalogue of Thou shalt
nots."
The truly self-mastered life is the
story, written in letters of gold in the
annals of the rescue missions and the
churches. when the Keeley cure
fails, try the Calvary cure" said a
mission worker to a crowd of down
and-outs. That advice has been tested
and found good. In the McAuley Mis-
sion, down in Water street, New York,
may be found sons of wealth whom
whom education could not save, once
men whom strong wills
could not save; but who joyfully con-
fess that they have been redeemed by
the power of the Lord Jesus Christ.
They who are temperate in all
things will be even temperate in their |
talk about temperance
All excess begets distress.
The reins of the body must be given
into Christ's hands ere he can fully |
reign over the soul.
There is a beautiful social ideal to- |
ward which all dreamers look. 1t con-
ceives of a community wherein men
and women have subjected their lower |
nature to the higher, and live for the |
great goals of mutual he1pfulness and |
Because brother
hood is the standard of that perfectd
society, no man sins against himself; |
for it is impossible for one member of |
q body to be hurt without loss and in
Jury to all. There have been many at
Lempts to legislate this golden age into !
existence. but they always have failed, |
and always will, fail, since only a new /
and regnant life principle even the
impaired character of Christ, in the |
hearts of individuals, can introduce |
4 brotherhood that will be real and |
workable. We are steadily progressing |
toward this long-desired morning; but |
when it dawnS it will not be called the |
Golden Age. nor Utopia, nor Socialism, |
but the Kingdom of Heaven.
The first service anybody can rem
der society is to present 1t with a