The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-26

wealth, great genius or great power.
The common blessings are health,
Irlends, home and honest work.-Rev.
Or. William 7 Manning. Episcopalian,
New York.
SINCERITY OF PRAYER.
Secret prayer is the unerring Their
mometer to our life of prayer. If ever
we are sincere in prayer it is when
we are In secre. prayeG 1t is then, II
ever, that we are conscious of Cod
Dallas, Tex.
FORCES TO OVERTHROW EVIL.
we see the menace of great evils in
society and IL the state, and we grow
4 discouraged. But that is because.
While evil is so conspicuous, the forces
tnat are set for its overthrow are in
visible.-Rev. ]. A. Morris, Presbyte-
/ rian, Glen Cove, n. Y
THE GOOD AND BAD.
No woman is good woman who
spurns domestic love, hates home and
( calls children an incumbrance. The
| chlef charm OF woman is her pure
faith in holy life. Nothing out of
hell IS so ugly as bad woman; moth
good woman.-Rev. DIR. Charles Bay
ard Mitchell, Methodist Episcopal, Chi
| cago.
WHEN LIFE SPARKLES WITH
JOY.
Look on the bright side. The world
is fuil OF beauty, and life sparkles
with joy to tn unblurred vision. 1t is
our gloomy spirits that distort our
view. The worst evils are imagined
ones that never come to pass. Let us
| look for love and goodness and beauty
| and happiness and we will tread a
| fragrant, embowered way.-Rev. Ju-
MUS B. Remensnyder. Lutheran, New
York.
THE MILLENNIAL AGE.
The great blessing of forgiveness of
| sins which mast and even the
blessing of being awakened from the
sleep of death would profit mankind
but little if the arrangement of that
future time-the millennial age-were
not on such a scale as to permit a
thorough recovery from present mem
| tai, moral and physical Weakness
| Rev. G. F. Russell, Ccngregationalist,
Cincinnati.
SELF-CONTROL.
True self-control is called by St.
Paul a fruit of the spirit for so
Temperance" is to be translated.
True self-control comes by submitting
ourselves to God, putting ourselves in
| the grasp of and in allegiance with a
power that is stronger than we are.
Such was the method of the Master.
| Because he lived in closest communion
with the Father his life was the en-
bodiment of al spiritual and heavenly
grace. We can all follow his method.
AS Lowell says, eve are all tall
| enough to reach Gods hand, and an
gels are no taller BY living in COM
munion with God, as Jesus did, we
shall be able. like him, to still the
voice of anger. check the hot spirit of
revenge, cool the fervid torrent of
ambition, curb the threatening ascend
| ency of passions, as a master curbs
his dog-attain, in short, true self
| control.-Rev. De Witt L Pelton. Phi.
D., Episcopalian, New York.
| THE F'NEW MAN.
1 The best that is in MANTLE feeling
! that he is part of the human race and
making itself manifest. The social
good is gradually ascending to the
plane above the personal good. The
new man, the progressive, the one
| who is to maze the history of the flu
| ture, leaves the fatherland of thought
| and seeks the chi1drenland. The vows
of early religion do not bind him in
The deep. strong thinking Of religious
philosophers IS gaining sway. And be
the seeker for the better Individuals
or socialist. he is a religioniSt of the
sincerest type. His yearning is not fol
the fountain where he may indulge
himself in pensive pleasures. but fol
| the broad fell of life where humanity
lives. The new man is a self-achieve-
ment, a self-creation He is made Of
self and of the world, and unless these
two poles, which ever seek each other
| be Joined we cannot have humanity
Life in all its fullness will come wher
| those two requisites are joined in al
humankind. The selfish self-seekel
must go. His place must be taken by
| his larger brethren. 1t is the insatia-
BILE demand of the world, and it's TAX
ing place is not far distant.-Professol
George Burman Foster, Unitarian, Chi
cago.