The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-14

Rev. ]. w. Roberts, Congregational
list, New York
SPIRIT OF HELPFULNESS
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of
wider today than ever before.-Rev. P.
H. Swift, Methodist, Chicago.
HOW WE ARE TO CONQUER.
To accomplish the impossible the
guidance of God is first of all re-
quired. There is no impossible where
he guides. By strength Of wisdom. by
Spiritual strategy, more than by mere
force of compulsion of heavier forces
are we to conquer.-Rev. w. H. Will
son. Presbyterian, Brooklyn.
POWER OF REVELATION.
Ones life is dependent on the vision
and the disposition with which he is
gifted. The Christian revelation gives
soul a scope of vision commensurate
With the vastness of the infinite and
the eternal. And it iacludes the happi-
ness and Immortality of perfect being
for each individual, independent of
earthly circumstance and condition.
All other revelations dwarf and at
tenuate the scope of human vision.
Christianity teaches not a material
evolution in terms, but an evolution
of each person who follows its pre-
cepts. Says one of the leading teach
ers, Grow in grace until We attain
the fullness of Christ" In science
and its teachings there are limitations,
but in faith there are for the regcn-
Grated soul infinite life and pleasures.
Escape the thraldoms of this world,
with all it's modern implements, and
you enter the amplitude and affluence
of Godfrey. Francis Washburn,
Episcopalian, Newburg, N. Y.
THE ABANDONMENT OF WISDOM.
What is the sin in gambling? All
people will admit the guilt, but few
can tell just where the guilt lies
Gambling is defined to be ito play at
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money or anything of value on the
issue of game of chance by either
playing or betting on the rlay of 9TH
ers; hence to engage in financial trans
actions or speculations dependent for
success chiefly upon chance or I'M
known contingencies" Now, wherein
is the sin of that sort of transaction?
1 answer that, in the first place. the
sin consists in the reinforcement of
reason. No more surely are the chart
and compass placed in the hand of the
sailor to guide him than is reason CIV
en- to man to direct him in his earthly
career. The sailor who casts his chart
and compass overheard, thus wrecking
his vessel and drowning his crew, is
no more a criminal than the rational
being who, with a full knowledge of
the value of his reason in the conduct
of his life. willingly casts overheard his
godlike endowment of ratiocination
and welcomes on deck every wild
fairy of fate who may chance to fly
his way. God holds us responsible for
the right use of our powers. A moral
being in his every choice should fol-
low reason. If he turn aside from
this and take any other guide in any
thing he is condemned by reason and
nothing can Justify him. It may be
quite reasonable for him to follow
guide wiser than himself, to take good
eyes where his own are dim, but to
take a guide without reason is neces-
sarily to be condemned by reason. No
one can justify himself or another for
doing this. To gamble is to risk ones
possession of something upon chance.
1t is the abandonment of wisdom
Rev. DR.. Charles Bayard Mitchell,
Methodist Episcopal, Chicago.