The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

valuable traits of character will grow
as naturally as the fruit grows upon
the tree. They will be forced out by
the pressure of the life within. No
man need tell the peach tree or the
apple tree or an orange tree to bear
IT'S own kind of fruit. The very ma
to come out on the branches of the
right kind and in the proper season.
NO man can pray to Jesus Christ and
then wish to do wrong. No man can
and cruel to his family. The real So
cial revolution which is going on
quietly is that of the conversion of
individuals. They become the heaven
OF the community in which they live.
AFTER the. power of Christ has chang
ed their lives they are the restraining
influences in their communities. They
are the examples in morals to others.
-Rev- DR.. Johnston Myers, Baptist,
Chicago.
SALVATION
The supreme need of the world is
salvation, not education. Give the ed
ucational part of the evangel, its sys-
tenn OF ethics, to an unregenerated
man and you stagger him. He simply
cannot apply it to his daily life. But
let the blood of Jesus be applied to his
heart and the eternal miracle is once
again performed.-Rev. Alexander S.
Taylor, Reformed Episcopal. Chicago.
HAPPINESS.
AAO %Ae-RPACo( QCORle are HOI THOSE
VINO i've on a mountain top, where
they crown themselves with coronet
or stars. but rather those who seek the
great shadows, the green pastures and
the ripping waters at their feet. The
f1eecy clouds in the distance may look
like the flowing robes of angels, but
they often turn out to be nothing but
fog banks, which bring only disap-
pointment. and death.-Rev. DR.. w. w.
Bustard, Baptist, Cleveland, o.
MAGNIFICENT MOSAIC
The Bible is the gathered conscious
ness of God in many souls. AS flow
ers In the garden give US the science
OF botany, as stars in the armament
give US the science of astronomy. so
does God consciousness give us the
Bible. The Bible is a magnificent Mo-
sale, all the parts of which are
grouped about one centerpiece. and
that centerpiece is Jesus Christ, the
one perfect human manifestation of
God.-Rev. DR.. John Reid Shannon,
Methodist Episcopal, Washington.
TO MAKE RELIGION MORE VITAL.
Give Jesus Christ the secret most
place in your soul and ever afterward
carefully guard it. according him a
claim upon your life which you yield
to no other and punctiliously respect
1t, come what may or may not, wealth
or poverty, social distinction or ostra-
cism, and your religion will grow year
~ more vita. and positive, your faith
be an increasing precious and as
sured reality and your old age prove
glorious Indian summer, marked by
q holy calm and alight with the re-
Elected glow of paradise just beyond
Rev. DIR. John Balloon Shaw, Presby-
terrain, Chicago.
RESPONSIBILITY OF GOD.
1t may sound overbold on our part,
but we speak reverently when we say
that we believe that God has not de-
MED his responsibility, for We cannot
ment, the highest and fullest revela-
ton of God by Jesus Christ. The
careful and prayerful student and
reader of the, New Testament is bound
to ask the question, Why this revela-
ton of Godp Our text not only con-
tains and reveals this truth; it does
more-it sh ows that God is diamet-
rically opposed to and therefore does
not permit evil. We wish to present
the subject to you in three PROPOSE
tions: ID God is responsible for the
creature he made; CD sin increased
his. responsibility; (3) God has dis
charged his responsihility.-Rev.
George L4lovd Ferguson, Reformed
Episcopal, Brooklyn.
BELIEVING.
Let every man believe all he can.
| Never surrender your old truth until
you have it IN some new form more
vital and full of power. Poor indeed
is a life when afflicted with a poverty
ofssustaining truth, but rich when
great ideas shine in upon the soul
like strs in cloudless night.-Rev.
Dr. Edward Yates Hill, Presbyterian,
Philadelphia.