The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-19

Lord--Right Rev. Etheibert Talbot.
Episcopal Bishop, Central Pennsylva-
MIA.
THE GLAD LIFE.
The surrendered life is the glad life,
not the one which seeks to be minis
tered unto, but the one which seeks TO
minister to another. It IS the life that
carries the sunlight into the burdened
places that is the glad life=Rev.
Luther B. Wilson, Methodist, Paw
tucket, r. I.
AIM OF HUMAN LIFE.
Merely living is not the aim of HUI
man life. but living so as TO contribute
to the highest well being of humanity.
We are not brought into This world to
exhaust our energies on getting enough
to eat, but for a higher and nobler end.
Rev. j. H. Mallows, Congregational
ist, Los Angeles, Cal.
CHURCH ATTENDANCE.
Churchgoing is a habit that needs
more and more to be insisted upon.
Nothing, as 1 believe, is more seemly
and human than that a part of at least
one day in the week should be devoted
to the culture of the soul and in a
place set apart for that prrpose-Rev.
Thomas Salter Robjent Universalist,
st. Paul
TO SERVE GOD.
The great souls like Moses, which
/ lift despairing people out of their SER
/ N4lUOc 10 the COulInOnDl2Ce OF
| life by making life worth living, have
the divinely bestowed gifts which en-
able them not only to s e the infinite
values of life, but the presence of God
/ in his world. We are called to serve
/ God by serving men.-Ieev. DR.. ]. B.
/ Clayton, Baptist Washington.
LOFTY AIMS
1t is only when we have lofty aims
that we gain anything worth while
! There are those who tell US to be sane
and practical, to aim at the things near
at hand, but the divine law runs coun-
ter to this sage philosophy of the
world and gives US to understand that
| II we aim at the distant we will also
secure that which is high.-Rev Dr.
Charles Bayard Mitchell, Methodist
Episcopal. Chicago.
COMING OF GODS KINGDOM
The kingdom of God vii. not come
on the earth until the churches of
IChristenGom are united Is there not
some common ground upon which
Catholic and Protestant Presbyterian
and Methodist, Episcopalian and Bap-
tist, may unite and present a solid
: are united. Why should the churches
not be?-Rev- NJ. H. Lichliters, Metho-
dist, st. Louis.
A WE'LL DIRECTED LIFE.
The length of life refers not to dura-
ton, but to direction. life may be as
It may be as short as Christ's and
almost as sublime. Length of days is
not essential to an ideal life. Lffe's
length refers to attitude rather than
attainme nt, to life as a career rather
than as a conduct. 1t is v hat we mean
when we speak of choosing ones work
in life. One may have 8 career and a
directed energy without length of
years. Keats died immortal at twenty
six. At seventeen Mozart was a court
musician, and at nineteen George
Washington was a major. But one
might live on in timel-ss life like the
| Wandering Jew and be nothing but a
shiftless doleful, worthless old man.
The length of life is made up of DELHI
crate directing power, the choice of a
career and the reach of the hand
through time It is just this power to
choose and to direct his career which
makes man a man. He has power tc
choose. to direct, to guide, to select
All other life drifts. Man has power "a
drive, to direct. The BIRDS drift with
the season. Man opposes the drift anc
builds his home among the snow and
the ice. The cattle follow the trail OF
the herd and lose themselves in the
long, lucious grass Of the valley, but
man leaves the trail and climbs fol
himself the mountains of vision.-Rev
DR.. Hugh T. Kerr, PRESBYTERIAN, Chi
cago.