The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-15

generating. unifying Christ, held by st.
Paul in his grand humanity embracing
thought. will yet be realized.-Rev.
Samuel Fallows, Reformed Episcopal,
Chicago.
GROWTH WILL NOT PURIFY.
A heart in which there is a decayed
spot will no more become a sound
heart by development than a peach in
which there is a rotten place will be-
come a sound peach by growth. That
is a fact that is taught to us by read
ing the gospel, and it is a fact that is
Istill more persuaSively taught to us by
reading our own personal experience
Rev. Charles L. Parkhurst, Presby-
trian, New York.
INTELLECT IS NOT ALL.
The intellect is a telescope whose
lens is dimmed by the mists and
miasms rising from greed. avarice,
hate, falsehood. With the heart man
the conscience man confesses his sal
vation The theologian who uses the
intellect alone has filled history with
disaster, heresy, ecclesiastical warfare
Hills, Congregational, Brooklyn.
NEED OF MEDITATION.
The greatest price the modern world
pays for it's civilization is that it loses
the power of meditation and through
losing this loses sight of God The
present age is the most wonderful age
of all times. Its literature is beyond
that of any period, but people have so
much to read that they lose the power
to think for themselves. Let us not
lose sight of God in our dealings with
men.-Rev. B. Hingley, Methodist,
Omaha, Neb.
THE GROWTH OF THOUGHTS.
God gave man a few seed thoughts
| to cultivate, only very few. You can
almost count them upon the fingers of
| one hand. All others sprang from
these. and we have public libraries fill
ed with ideas, national libraries and
| international libraries. Man is an in
tellectual laborer with God. Go into
the art world. There are only seven
colors in the spectrum which God
placed in the rainbow when he first
created the earth. French scientists
have unraveled these colors into 1,4O0
shades. Raphael took them and threw
them upon a canvas, making one of
the worlds masterpieces.--Rev Frank
NJ. Bristol, Bishop of South America.
| INSTALLMENT POLYGAMY.
| If marriage is to be simply a con-
upon every difference of whim or tenn
permanent, where is the union that
would endure? Where are all the
finer instincts of humanity which we
gain from bearing and forbearing with
each others Weaknesses We cannot
call the contract system marriage
There is no social side to such a rela-
tionship; it is simply intensive indi-
lvidualism or selfshness. It is not
monogamy. but installment polygamy.
Rev. Robert Rogers Episcopal,
Brooklyn.
I.EPROSYa is LIKE SIN
1t seemed to please God to select
lleprosy as the typical disease. 1t is
used to set forth sin as no other dis
ease. There is much space devoted to
;pa t1A l.
disease, therefore the Ieper was not
sent to a physician, but to the priest.
ILeprosy is type Of sin because it is
inherited, it is contagious it is spread
ing. it is incurab1e by human means
and is fatal.-Rev w Leon Tucker,
Baptist, Los Angeles, Cal.
CHURCH IN POLITICS
An outspoken Christianity is needed
in the world of politics. Pure patriot
ism is love of country as well as love
Of God. preacher must be a patriot;
a church member or good fraternity
man ought not to be any less. Love
for on's city, state or nation demands
that he should champion every clear
method, every virtuous act or ordi-
nance and hold up the hands of every
, honestly elected man that makes good
in promoting and bringing to pass the
blessings of a good government, an6
he must denounce in outspoken and
unm ensured terms every influence thai
, would hurt civil liberty or mar the
character of the peop1e.-Rev. E. E
|, Mckay, Methodist, Chicago.
MANKIND'S EARLY DAYS.
In the first period of mans exist
ence he lived simply from day to day
hope existed only as a blind instinc
that carried him forward. He knew
little of cause and effect, of the re1a
tons of things, of how one thing grew
= out of another; his reasoning was un
developed and erratic; ne projected
himself forward by just one faculty
} the imagination. Magic and miracle
were the controlling forces. Fountain
of youth and Ell Dorados were sought
In the skies lived divinities and angels
the theology that has come down to u
from the past 1000 or 5000 years wa
all born of this period. when mai
z lived mostly in his imagination. when
ever he rose above the british rount
of daily necessity E. S. Hodgin
D Unitarian, Los Angeles.