The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-22

earth.
Thou mad'st it not for grief, but
nirth,
Therefore I Will be glad
And let who will be sad.
SOCIAL UNREST.
Social unrest is the most hopeful
sign of the time. Without it there can
| be no gress.-Rev. Charles Stelzle,
Apostle of Labor, Boston.
SIN IS REALITY.
The man who argues that there IS
, no sin either WiIlfully lies or else he
does not know his own heart.-Rev.
DR.. Broughton, ngregationalist, At
lanta, Ga.
SEEING ONES FAULTS
The individual who sees his faults.
turns face about and starts out in an
other direction is sure to be more use
full each succeeding year.-Rev. L. c.
Reutley, EpiscopaIian, Indianapolis.
Ind.
WAR ON MANS INHUMANITY.
We must fight the inhumanity OF
man to man. fight it in the faith that
some day 1t will cease to be. and to in
woke in our battle the dear and sub
lime humanity of Jesus Christ and
through him the loving humanity of
God-Rev. George A. Gordon, Congre-
! gationalist, Boston.
DISTORTING THE BIBLE.
! The kingdom of Jesus Christ has
| been delayed by men seeking truth in
| the word of God to establish their sys-
/ tenn of theology. Many of the preach
ers of other days went to the Bible to
find what they already knew and dis
torted the book to sustain their pre-
conceived doctrine.=Rev. ]. G. Baton,
Presbyterian, Philadelphia.
THE PLACE FOR MONEY.
There is money, hordes of it, heaps
vestment IN stocks and bonds rather
than souls and bodies. The bulls and
bears below so loudly that the sobs,
signing and crying Of the heather can
not be heard. Trade and traffic, pleas
ure and pursuit, claim time and talent
which should be devoted to evangelical
tion.-Rev. w. l. Tucker. Baptist, Los
Angeles, Cal.
BEST TO HAVE A SPECIALITY.
God pity the youth who does many
things equally well and has no apti-
tude for a specially. He is smart in
many ways, but not in some particu-
| lar. There is such a thing as fatal
gift of smartness'' as we'll as fatal
| gift Of beauty" Better plod at one
thing and do 1t well than to fit bril-
liantly from task to task as humor
dictates, for you will surely succeed at
nothing.-Rev. G. B. Mitchell, Meth
| odist, Chicago.
WOMEN AND THE CHURCH.
! On the preachers part it were base
| ingratitude not to recognize the deVo-
ton of women to every sacred cause
| Our churches are generally manned by
women. The prudent man or business
| with an eye upon eventualities con-
| trives to invest most of his religion In
his wife's name. There is not church
in existence today which would be IN
existence but for the love and yearning
of the woman heart. In the church
her influence is all for good DR..
Charles F. Aked, Baptist, New York.
/ BRAIN COUNTS TODAY.
The emphasis of current thought lies
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man is listed at a higher figure than a
man with fervid Impulses. Brain
counts for a good deal more today
than heart does. It will win more APP
plause and draw a larger salary. Emo
ton we are little afraid of. We are
| cautioned not to let our feelings run
away with US. We want to know that
a conclusion has been reached in cold
blood before we are disposed to submit
our judgment to it. Exuberance is in
| bad odor.-Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst,
Presbyterian, New York
MISCHIEF IS CONTAGIOUS.
Lawlessness breeds disaster. Every
daring reputation of those regulative
principles of social relation which pre-
serve the integrity of the body polite
must eventually issue in the break
ing down of a civilization. Graft,
gambling and political corruption in
the exposures Of which these times are
startling are indicative of a spirit of
mischief in the social order which is
contagious. If there are social wrongs
the shame of the evil must rest ulti-
mately upon the society which allows
its laws to be ignored and it's conven-
lions repudiated.-Rev. Ingram E. Bill,
Baptist, Chicago.
IDEALS GROWING HIGHER.
The old ideal when some man hav-
ing rapidly accumulated a fortune by
methods legal perhaps, but with scant
regard for the human values at stake
among the weaker men engaged
in that enterprise, could then
turn and play the role of Lord
Bountiful in snowy charities with
the plaudits of the community
no longer appeals to US. That
day has forever gone. Such a man is
not held up to the admiring youth in
these times for their admiration. Wise
men are insisting in thoroughgoing
fashion that fortunes must be won as
we'll as spent or given away by those
methods which will harmonic with
the higher ideals of life.-Rev. c. R.
Brown, Congregationalist Boston.