The Topeka state journal., 1911-08-12

All intemperance is nothing but
evil There is certain to be run
away and wreck whenever a person
loosens the reins of appetite.
At the root of all the worlds woes
is sure to be found some form of in
temperance.
tself-reverence. knowledge, self
These three alone
/ Lead life to sovereign power"
We make much of the loss of
friends and fortune that follows in
temperance in drinking. Yet these
are only a minor trouble. The real
loss, and the loss that makes the actu-
al pauper and which is worse than
all other calamities, is the loss of
Self-respect. Esau's bargain was no
BILE beside that Of the person who
sells his self-respect for a draught of
pleasure.
Lookout - the MAJ wro is forever
looking cut for number one.
Intemperance is altogether weak
ness; If in any department of life we
allow our inclination or our appetite
to get beyond our control then there
I is a corresponding loss Of strength in
our soul. We have power only when
we keep our lower selves in complete
subjection to our spiritual natures.
The true man who does wen what
he undertakes cannot be kept down by
anybody but himself
Everybody owes his world, not only
his present powers, but also all that
he may make of those powers.
Intemperance means the enthrone-
ment of self1shness. The drunkard is
pre-eminently selfish. F or a sensual
qualification he ignores the claims of
his own manhood and the right of hts
fellows. Drunkenness is an example
of complete and unreasoning selfish
ness.
A wise writer has said. 1--WE have
bodies; we are souls"
The athlete knows that If he would
have a strong and tempered body he
must abstain from drunkenness and
gluttony. How can we expect to have
proper bodies much less sweet and
even tempered souls, If we let them
run riot in the excesses of eating and
drinking?
Whoever filings the reins of his life
into the hands of passion, puts an un-
trained slave into the kings seat
where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
By some means we must set up the
doctrine that, first and last, whatever
hauls down the colors Of q human
soul is treason to the universe--Anon.
If we were charged so much head
for cafc C01 \
drum before the hawthorns came in
flower, what a work we should make
about their beauty Robert Louis
Stevenson.
Suffice it that he never brought
His conscience to the public mart
But lived himself the truth he taught,
White-souled, clean-handed, pure of
heart.
Whittier.
Meditation is attention with inten-
tion.-D. M. stearns.
We're men to keep Christ's COM
mandment to love. there's hardly any
form of human misery that would not
be ended in two geperations.-Ian
Maclaren.
Think truly and thy thought
Shall the worlds famine feed:
Speak truly. and thy word
Shall be a fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life
Shall be a great and noble creed.
Saint Francis Xavier the noble Je-
suit missionary, said that in the con-
fessional men had confessed to him
all sins that he knew ard some that
he had never imagined, but none had
ever of his own accord confessed that
he was coVetous.-RauSche busch
Bible Lessons for Murderers.
BY an order issued by Justice MGR
schauser in Poughkeepsie the Protes-
tant prisoners in Sing Sing prison
awaiting execution will heraaffer he