The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21

Childlike trust in God, unquestion-
ing, implicit, expectant, is the highest
wisdom to which mortal can attain.
We are wrong to think that scepticism
| is a sign of great wisdom. That is a
| negative and destructive quality. The
positive virtue of faith, which believes
greatly, is a far higher exercise of the
mind and spirit.
To greatly believe is to be greatly
blessed.
A man who has led busy, useful
life. rising from humblest circumstan-
ces to a position of really great influ-
ence, has kept always as his motto
simple wall card inscribed, Have faith
in God" This hung in his room whel
he had but one room; and it found
place of honor in his library as he adj
vanced in worldly prosperity. All that
there is to be said concerning his sue
cess is to be found in that motto. He
had trusted God greatly; and God has
not disappointed him.
Faith comes by hearing, and hear
ing by the word of God" The way
to get faith IS not merely to wish for
it, and to pray for it; these are in
vain unless one studies the Word of
God. The Bible is a record of the
heroes of faith. Examine their evil
dence, and be convinced. The cloud
chapter of Hebrews speaks, is not
meant, as often interpreted. for the
vast array of beholders, of those who
look upon US from heaven and earth;
the cloud of witnesses are the great
company of testifiers-witnesses to the
excellence of faith--some of whom had
been enumerated in the preceding chap
ter The proposition of the sacred wri-
ter is clear and logical. We are to I'M
dertake the life of faith-he calls it
running a race; therefore let lis exam
Inc the testimony and example of those
who have gone before. BY their in
SEPARATION we shall be fired: from their
experience we may learn how. In times
of fear and doubt and intellectual
stress, let us turn to a study of the
Scriptures for help.
Faith may seem like foly when
it is really highest wisdom
The will to believe is the first step
toward the fact of faith. Lord make
me willing to be made wiling to be-
lleve.' God help our little faith to
become great faith.
Because most of us think only in
small units we miss the sweep and
vastness of the wonder of Christianity.
Survey the whole world at any given
time and you will find communities
where men and women and little
children are dying for the faith which
is called Christianity. At the present
hour the sword of persecution is I'M
sheathed in Korea, in the Balkans,
among the mountains of Kurdistan,
because the Founder of our = faith
walked there during the days of His
flesh. In all these regions. and IN
others not named, the wearers of the
name of Christ are called upon to suf-
fer because they hold the faith for
which uncounted thousands nave died
during the centuries. For no other
one cause have so many persons cheer
fully faced death as for the Christians
belief.
The Christians faith is IN a Pei
son, rather than in a system: Look
ing unto Jesus. the author and finish
er of our faith.
He that will believe only what he
can fully comprehend must have a
very long head or a very short creed.
C. c. Cotton.
Speculations? I have none. 1 am
resting on certainties. I know whom
have believed.-Faraday, on mis-
death bed.
The best sign that man believes
anything is not his repetition of its
formulas but his impregnation with
its spirit.-Philips Brooks.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
Be not forgetful to entertain
strangers, for thereby some have en-
tertained angels unawareS.- Heb.
xiii:2.
1t is good news, worthy of all ac-
ceptation; and yet not too good to
be true.-Matthew Henry.
Look round the habitable world:
how few
Know their own good, or knowing it,
pursue.
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All the beauty of the world. it's but
skin deep.-Ralph Venning.
Rich in saving common sense,
And as the greatest only are,
In his simplicity sublime.
-Tennyson.
Sail on, o Ship of STATED
Sail on, o Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears.
With all its hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate
-Longfellow.
Great men are they who see that
spiritual is stronger than any material /
force; that thoughts rule the world
Emerson.
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