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The next statement is more compre-
hensively given by st. Matthew. IF
any man sue thee at the law and take
away thy coat. withhold not thy cloak
also" The follower of Jesus may flee
from an adversary, or he may resist
him to the extent of proper expostula-
ton, but he is to be thoroughly re-
sponsiye to all government; ii the
court decides that his coat and his
cloak shall both be taken from him,
he shall unmurmuringly submit, even
though he realize that such a proceed
ure would be unjus- and quite at vari-
ance with the Divine regulation. Saint
Paul as we'll as Jesus used argument
in his own defense, not only with the
mobs, but also before judges; but they
resisted the law-never.
''Give to everyone that asketh of
thee, and of him that taketh away thy
goods ask them not again. The
broadest Interpretation we could con-
sistently give to this would be-Be
tender hearted, err on the side of too
great generosity rather than to be
hard hearted, selfish. The Lord could
not have meant us to take His words
with absolute literalness; as for in
stance, Give a child razor if it cries
for it; or, Give money to the dissi-
pated, that they MAJ injure themselves
still NOR. The spirit of sound mind
forbids that we should understand the
Master to teach that we should do any
thing for another that would be really
to his injury. LAS yc would that man
should do unto you, do We also to them
likewise Very evidently our Lord
was setting up His teachings in con-
trast with the maxirns of the Phari-
sees, holiness people of that day To
love another because he loved u.s. or
to give to another in the hope that he
would equally befriend US, would have
nothing creditable in it.
MercifuI to Obtain Mercy.
The world during Messiah's King
dom will be under instruction and les
sons, which will include mercy, and an
assurance to the willing and obedient
of perfection by the close of the King
dom. But the church class, now call
ed out, Will have NJ such long period
for their character development, and
since they will not attain that perfec-
ton here but will require Divine
mercy, through the imputation of
Christ's merit to cover their blemishes
therefore in order to develop His saints
in generosity and forgiveness, the Lord
has agreed that He will be merciful
to them IN proportion as they will be
merciful to others. What a wondrous
reward and what wondrous incen-
tive!
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Todays study is from st. Lukes ac-
count of the Sermon on the Mount.
1t does not profess to be a regulation
for the world, but applies to saints-to
those who have conSecrated their lives
fully to follow in the footsteps of Jesus
to suffer with Him that they may also
reign with Him. Even these may not
be able to live up to every feature of
the Masters instructions, because of
weakness in their fallen flesh. We must
take the Masters words addressed to
the faithful as representing the full,
perfect standard. 1t is for each disciple
to recognize this supreme standard and
to gauge his thoughts and words and
doings thereby.
AS for others than Gods people. He
does not speak to them at all, except
to tell them that they are sinners I'M
der the sentence of death, but that He
has made provision for their reconcilia-
ton through the blood of the cross,
and that whether they become disciples
of Christ, or not under the call to
Brideship, nevertheless their words and
conduct in the present life will all adj
vantage or disadvantage them in the life
to come. In this secondary way all
mankind aside from the church, the
consecrated-may be measurably en-
lightened by the Masters teachings III
this lesson.
The path of love is, as Jesus de-
marrow way" difficult is the way of
life now OPEN Only the sanity few
will be willing to walk there, and only
these will gain the great Prize, eth :
pearl of great price, joint heirship in
Messiah's Kingdom. Hearkeni Do not
merely sobserve the Golden Rule toward
your enemies. but love them, and ''do
good to them that hate you"
The Masters expression. Unto him
that smotheth thee on the one cheek Of
fer also the other, is to be taken as
ingnifying simply, Do not render evil for
evil, even though he srnite thee on the
other cheek also. Our Lord Himself
when smitten, according to the report,
did not invite the shifting of the other
cheek, but defended Himself to the ex-
tent of criticising the evil deed. But
if He had been smitten on the other
cheek also, let us not for a moment
think that He would have resisted in
the sense of rendering blow for blow.
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the children have one common nature
of flesh and blood. He also in like
manner partoook of these; in order that
by means of His death He might van
quish him that hath the power of
death. (Hebrews ii, II. See also
Hebrews ii, 6, 4. 81 From these Scrip
lures it is apparent that the Lord
Jesus left His spiritual nature and
Christ Jesus. who gave Himself ran
som for ALL" At His resurrection He
received the Divine nature and honor
and glory as a reward for His obedience
to the Fathers will even unto death.
Nature is simply organism, and varies
according to the form or quality of the
organism. The element of life is al
ways the same.
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Bible study XXX.

Text: Mt. %: NIX 10; I-u. u, "A; 10. 20, 81
Questions from the four gospels.
!. What request did James and John
make of Jesus?
2 What did one named Zacchaeus do?
3. Who anointed Jesus in the house OF
Simon the leper?
4. When did Jesus enter Jerusalem In
triumph?
6. Who cast into the treasury the most
of all?
4 What mental service did Jesus per
form for the disciples?
g. Which disciple said he would lay
down his life for Jesus?
9. What did Jesus foreten Peter?
IL. When did Jesus say the Holy Spirit
branches?
10. When did Jesus say the Holy Spirit
would be sent?
II. Who are included IN Jesus 1nterceS-
sorry prayer?
1S. Who betrayed Jesus. and how?
IA. For what was Jesus condemned by
the Jews?
Is. Did plate want to cruelty Jesus?
16. To whom did plate send the Christ
II. Whom did the Jews choose instead
of Jesus?
10. Where was Jesus crucified?
At what hour of the day did the cruel
Twelve views of the Cross of Jesus
/. The Soldiers saw criminal with sov-
row.
OOAAOAeNONOA ffAN--
sorrow.
8. The Mother saw a with anguish.
A. The Disciples saw blighted hopes
with perp1eXity.
5. The first Thief saw a malefactor
with hardness.
s. The second Thief saw a king with
penitence.
T. The Centurion saw divinity with con-
viction.
s. The Priests saw an impostor with
nockery.
9. The Angels saw love with wonder.
10. The Devil saw the seed of the
woman with dismay.
II. Jehovah saw obedience with affec-
ton.
u. The Passers-by saw nothing with
indifference.
Lesson XxXII outline is a Review of
Parts VIII and TX. The text to read be-
gins with Mt. q, Nix. II, Lu. 10, 10. u,
and finishes each gospel.
On Sunday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock
vesper services at the Y. w. c. A. L viii
take up the subject Saints and Angels
in pictures. 1t will interest all who care
for study of pictures.
MRS. c. F. MENNINGER.
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! IzIzE6iH(aagMReHEEs.

what to make of Jesus. He played
havoc with traditions. His initiative
broke over many ancient barriers. He
was a new sort of man. Because they
could not understand this Original, and
because they thought he menaced the
accepted order, the Jews answered His
mex plicable Personality in the wholly
unoriginal fashion Of putting Him out
of the Wav.
The purpose to be ones self, ones
best self, in life and in labor, is the
sure route to initiative.
Carey wrote a good prescription for
initiative when he said Expect great
things from God; attempt great things
for God" A Christians most advanced
purposes for himself are short of God 5
possibilities for him.
Christian work today is in an era of
adjustment. The old ways and forms
are passing. Now how to express the
old faith and the old mission in the
speech and methods of our time is the
perplexity. The gospel has not changed
and the fundamental need of man has
not changed. But the means of pre-
senting and adapting the one to the
other have changed. The new pioneers
will be the men who can speak the
eternal truth in the language of today.
The message must be conveyed through
mems midland here is a field for the
initiative of the most resourceful
Christian.
Broadway has seen the gospel
prea ched on illuminated billboards and
Broadway has talked. New York City
was set to discussing religion, as it has
not done for many years, by the Men
and Religion advertisements on bill
boards and in newspapers. Some church
folk have thought the methods undig-
nified. They confuse tradition with
dignity.
The modern prophets "Ho yer is the
display advertisement. Thus is over.
come that formidable barrier of utter
indifference which is the first great OBJ
stacle to getting a hearing for the gos-
pei. New and ever-newer ways of ar
resting the careless worlds attention to
the things of eternal import must be
devised by all who have a zeal for the
eternally contemporaneous kingdom of
heaven.
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assistant secretary of the Kansas State
Sunday School association, will speak
tomorrow at both the morning and
evening services. The young mems
chorus will sing in the evening. Cele-
bration of MotherS' day.
First Unitarian church. 912 Topeka
avenue, Rev. J. H. Jones, pastor. Serv-
ice II a. m. Sermon by the pastor.
First u. B. church. The pastor, o.
I. Deever, will preach morning and
evening. Subject at IL a. M, Need
for Workers." Subject at p. m,
Mother the Queen of the Home"
Church of the Coco Shepherd. Epls-
copal, corner of Laurent and Quincy
streets, North Topeka. Morning serV-
ice and sermon at IL o'clock. Evening
service and sermon at, 8 O'Clock. Sun
day school at 10 a. m.
Evangelical association, Fourth and
Monroe streets. Services by the pastor
both morning and evening. Morning
theme, Law of Cod Evening theme.
THE Deceitful Way" ]. X. Young.
paste
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Preaching at IL a. m. by the pastor,
Geo. A. Marvel; Epworth league an
niversary service at p. m. with in
stallation of the new officers. Special
music at both services.
First Church of Christ Scientist,
corner Huntoon and Polk streets. Ser
vices at IL a. m. Subject Adam and
Fallen Man. Sunday evening service
at o'clock.
Spiritualist meeting in Lincoln Post
hall, Sunday May II at p. m. Rev.
Edna Mccarthy will speak on sub
ject given by the audience, also give
messages.
First Christian church Topeka ave-
nue., betwene Sixth and Seventh
streets. Communion and preaching
IL a. m. Evening sermon d. M
Second church of Christ Scientist
corner of Harrison and Sixth streets
at II a. m. Subject, Adam and Fall
en- Man..
Westminster church, Rev. Ralph
Ward. pastor. Mr.. W. H. Rockefeller,
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CHURCH NOTICES.

First Presbyterian church, Harrison
street, Rev. Stephen S. Estey, D. D.,
pastor. Morning service at IL a. M,
sermon by DR.. Culbertson, of Emporia.
The evening service will be in observ-
ance of Mothers Day." subject, 1.-THE
Cost of a Home" The pastor will
preach.
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Mount Olive NJ. z. church, corner OF
Twelfth and Buchanan streets, Rev. G..
w. H. Hopewell, pastor. Preaching
1O:45 a. M, theme, 1.-The F1ourishing
Palm Tree Christians preaching 7:45
D. m, theme, THE Spiritual Climate"
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Kansas Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church, John w. Waldron, pastor.
Morning worship at II a. m, sermon
by the Rev. J. w. Johnston, S. T. ID.
Special service for the young people
at D. M, anniversary service of the
Epworth League. Sermon by the pas
tor, subject, 1.-The Efficient Lacquer, or
the D. Quartet"
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SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.

I am more afraid of deserving criti-
cism than of receiving it. Gladstone.
x X X
No man can be wholly uneducated
who really knows the Bible, nor can
anyone be considered a truly educated
man who is ignorant of it.
President Schurman.
X X
Dear is my friend-yet from my foe, as
from my friend, comes good;
My friend shows what can do, and my
foe what should. Schiller.
Ali if men but knew in what small
dwelling Joy can live, and how little it
costs to furnish it. -Souvestre.
X 4
The only shots that count are those
that hit. Theodore Roosevelt.
= X
I know not where his islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
only know 1 cannot drift
Beyond his love and care.
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RY WILLIAM r. ELLIS.

Wise in a deep knowledge of human
nature was the old Hebrew sage who
wrote, "An we like sheep have gone
astray." That phrase is to be accented
on the first four words. 1t did not
take a philosopher to perceive the
straying tendency in man; the signif1-
cant observation is that they stray just
like sheep. Everybody knows how that
is; especially in the pastoral east is
the figure clear. One adventurous sheer
usually an old ram-goes out OF
bounds, and after him follows the whole
flock The existence of the bell-wether
in this country, is based upon know
ledge of this tendency to follow a lead
err unreasoningly. independence is not
a characteristic of sheep, nor of men.
We go astray sheep-fashion. Stupid fol-
lowing of some leader is the character
istic of most SHINING. Not many per-
sons deliberately decide upon a course
of sin and folly. Not reason and initi-
ative but blind trailing after some
body else who in turn is following
another, leads us into wrong-doing. If
there were more personality in people
there would be less evil
He who dares to think for himself
will also have to think for many other
persons.
There are more persons worship
ping at the shrine of a modern idol
called Conventionality than ever wor-
shipped Dagon or Ashcroft
The person with courage enough tic
be himself may be assured that he has
courage sufficient for all the other ext
gencieS of life.
Everybody wants to be different;
few of US really ever are Even the
picturesque but pathetic crew who at
feet curious garb and absurd tonSorial
arrangements, and pursue occult rel1g-
ions, and fantastic fads in faiths, and
proclaim themselves in rebellion against
the accepted order, are members of a
large, clearly defined and Wel-labelled
group. Their very unconventionalism Ia
conventional. This sort of thing is quite
different from real independence and
initiative. The severe test of intellect
ual liberty and courage is ability TO
conform to the major usages of the
sphere of life we occupy, while at the
same time maintaining personality in
the realm of the spirit.
There are some men and women VINO
live, like the pioneers of the American
west, just a few marches beyond the
sound of the steam whistle They are
the breakers of new paths, the Abra-
hams of the world; and to them man
kind is forever in debt. Their mood is
expressed by Kipling's Explorer:
Till a voice, as bad as Conscience.
rang interminable changes
On one everlasting Whisper day. and
night reDeated-so:
Something hidden. Go and find 1t.
Go and look behind the Ranges
Something lost behind the Ranges.
Lost and waiting for you. Coz"
The unconventionality of Christ is
hard for us to realize who live in a
land dotted with church spires. and
amid civilization which boasts itself
as Christian. Jesus was a man ahead
of His times. Sift down the actual
human, social, political ecclesiastical
reasons for His crucifxion and they
some very near to being comprehended-
ed within the single word. '-unconven-
tionality.' The world did not know
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The First Methodist Episcopal church.
The pastor, Rev. F. L. Loveland, D. D.,
will preach morning and evening. Morn
ing at IL O'Clock, theme, 1.-The Mission
of the Master" evening at o'clock,
the second in the series of talks on
Good People with Bad Habits sub
ject, 1.-The Sin of Ingratitude.'
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Grace cathedral, corner Eighth ave-
nue. and Polk street. The Very Rev.
j. P. de B. Kaye. dean. Holy COM
munion 1870 a. m Morning service
and sermon IL a. M; choral evensong
and address at 5 o'clock p. m.
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The Teacher and His New Word
Inc International Sunday School Les
son for Kay II Is 'sThe Law of Low. :
Luke s: 27-3S. Romans 10: $40.
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! uttermost. AS a certain modern poem
expresses it:
Humanity is one; no weakest brother
Can fall or falter. sin or suffer woe
But that the suffering reacheth every
Other.
And all the world with him dotn
fainter grow.
Humanity is one: who thinks to con-
Quer
BY crushing down a weaker in the
Knows not that in his own unreason-
ing raGcor
He beateth down the steps that lead
to day.
Humanity is one: thou that Ger
contest,
o thou be strong for those who are
but weak:
So shall a Thousand triumph where
thou WinneSt.
And many find what few know how
to seek
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ST. Johns Evangelical Lutheran
church, Second and Van Buren, streets,
P. D. Mueller, pastor. German services
1880 a. m. English services 1880 p. m.
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The Souls Who Dare.

Terse Comments for May II, 1.-The
Value of Initiative" II Kings ID:
14-1a.
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GOd

God . has made apostles and
saints out of men and women that the
world would have thrown away as rub
IRISH; Peter, the weak and hayward !;
Mary Magdalen, the defiled; Zaccheus,
the worldly; Thomas, the respondent;
Paul, the per -ccutor and b1asphemer.
What God could do in the first century
he can do, he is doing, today.
Henry Van Dyke.
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The First Baptist church. Robert Cor
don, pastor. Morning service IL, ser
mon subject, 1.-The Fight of Faith;
evening service 8, sermon subject, THE
Shame of the City"
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The Setting of the Golden Rule.

A working basis for the practice of
the high teachings OF Jesus is to be
round N the familiar words of what
common opinion calls the Golden
Rule which we find embedded like a
Jewel in the center of these teachings.
Now, the Golden Rule is not the high
est law-not nearly so lofty as some
of the teachings which surround it. He
who goes all the way with Christ viii
find himself far beyond the reign of the
Golden Rule, which only makes self the
standard.
The law of love simply puts self out
of the question. 1t is not a reciprocity
in benevolence, but magnanimity; not
bargaining but bounty. Jesus bids US
give and expect no return, except the
ultimate return which in the long run
is melted out to the unselfiSh. This is
the principle of which we are feebly
getting hold. A world of good people
becomes a good world. The law OF IovN
given sway becomes the most practi-
cable CO laws.
The Family Likeness.
Some gentle, loving, uHwordly per-
sons make us think of God the minute
we see their faces. Their presence
Thus Jesus bids His friends show the
likeness OF the Father, BE yet
as your Father Again, I'VE shall be
the children of the Highest"
Thus the disciple is to prove his
birthright. Even as the family like
ness appears in sons and daughters,
so that when we see a child we think
of the parent. The Christian is so to
pour out his life in love and mercy
and forgiveness that all men will he
reminded of the love and mercy and
forgiveness of the Father in Heaven.
Impossible these standards have
often been called. but they are the
Ia he I'm
to it's present level, and that are still
making it liker every day to the king
dom OF heaven, where love holds abso-
lutte sway.
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Church of Christ. corner Fifth and
Western avenue. Evangelist John t.
Kinds will preach both morning and
evening. The morning theme will be:
1.-THE Nrrow or Broad Way-Which? ?"
Evening theme: 1.-The Baptism of the
Holy Spirit A cordial invitation to
all.
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Walnut Grove Methodist church, cor
ner Sixteenth and Harrison, c. B. Zook,
pastor Morning worship IL a. m, SER
mon theme. 1.-THE Methodists; in the
Field, at Work" Evening service will
be in honor of Mothers Day.
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LOVING OUR NEIoHRoRs.

Luke vi, 7-ss; Romans xiii, s-1o-Ma,
II.
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He who dares to think for himself
will also have to think for many other
persons.
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There are more persons worship
ping at the shrine of a modern idol
called Conventionality than ever wor-
shipped Dagon or Ashcroft.
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Memorial services of little Vernice
Lucille Nickel, the one year old child Of
Mr.. and Mrs. V. G. Nickel, will be held
at the City Mission, 80 Kansas avenue.
Rev. Koser of Oakland and Rev. Crum-
ley of Parkdale, will have charge of the
service.
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The person with courage enough TIC
be himself may be assured that he has
courage sufficient for all the other ext
gencies of life.
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Second United Brethren church, j
Lewis, pastor. Divine service morning
and evening. Young Peoples anniver-
sary at D. m.
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German Methodist Episcopal church,
corner Tyler and West Fifth streets.
Services at 1915 a. m. and at p M,
conducted by the pastor, Jorn Koehler.
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Lowman Memorial Methodist Epis-
copal church, corner 18th and Morris.