The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-14
BIBLE STUDY,

With the opening of our publc SCHOOLS
| the interest in the living things renews
| itself year after year. For the young peo-
| pie there is a decided plan and purpose,
but for some of u.s. who need it, too, as
we struggle along to keep our homes ana
families up to the standard we feel they
must be, there is no popular one thing
outlined for to do. So year after yea
it comes to me to set forth the idea o.
special work for women and urge them TO
! take up a study of the Bible, and am
sure it is the most helpful one thing 10
do for either young or older women
Most people mean to put their lives IN
lines that will make for the best things
but so many do not seem to be able 10
put first things first
The needs we have are in a general way,
much the same, but the methods of work
ing out are very different. Socially 4,
Spiritually, Physically these are the three
lines toward which every effort is made
for mans growth. The development OF
yone to the exclusion of the other two.
gives US people of no practical use to the
world and it seems to me mans worth
to humanity ought to be his only excuse
for living.
A woman who spends her life in dress,
parties and a round of social duties may
make herself beautiful ard attractive
and interesting and be admired by lin
tied circle of friends, but whom does sne
help to make strong for the real hard
places by her example of wasted time and
careless Indifference to the awful need OF
real interest in the living things about
her. The woman who spends her whole
time thinking how she may preserve her
splendid form, her beautiful hands by
plenty of rest and no work is no grain of
encouragement to thing on earth. The
woman who is "divinely spiritual
worse than all the rest Her very good
ness makes most of want to be bad
just in contrast. Now do want to
put INTO our lives that which will help US
keep ourselves thinking along the pest
lines and doing the best things. and L
claim for the Bible Study the honor of the
best thing. l know the word says
many things to different people but L
want 1t to say. not Il belong to your Sun
day life" which to me seems such a farce.
but, Here's where 1 can find out how to
manage my life between the Sabbath
Days The town is going to be full of
Bible Glasses this year and nothing in the
world would do so much for the individuaI
as an earnest try out in some one OF
them We take up Paul, thirty lessons.
and there is no better place to begin.
Don't you think you ought to set apart
the time to put the Bible into your life
this year All the minutes of all the
days of every week of all the years for 50
many OF us are spent for our physica.
life and not bit of time set apart for
our spiritual life. Sunday is cut out for
the rest, the six hard week DAYS work
make necessary-and yet we say we are
Christians and we love Jesus Christ. 1
seldom when we think of Him so little
Daily we declare by very living ac-
Invites our failure to be the Christians
we might be if we only gave a little time
and thought to our inner lives No mat
ter now full the six days are thew would
be made richer and fuller and better by
somehow on His day in some special way
So often are we too well satisfied with
ourselves and feel when we do our own
work we should be excused from every
thing else 1t is a wonderful privilege 70
be able to have have ones family life
clear and clean from prying eyes and
gossiping tongues, and scores of evils
that come where servants must need be
and doing my work is the weakest ex-
cuse 1 know, for neglecting to do some
other things that somebody must do IL
this old word is ever to see Christian
ideals at the front. There Just is no ex-
cuse in the world that can keen a man
or woman from doing the thing he really
wants to do. If any woman who reads
these lines truly believes the Bible Study
would help her attain more early .her
ideal and wants to try and prove it the
way will open. and she can do it, and the
first blessing will come with the deterrni-
nation Il will" The Jordan waters never
abated until JoShuas men stepped into
them, and soon they were on the other
bank and new life for Israel began.
The following lines from the pen of d.
Bailey of Denver are quite descriptive:
There is a number of us creep into thu.
world to eat and sleep
And know no reason why we were born
but only to consume the corn
Devour the cattle, flesh and fish, and
leave behind an empty dish.
And If our tom bstones when we die bent
taught to flatter
And to lie? There's nothing better can be
said. than that he's
Eat up all his bread, drunk up his drink
and gone to bed.