The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
(By William T. EIIis.)

(By William r IIIlis.)
Burning lives are beacon lives. They
light the way home for storm stres~ ed
! wanderers. They illuminate the prob
lem for living for all who surround
them. They are signal fires of the
! higher life. What matter if sometimes
| the fire consumes as it burns, so long
as the beacon shines? The exhorta-
| ton of the apostle. stir into flame the
gift that is in thee is a summons
| to zeal in service.
| Zeal that is net raj is Ike a painted
flame, giving neither heat nor light
Now let me burn out for Godv'
! cried Henry Martyr, the great mis-
sionary. There sounds the echo of the
Pauline passion, the Christ passion.
| Great souls are willing to be consumed
in great service. They prize nothing so
much as an opportunity to cry, THE
zeal of Thy house hath eaten me up
Only locomotives with fire under
! their boilers ever pull trains. Only
/ men and women of earnest purpose
! ever accomplish results in the world.
! Zeal is the motive power that prompts
service Given choice between knowl-
edge, the latter is to be chosen; for
while it sometimes blunders it always
i makes things move; and inaction is
deadly blight for an organization or
a life. The best fate that could be-
| fall some fashionable and futile
/ churches would be for few irrepres-
sible. unconventional rescue-mission
| converts to get into their midst. The
| consequences would probably be more
| in accord with the Scriptures than
with the social code!
God save us from dilhtantlSm! me
idle, conceited, know-it-aH looker-on
at life, who is too blase to be deeply
interested in anything, is a nuisance
even at an afternoon tea or in a club
library. 1t is the person who is deep
ly interested in something VINO inter
ests other persons. The enthusiast is
the one who gets results out of life.
Whose goes deepest into whatever is
worth entering at all gets the richest
treasures out of it.
wherever you are, be all there" is
a modern preachers wise advice. That
is a free rendering of BE jealousy
sought in a good matter at all times"
Halfway living and halfway working,
like halfway measures in everything
else, usually spell whole failure.
For myriads of young people Chris
tan Endeavor has put zeal into Chris
tan service. 1t has impaired the en-
thusiasm of the athletic field to the
loftier sphere of Christian activity.
The fresh, buoyant vigor of youth has
gone at the Masters work with ardor.
That very spirit of eagerness has been
one secret of the success of the mod
ern Young Peoples movement. Mo-
mentum has been impaired to religion.
The ZeSt and activity of the societies
have drawn other young people into
the same field of service. The ardent
devotion of youth has proved itself as
valuable a quality in the work of the
kingdom as the deliberative wisdom !,
of the elders.
Some persons who grow delirious
over a victory in college athletics think
it is not good FORM to say amen" in
prayer meeting.
Enthusiasm is the genius of SINGER
ity, and truth accomplishes no vic
tories without it.-Bulwer Lytton.
Let the engineer pull out the throt-
tie and play cards, let the pilot of
steamer in a hurricane immerse him
self in a novel, but let not the watch
man of the Lord be anything but
awake and in dead earnest when all
around immortal souls are in death
grapple with their great enemy
Cyrus d. Foss.
If you are cold Christian you are
in wrong attitude toward Jesus
Christ, away from duty, away from
prayer, away in worldliness, away in
unbellef, indulging in some besetting
The Leader is the Example. Jesus
Christ was SO engrossed in the work
the Father had sent him to do that
He could go without food or sleep.
The mission alone mattered with the
Master He went to His task, unde-
tered by difficulties, with a steadfast
enthusiasm which not even the olive
grove of Gethsemane could chill, and
not even the hill called Calvary could
deter. The zeal of Christ effected the
salvation of the world.
1 wound rather be a convert from
the gutter, uttering a stumbling, I'M
grammatical testimony in a mission
prayer meeting than an accomplished
and affluent Christian afraid to vent
ure into active, self-forgetting service
Tor fear that 1 might make some mis-
take. Better far to burn out with