The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-26
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First shaking the tree and gathering
J up the fruit which falls to the ground,
and then shaking each branch, and
afterwards each twig of the branch,
and last of all, looking carefully I'M
] der each leaf to see that no fruit re
mains In this way, and in no other
shall we also find the hidden treas
ures that are in the Bible
The charge has sometimes been
made against Christians that they use
! the Bible as an idol. They set it up
as fetch, instead of handling Alright
| the word of truth. The wise words of
! Miles Coverdale in the preface to his
English Bible of 1885 are still applica-
; BILE:
at shall greatly help thee to under
stand Scripture, if thou mark not only
what is spoken or written, but of
whom, and unto whom, with what
words, with what time, where to, what
! intent, with what circumstances, con-
sidering what goeth before and what
| fOlloweth.'
| The existence of the Bible as a book
| for the people is the greatest benefit
| which the human race has ever ex-
| perienced. Every attempt to belittle
| 1t is a crime against humanity.-1m-
| manuel Kant.
| The Bible has been the Magma Carta
of the poor and of the oppressed; the
| Bible is the most democratic book in
! the world. BY the study of what other
! book could children be so much hu-
manized? 1 have been seriously per-
| picked to know by what means the re-
| ligiOuS feeling in mankind which is
the essential basis of conduct, is to be
! kept up without use of the Bible
! Thomas Huxley.
The period of the Reformation
was a judgment day for Europe, when
all the nations were presented with
an open Bible and all emancipation
| of heart and intellect which an open
Bible fnvolVes.-Thomas Carlyle.
The Bible thoroughly understood is
a literature of itself-the rarest and
| richest in all departments of thought
or imag MISUNDERSTANDING H. Froude.
Anybody who is interested in help
ing people to understand the Bible
is a patriot.-Justice David Brewer.
If we abide by the principles
taught in the Bible the country will
go on prospecting and to prosper; but
if we and our posterity neglect it's
instructions and authority, no man
can tell how sudden a catastrophe
may overWhelm US and bury all our
glory in profound obscurity.-Daniel
Webster.
1t is supremacy, not precedence
that we ask for the Bible. 1t is con-
traSt, as well as resem blance. that
we must feel compelled to insist on.
The Bible is stamped with specially
of origin and an Unreasonable dis
lance separates it from all competi-
tors-William E. Gladstone.
The most original book in the world
is the Bible Shakespeare, the first
est in whom the moral is not the
predominating element leans on the
Bible; his poetry presupposes it.
r. w. Emerson.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
Though the past is irrevocable, it
is not 1rrepara ble.-F. B. Meyer.
If religion has any reality, it is the
most important thing with which hui
man society can concern itself.
Christian Register.
Who steadfastly pursues his goal
Despite what winds prevail.
Nor loses courage from his soul
Can never wholly fail.
Susie NJ. Best.
Luxury and dissipation, soft and
gentle as their approaches are, and
silently they throw their silken
charms about the heart, enslave it
more than the most active and tur-
bulent vices.-Iannah More.
The saddest sight in all the world
is not a grave of the dead, grieVous
as that might be, but it is a grave
of the 1iving-humanity sepulchred
while yet a1ive.-Frances E. Willard.
1t is comely fashion to be glad.
Joy is the grace we say to God.-Jean
Ingelow.
soever things are honorable, whatso-
things are pure, whatsoever things
are of good report, if there be any
virtue, if there be any praise
think these things.-Paul.
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE,
HATED WITHOUT A CAUSE.
Genesis 37-April %.
Love envieth not."-1 Corinthians
1874.
The story of Joseph and his brethren,
beautiful in it's simplicity, is deeply
instructive. One lesson il teaches is
the unwisdom of a parent in showing
too great preference for one child. and
n spirit of envy. Another lesson is
the unwisdom of telling even our
dreams to unsympathetic cars; as when
Joseph told his dreams to his breth-
rem.
JOSeDh was not TO he blaYned for orf