The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-21
friends of Christ may keep q perpet-
ual Thanksgiving festival.

friends OF Christ may keep q perpet-
ual Thanksgiving festival.
, Grim goodness is half badness.
In the deepest night Of trouble and
sorrow God gives US 80 much to
cease our singing
A praiseful life is best Thanks
giving. When His children are hap
py the Father Is best pleased.
Only the pardoned are at peace:
only the justified are joyous
1t was Maltbfe d. Babcock who
said, The Christian life that is joy
less is discredft to God and a dis
grace to ITSELF" AS a wide circle of
people know. he lived up to that high
was an expression Of his spirituality.
In these ringing verses he declared his
faith:
This is my Fathers world.
0 let me ne'er forget
Ihat though the wrong seems oft SO
God is the ruler yet
This is my Fathers world
The battle is not done.
Jesus who died shall be satisfied.
And earth and Heaven be one.
This is my Fathers world.
Should my heart be ever sad?
The Lord Is King!-let the heavens ring.
God reigns!-let the earth be glad"
or all the services that a Christian
may render the world the simplest.
surest and most constant is q life of
cheerfuiness. Let it not be thought
that cheerfulness il merely a matter
nj 4ny o.
OF grace. The sunniness that shines
farthest is merely irradiated saintli-
ness. The good cheer which stands
all tests Is that which IL born of the
conviction that to be joyous is a
Christian duty and privilege. No eff
fort, OF will Of prayer and of prac-
tice. is too great a price to pay for a
life of goodness, founded in faith in
God
The music Of the spheres, (and the
song Of the CELESTIAL choirs) is not
q complete choir o. praise to the
Creator without the thanksgiving, in
word and in deed. Of men and women
and little children.
Susan Coolidge. whose verse is al
ways as sane as it is sweet, has
sounded summons to everyday
thanksgiving, with the sufficient rea-
Sui Lu0IeIOT0:
The day is long and the day is hard:
we are tired OF the march and Of keep
ing guard;
Or days to live through and a work to
be done;
Tired OF ourselves and Of being alone.
And all the while. did we only see,
We walk in the Lords own company;
We fight. but It's He who nerves our
arm;
He turns the arrows that else might
And out Of the storm He brings a calm.
'And the work that we count so hard to
He makes it easy. for He works too;
And the days that seem long to live are
A bit OF His bright eternities,
And close to our need His helping Is"
A sour-visaged Christian is q walking
heresy.
If we cannot find anything else to
thank God for. We at least can thank
him that we are able to give thanks
for provfdences that are beyond our
present comprehension.
Gladness is the simplest way Of say
ing THANK your to God.
Somebody once wrote a poem in
eulogy of the robin, the bird that
sings in the rain:
For it's easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while. Is the man
When everything goes dead wrong"
Hast thou plenty? Then rejoice:
Rejoice and freely share.
Hast thou scanty store? Fen then
little thou canst spare.
And hast thou only bit or crumb.
A doner yet thou may'st become
Since morsel from thy less or least
For bird or insect maketh feast
Be the portion small or great
The loving, generous heart
Will always find it large enough
To give away part.
From the Norwegian by Emile Poul-