The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-12

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authoritative utterance Of Jesus. after
He had proclaimed Himself King of all
| the realms of earth and heaven. was
that the "All Power of the Christian
life in the individual is equal to this
| new task He offered an entirely new
dynamic, as well as q new method. 1t
is the life of Christ within that changes
the world without
Our day is fertile in programs and
weak In dynamics. 1t needs for all our
plans OF apelioration and service new
Witty, adequate to the immense tasks
| that await us. What is that dynamic.
| that vitality, except the life of the
everything Christ Himself? So that
with His commission, goes His equip
ment. 10. am with you all the days."
Christ asks His disciples to do nothing
| that He does not offer to help them
| to do.
When the Battle Flags Are Furled.
To the conviction that religion is our
neeo above all needs, the war is turn
ing the worlds sobered thought. A
new generation of humble minded
Christian disciples are called for Put
ting away all our time-worn arrogance
and pride OF intellect. we are to seek to
Know the mind of Christ for our day.
The world at present, as perhaps. never
before. wants to live up to Christ's pro-
gram All other plans have collapsed
IN the present unparalleled catastrophe.
That program is clear. 1t calls for a
whole world permanently at peace. 1t
would furl all battle flags, by teaching
men in the school of Christ sincerely to
| love one another 1t would rule among
the nations. by substituting for the di-
plomacy OF selfishness the new diplo-
macy of brotherhood. The law of ma
tons would be the law which Christ
laid down for individuals, that life is a
serving and loving. The statecraft of
unselfishness should take its place on
the thrones of the world.
Peace will come on earth because
of the men of good will. The BROTH
er spirit, which is the kingdom mind,
and sometimes called the foreign
missionary enterprise, will bring about
new mastery of individual lives by
Jesus Christ. Whoever promotes that
consummation is helping to prepare
the new world order which Jesus pre-
scr1bed after His resurrection and be-
fore His ascension.
Thoughts as Goads.
Terse Comments on the Uniform
Peoples Societies Christian En-
deavor, etc.-for Dec 13-"Gems
From My Reading" Prov. 2:1-12.
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
goads." says the writer of Eccie-
siastics They spur one forward in
LIES journey. There is often more
vital stimulus in IN epigram than in
a volume. So this weeks service of
be uncommonly helpful, with its ia
vOrlte quotations from many writer's
Obviously, each participant must treat
the theme from the standpoint of per-
sona1 taste, and do the same in this
column.
One of the abiding words upon
prayer that have helped me is Phillips
Brooks Prayer is not a conquering
of Gods reluctance, but laying hold
of Gods. Willingness
Like beacon or a bugle call il
Emerson's geat word to the young.
so night is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man;
When Duty whispers low Thou must
The Youth replies I can""
Then to side with Trr h is noble when we
share her wretched crust,
Ere her her cause bring fame and profit. and
IT'S prosperous to be just:
, Then it is the brave man chooses, while
the coward stands aside,
Doubling in his abject spirit, till his Lord
Is crucified.
The old Hebrew prophet finds a
| straight way to our hearts with
message of highest comfort, when he
cries, prefiguring the suffering sa-
viour. He was despised. and rejected
Of men; a man of sorrows, and ac-
quainted with grief: and as one from
whom men hide their face he was de-
spised; and we esteemed him not.
| Surely he hath borne our griefs.
and carried our sorrows: yet we did
| esteem him stricken, smftten of God.
and afflicted. But he was wounded
for our transgressions, he was bruised
for our iniquities, the chastisement of
our peace was upon him: and with his
stripes We are healed"
Two quotations on life are priced:
one from the late William E. Russell.
governor of Massachusetts,, There is
one thing better than making liv-
other is of unknown origin: "A mans
life consists of the number of things
to which he is alive"
When you get into tight place.
and everything goes against you till
it seems as If you could not hold on
a minute longer, never give up then,
for that's just the place and time that
the tide'n turn.-Harriet Beecher
| Stowe.
/ A great word which helps keep the
avenues of sympathy and democracy
wide open is the familiar. II am a
man, and nothing that is human is
foreign to me-
4 marsn-hen secretly builds on the
watery sod.
Behold 1 will build me a nest on the
greatness of God.
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