The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-18

his discipleship. Only surrendered lives
have the SAVIOUR OF salt. God cannot DO
anything with lives that are not COM
pletely made over to him. His pro-
gramme for purifying and preserving
human society Is to leaven 1t with the
salt of Christians who are Christians
before they are anything else.
With that kind Of life as his instru-
ment, nothing Is too hard for Christ.
But with saltless church members. he
can do nothing. If an observer can
not tell any difference between Chris
tians and non-Christians in a COM
munity. then there is sore need of salt
in that vicinity. For salt makes itself
felt: 1t even hurts: but 1t saves.
Tho IAfe That Is Hallowed.
Terse Comments for April 10: The
Conservation of Time" EccL 3:1-S.
By WILLIAM t. ELLIS.
Time is the precious casket which
contains all other jewels. To dedicate
time to the highest uses is to dedicate
everything.
The foolish ones who kill time
really kill life; for time IL the stuff of
which life is made.
The right use of time Is simply the
wise administration of ones life. A
sensible person definitely plans his
hours: they are too precious to be
subjected to the whims OF the current.
We get out Of the days and years what
we put into the hours. Many persons
have become truly educated merely by
the wise use Of odd fragments Of time.
A bit Of poetry or q verso OF Scripture
learned while dressing in the morning;
few foreign words or phrases conned
on the way to work. or between tasks;
q great hnnk road In nQfNhaQ WhiJQ
waiting for meals: a dip into noble
literature at bed time: a studtous eff
fort to secure contact with some nobler
person than ones self every day-by
such simple plans as these life 10 en-
riched and made powerful.
The minutes treasured are worth
more than the hours wasted.
The mad notion that no hour is
profitable unless there Is something
doing in 1t. is indigenous to Ameri-
ca. We are a restless people. Ac-
tivity has been made synonymous
'futurist' picture of Coney Island
a wild whirl Of vivid and discordant
colors-was printed in a recent "Cen-
tury;" and 1t might pass for a pho
tOgraph Of the minds of some of US.
Let us get hold of the truth which
the contemplative Orient holds 80
firmly. that there are better uses Of
time than mere frenzied activity. A.
c. Benson has put the truth well in
his Greed Of Quietness:"-'I have
grown to feel that the ambitions
which we preach and the successes
for which we prepare are very often
nothing but a missing Of the simple
road. a troubled wandering among
thorny bypaths and dark mountains.
have grown to believe that the one
thing worth aiming at il simplicity
OF heart and life: that ones rela-
tons with others should be direct
and not diplomatic: that power leaves
meanness and hardness and GOODNESS
are tho unforgivable sins: that con-
ventionality is the mother OF dreari-
ness; that pleasure exists not in vir-
tue OF material conditions, but in
the joyful heart: that the world is
place; that congonial labor is the
secret Of happiness; and many other
things which seem, as write them
down. to be dull and trite common
places, but are for me tho bright Jew
els which I have found beside the
way
Many business men are coming to
the conclusion that they would ac-
complish more II they attempted less
Life is becoming overcrowded. A
succession Of little things fill the
time that could moro wisely be used
for the performance Of great tasks
and the contemplation Of lofty pur-
poses. To simplify IL to strengthen.
Life IL more than q mere round of
engagements: It IL a conscious en-
joyment and employment Of the spir-
it's highest capacities.
ITO save time is to lepgthen life. :"
When life is realized as q mission.
| time becomes sacred. The sense that
we are Gods servants, bent on his