The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-16

/ Save in the death Of Christ my
God:
ALI the vain things that charm me
most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.
We cannot walk the worlds way and
keep company with Christ.
Doing ones duty il the only heroism.
Anything short OF duty il coward1ce-
Beyond 1t one cannot go: yet it ID inn
possible for a person to do more than
his duty. That is why the disclaimer
Of modest heroes SO often and properly
is. Il did only my duty" The persons
who become notable In heroism are
generally those who have always been
notable In their obedience to duty.
Failures are not meant to be final.
They are simply experiments: they
point to a better way Of achieving the
desired end. Probably nobody ever
accomplished anything for mankind
without first having had q dismal ex-
perience with what he thought at the
time to. be failures. Out OF such.
though, comes success. -
Many people thronged near to the
person Of Christ during the days Of
His popularity, but only a few were by
His side at the time OF His rejection.
The first never were truly close to the
real Christ; that was a boon reserved
only for those who were willing to go
with him through all the way that His
footsteps walked. We cannot enjoy
communion, with Christ unless we are
with him the gloomy garden on the
hillside. If we will not have his COM
paniOnship through all experiences, We
cannot have it at all.
Zebedee's son. the fisherman. became
John. the beloved apostle. and one OF
the greatest and tenderest figures OF
all religious history, through his assoc
citation with Jesus. That il a conspicu-
GUS instance Of the abiding truth that
ones life IL largely determined by ones
choice of friends. His great Teacher
made John great.
It is a trustful eye that sees farthest
into the heart Of God. Ways that arc
dark to wisdom are bright with faith
There is no failure for the firm in
which Christ is co-partner.
Christ's standards are good for two
worlds.
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sorrowing. But Gods ways are ways
Of pleasantness, and all his paths are
peace. ~,--
We must be willing to go Christ's
way II we would walk at his side.
The hypocrite is in all walks OF life.
and even in the lower order Of nature
there are receptions which may be
classed as hypocrisy. But 1t Is in re-
ligion that the hypocrite is worst. The
deliberate hypocrite is an odious per
son; and he is also foolish. For At the
root of all his pretending lies the as
sumption that he can deceive every
body. Only a rare genius can do this.
Most hypocrites are rated at the true
value by most OF the people who know
them. But the exceeding folly OF the
hypocrite consists in the delusfon that
he can deceive God. For religion Is
essentially a matter between the ind1-
vidual and his Judge; and II hypocrisy
does not avail with God 1t is a vain
thing. and a reason for punishment.
The hypocrite blunders at the outset,
for he forgets that while man looks
on the outward appearance, God looks
upon the heart. A first factor In the
Christian religion is the all-knowing-
ness of Jehovah. God sees everything.
From him there is nothing hid. Tho
secret pages Of the heart are an open
book to him.
In Gods sight man il only what he
thinketh in his heart.