The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15
The Helpers of Life.

Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
deavor, etc.-for September It:
Little Chances to Help -Exod.
17:S-13.
If life were one single act of hero
ism, most of us could screw our cour-
age up, to the occasion. What tests
US to the breaking point, however, is
the simple fact that life is made up
of a succession of commonplace days,
each with hundred petty calls upon
our character and service. Almost
anybody will jump into the water to
save a drowning child: but when it
it comes to being patient with that
child every day, and to answering its
questions and meeting it's needs help
fully. in a way designed to shape it's
life nobly, we somehow cannot always
rise to the occasion. Given a choice
between death and a denial of Christ,
such as has lately come to the Armen-
ians, and most of us would unhesitat-
ingly choose death. When called up
on, however, to show loyalty to him
by daily service and sacrifice, by help
fulness and holiness, we find the test
hard. Still the truth abides, to be
faced by everybody, that as the years
are composed of months and the
months of weeks and the weeks of
days and the days of hours and the
hours of minutes, so life consists of
little decisions, little self-denials, little
devotions, little deeds of kindness
little crosses and little conquests-
glorified, it may be, by the spirit of
Jesus, VINO went about doing good"
The world has greater need for
Christians who will do little acts of
helpfulness than it has for great theo-
logians or ecclesiastes.
Not many can be like Christ on the
cross, but everybody can be like Him
in pleasing little children and in saving
comforting words to the DISCOURAGED
opportunity.
Just as low motive may drag the
| noblest enterprise down into the mire.
so nigh motive will exalt the most
mental task to the stars-John Henry
| Strong.
We i've in deeds, not years; in thoughts,
In feelings, not in figures on dial.
we snouid count time by heartthrobs.
Who thinks most, feels the nohles+ ao..
the best s'' ATS
And he whose heart beats quickest lives
Lives in one hour more than in years do
some w
Whose s, fat blood blood sleeps as it slips along
Life is but means to an end-thst end
beglnnminS means and end to all things
'". Bailey.
Ihe ordinary relations of life. wit
their duties and responsibilities. wit h
their trials and sorrows and lows. are
the divinely appointed environment to
develop character and to train dis
ciples into robust vigor of life'-Hueb
Black.
A little lift may, like Zaccbeus'
tree, raise life to a new glimpse of
Christ.
With all it's cunning devices and
wonderful wisdom. this old world has
not yet invented any scale or measure
| that will determine what is great
and what is little in the things of hu-
man life. OF that we are sure. The
wise Book makes clear that in the
surprising experience of heaven we
shall find the last first, and the first
last When Jesus wanted to give ere
dentials. for admission into his re-
wards it was the cup of cold water to
little ones, the visit to the sick and
to the prisoner, that merfted his I'm
asmuch-" We simply do not know
what service is great and what Is
small Here is preacher whose ser
mons ring thru the land and all men
the unknown mother. whose self-sac-
rif.ce and conservation made him
what he is. Only heaven can tell what
deeds are small and what are great
So we are to do all things as unto the
Lord. leaving estimates and rewards
to Him
Sing a song of cheerfulhess,
| No matter what you meet;
Bring a smiling presence
To every friend you greet;
Confident in marching,
Hopeful in retreat;
Singing songs of cheerfulness