The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-11


eth sparingiy shall reap also sparing-
ly." THE liberal soul shall be made
fat"-and the selfish soul shall be
made lean. The law runs in life as in
Scripture. God never lets himself get
into debt to a man. The lavish life is
enlarged Sacrificia1 spirits are made
royal in themselves. The marks of the
Cross on the soul are the marks of the
Lord Jesus. Not without Scripture
warrant has the International Lesson
Committee entitled this study The
Grace of Giving" Giving is a grace.
Wherever the grace of God exists.
there may be found also the CORE
spending grace of giving. There are
no selfish saints: for If they are selfish
they are not saints, having denied the
Lord Jesus.
1.-THE Cosmetic of Character.
Terse Comments on the uniform Pray
err Meeting Topic of the Young Peo-
pies Societies-Christian Endeavor,
etc.-for August 10: True Beauty.
and How To Get It."-Prov S1:10-
81.
Happy is he who can find Tongues
in trees, books in the running brook.
sermons in stones, and good In every
thing" Life is beautiful for such. He
is delivered from smallness and bar
renness of mind. The whole world,
in its greatness and in its minuteness,
!
of nature and truth are revealed to
the seeing eye and the hearing ear.
The best cosmetic is an unselfish
spirit.
The old rendering of a familiar
passage had it that THE Kings
daughter is all beautiful within" In
ner character is ultimately revealed
in outward seeming.
.4l"God Iooketh on the heart" That
the Man looketh on outward appear
ance." against which it is placed In
antithesis. Our generation, with its
clear tendency to foppishness and
frivolity, needs to think less of ap-
pearance, and more of reality. Char
acter is the only comeliness that
counts. A sense of life lived for Gods
eye, truth in the inward parts" lie
more to be cultivated than any out
ward adjoining. In a word, the true
gauge of life is not mans opinion but
Gods favor.
How goodness heightens beauty
Hannah More.
beauty is twice strong.-Richard Bur-
ton.
Our dark days teach US the beauty
of our bright days. We would sell
dom thank God for our special mer-
cies were some of them not with
drawn occasionally for a season.
Life does not attain its highest end
until it is lived in fellowship with
Him who is life's beginning.
"ReautifuI faces are those that wear
The light of a pleasant spirit there;
1t matters not whether dark or fair
A life lived with God is a beautiful
and a peaceful life. The old, old
question, Where can rest be found ?'
is answered in the presence of God
Perfect, perfect peace, is the peculiar
possession of those who have found
pardon and protection with the Lord
Just as all the pictures that have ever
been painted, and all the poems. and
all the written or spoken descriptions
cannot make plain the beauty of q
sunset. so no human words can reveal
the sweet tranquility which Is the
precious possession of those who walk
with the Lord.
| The beauty seen is partly in hin,
who sees it.-Boyee.
To chasten ones speech, to elevate
ones thinking, to enrich ones vo.
| cabulary, and to stimulate ones ideals
! poetry should be a part of ones daily
| intellectual food. He who lives with
| the poets is himself better worth living
within the everydya spheres of COM
monplace activity.
Smiles and songs are the birthright
| of the saved.
We become beautiful through living
with what is beautiful, just as objects
| become fragrant that remain neal
what is fragrant.-Amos r. Wells.
God pity those who having eyes yet sec
| SO little of the beauty of the earth
| Arthur Wallace Peach.