The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-14
"The strength of Ten"

L
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
Peoples SocietieHChristian En-
! deavor, etc, for July 16: Purity,
Temperance and Strength. Dan.
! 1920
There is beautiful social ideal to-
| ward which all dreamers look. It con-
! ceives of a community wherein men
and women have subjected their lower
nature to the higher, and live for the
great goals of mutual helpfulness and
1 self-imp rovement. Because brother
hood is the standard of that perfect
society, no man sins against himself;
for it is impossible for one member of
! a body to be hurt without loss and
injury to ALL There have been many
attempts to legislate this golden age
into existence, but they always have
failed, and always will fail since only
a new and regnant life principle,
even the i'm parted character of Christ,
in the hearts of individuals can in
ttroduce a brotherhood that viii be
real and workable. We are steadily
morning; but whe nit dawnsa it will
not be called the Golden Age, nor
Utopia, nor Socialism, but the King
dom of Heaven.
The reins of the body must be given
into Christ's hand ere He can fully
reign over the soul.
The first service anybody can rem
der society is to present it with a
strong, symmetrical and seIf-re-
strained individual member.
Let not the illusion of thy sense
Betray thee to deadly offences
Be strong! Be good! Be purel
-LOngfellow.
Self-knowledge. self-reverence, self
, control,
These three alone lead life to sover.
eign power.
-Tennyson.
He who would be strong in his owl
soul must keep his spirit in control
New men alone can make new
! earth. When men break away from
! the dominion of all iusts, when the,
, become free in their self-restraint anC
over body, when men yield obedienc
5 to their higher reason, and not to thei
: passions, then will the earth be trans
/ formed into the very likeness o
S heaven
l No man or woman of the humbles
sort can really be strong, gentle, pur
and good without the world being tn
| better for it; without somebody bein
2 helped and .comforted by the very ex
= istence of that goodness.-Phillip
), Brooks.
One of the heartening and oft-re
l peated exhortations of the Bible i:
4 BE strong; fear not" That is tn
= divine program for life. Faint-heart
q edness is a denial of confidence in Goo
He is honored by fearless endeavoT
:, all His prophets and heroes hav
!, been men who have not been afraid t
+ attempt great things for GOD.
y Will you decree wanton-like that tn
y = man you might have been shall neve
= be?-David Starr Jordan,
! So nigh is grandeur to our dust.
/ So near is God to man,
! When duty whispers low. Tho
5 The youth replies. 81 can"
e Emerson.
h Only they are masters among mel
= and acceptable followers of the gres
'e Master who have first mastered them
st selves.
n Everybody owes his world not mol
e has present powers. but also all tha
1T he may make of those powers.
> Every day, in even the most com
le monplace lives, the pure in heart sc
l. God. Others are torn and racked b
III suspicious anu NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. u liie
1T fellows, but the pure in heart see til
is diviner motives in the deeds dor
= about them, so that in the good wore
- and works of men, in the everyda
"a happenings, they behold the mirrore
=, image of God Himself. Moreover,
the pure in heart the Bible is an i
ilum mated book, and nature is a
open revelation of the Creator. TT
IN heavens that wisdom cannot pens
is trate are rolled back before the visio
t: of the pure in heart
:"
is We shall never win victory on
or side us until we are masters, wit
n Jesus Christ. in our own house.
:" Charles Brown.