The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-29

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What England needs is not reor-
Ganization, but resurrection; not re-
form but re-birth; not new measures,
but new type of men-the heroic
Christian"
There is no power possessed by
Peter and Paul, whose words and
works make up the bulk of the Book
of Acts, that is not at the service of
every disciple of Christ today. This
old world is going to be made over,
and made right, only by the Gospel
of Jesus, which alone is sufficiently
contemporary to be of service.
Time as a Teacher.
Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
Peoples Societies-Christian En-
deavor, etc.-for December 81:
Lessons to Learn from the Past."-
Eph, 5:15-21.
Milestones are not monuments, but
fingerboards. The only possible use
for yesterday is to serve today. None
but forward-looking persons are of
service to the world.
Father Time is a schoolinaster with
a rod What birchings he has given
US in the year that is almost gone! Yet
only 80 would We learn: for most of us
are dullards in the school if life
My soul is sailing thru the sea.
That Past hath crusted cumbrous shells
That hold the flesh of cold sea-mells
About my soul
1ne huge waves wash. the high waves roll,
Each barnacle clingeth and worketh dole
And hfndereth me from sailing,
Old Past let go, and drop in the sea
Till fathomless waters cover thee,
For l am living but thou are dead,
Ihou drawest back. strive ahead
The Day to find.
Thy shells unbind Night comes behind,
l needs must hurry with the wind
And trim me best for sailing.
ta-.H Sidney Eanier.
New Year am 1 among the sons of men,
In heaven my name is Opportunity.
Mabel Earle.
Let the dawn of every morning be
to you the beginning of life and every
setting sun be to you as it's close
John Ruskin.
However stupid it may be. this old
world surely has learned from the
year that is passing that force is fool
ish, that hate hurts, that war is wick
ed and that the only law of life worth
following is the law of love laid down
by Christ.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
I'm Eng; happy bells, across the snow:
Ring out the false, ring in the true
ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife:
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic SANDER and the spite:
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease:
ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old
Ring in the thousand years of grace.
Ring in the valiant man and free
The larger heart. the kindlier hand:
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
-Tennyson.
Everybody blunders: but the wise
do not make 1ke same kind of blum
ders twice.
New resolutions really do make a
new year. Only purpose prevails.
Beneath the moonlight and the snow,
Lies dead my latest year:
The winter winds are wailing low
Its dirges in mine ear.
l grieve not with the moaning wind,
AS tho a loss befell:
| Before me, even as behind,
| God is, and all is well.
| Whittier
for the new year. but our one real
need and how different our needs
are from our wishes.-is for more of
the life and power and peace and joy
! of God in our hearts.