The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-07

of his message A Sunday SchooI
teacher has to illustrate his lesson by
his life. A preacher. must practice;
he offers himself as Exhibit Al OF
his sermons
So every church serves by being
and by doing. Every Christian and
nent of the Gospel Publicity is no
new theme; we are merely finding
new names for it. What says Paul
concerning the way the Thessal oman
church sounded out the word of the
Lord throughout Macedonia and
Greece? work advertises the worker.
1t is essential that a church and
Christians be such as will commend
the gospel.
Revolutionary Results.
When Paul was in Thessalonica, the
charge was made that he was one of
those who turned the world upside
down." Now at least a year later we
find, through his letter, that a trans
formed church had been realized in
Thessalonica. A body of Jews and
heather had been turned to Christ,
and had become engrossed in him.
This was the revolutionary result
achieved by Paul
The climax of the lesson, as indeed
of the letter, was PauPs clear reaf-
firmation of his teaching of the resur-
rection. All that he had said pointed
to and was founded upon the eternal
hope of an endless life with Christ.
He also assured them-for the point
perplexed them as it has perplexed
millions since-that the Christians
who should be alive when Christ
again comes should share in the re-
surrection with those who had already
departed. Whether in the grave or
in the flesh, Christ's own are to be
united with Him in triumph.
The VIII That Wins.
Terse Comments on the Uniform Pray
er Meeting Topic of the Young Peo-
pies Societies, Christian Endeavor,
ETC., for July is 1.-The Conservation
of Purpose. Acts 11:19-23.
Life is not playground. 1t is a
sphere where reasonable beings. made
in the likeness of God, may round out
the largest character. Life is serious;
/ it is not sent for our amusement, but
for our use. The men and women who
fulfill the highest manhood and wom-
anhood are possessed of a purpose:
they do not drift aimlessly and impul-
sively down the days. All their talents
a view to their highest effectiveness.
| Thus their lives achieve results in pro-
portion to their abilities.
Even the best may be bettered; in
deed, it must be bettered If it is not
| to grow worse. So nobody ever gets
beyond the necessity for saying, with
| the apostle, Brethren, I count not
myself yet to have laid hold; but one
thing do, forgetting the things which
are behind, and stretching forward to
the things that are before, 1 press on
| toward the goal unto the prize of the
high calling of Christ Jesus
The purposeless life is a rudderless
ship.
Christ proved his divinity by his
ministry. The disciple of this present
time can likewise show to the world
! by his deeds of devoted helpfulness
1 that he has been born of God
| He who walks ahead in a straight
| line makes a plain path for feet that
would waver.
| There is one law. and only one law,
4 That law is nobler than the famous
one laid down by Poionius when he
said, ITO thy own self be true The
inner judgment is less worthy and less
reliable than the divine standard. For
the supreme law of life, the law that
brings peace and power in its fulfill
ment, is the viii of God
Would'st thou excel? Let purpose run
4 A thread of gold from sun to sun!
James Buchanan.
Be your best for Christs sake, and
Christ will make that best count for
the worlds sake.
Men are judged not by their inten-
tons but by the results of their &C.
tions.-Earl of Chesterfield
Priceless treasures of experience
have been bequeathed to US by the
past. These are better than gifts of
ligo1d or jewels. For with our old ex-
| nPrianRa vEyir1 i1f<
Experience is not only wealth, but 1t is
armor. The past fortifies us for the
future. Experiences, even hard and
bitter experiences, may be credited up
to the side of profit
Whatever has been tested and found
| true in the past should be taken over
into the present. The friends who
have been tried should have a still
| larger part in our life. The habits and
deeds that have made us more Christ
| like should be repeated and multiplied
Most of all, we should take into each
day as it comes along more of Jesus
Christ.
It is only himself that each man
permits to act without a motive, and
| avails himself of the privilege with
astonishing frequency.-Jean Inge1ow
IF the will is weak, strength of BODY
counts for little.
Every life that loses its high pur-
poses becomes shorn Samson.
Keeping everlastingly at it brings
success is the motto of a great and
successful business concern The
motto is good one for the Christian
for our successes, 10th in character
and in deeds are not gained by spurts
and PUSHES. but by determined per-
sistent faithfulness. There are no fail
| ures for perseverance.
Each life well lived helps forward the
goal
OF the great ideal toward which we
trend;
| The sacred task of completing the whole
Must be wrought by men, as the ages end