The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-10
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
BY w. T. ELLIS

and idols and temples went crumoing
beneath his blows. You cannot puri1y
a foul pond with violet water; or cure
cancer by soothing lotions. SO JOSIAH
scattered the ashes of the Idols upon
the graves of their worshipers, and
he burnt the bones of the false priests
upon their heather affairs HARD.
Yes but 1t purged the land. There is
no use of trying to hang pictures over
pollution. Chinese fashion instead OF
cleaning it up. Purity must precene
power. Perhaps the brooms ana
scrubbing brushes and scrapers that
are at work upon church and state
Just now are making way for the long
deferred great revival" minister
was telling me about revival in ms
church, and / asked him how many
accessions he had Not one, but we
got rid of twenty, and 1t was a great
revival"
Real Reformer.
The test of the critics usefulness is
Does he construct? rs he busy
about good work? ?" There are score
of good workers to stand idly by and
find fault with every new piece OF
work that is done in the neighbor
hood: never mind them. When the
criticism comes from a real workman
it is to be needed The builders-up
alone have a right to tear down.
Josiah alone was real reformer. He
destroyed the bad only that he might
do good. The problem of the cities
! visited by Billy sunday is the problem
| of finding means of Christian nurture
and profitable recreation for the con-
verts of the great revival. The devil
| loves a vacuum.
So Josiah the iconoclcst. became
Josiah, the builder. He Sc about re-
constructing the neglected dilapidated
| temple of Jehovah. With system and
| thoroness, and to the sound of music.
the holy edifice was restored, to be
the center of the peoples religious in
terest and affection. He supplanted
the old which he had over~hrown with
| that which was better. The people
were saved from wicked lives and
from what was almost as bad empty
/ lives. The young man who had great
/ ly dared the seemingly impossible had
accomplished II.
Woes Worst Weapon-The Tongue.
Terse Comments on the Uniform
! Prayer Meeting Topic of The Young
Peoples Societies-Christian En-
deavor, Etc.-For August IL: THE
Sin of Gossip and Scardal."-Ps.
/ 120-1-7; Elk. 20-16.
Fruit comes from the root It is
only by looking to the springs of our
life that we can secure fer ourselves
gracious and proper habits. We can
not fasten good habits to our lives as
the Jews fastened their religion to
their foreheads in the forrI of phylac-
teries. If the impelling spirit within
us is right, if our hearts are pure and
noble. then there is small danger of
our speech being undesirable.
Good habits are as easily formed as
bad. 1t requires no more effort of
will to grow into the custom of doing
) noble and beautiful things than il
does to become the slave of disagree
able habits. We are slow to recog-
nize the truth-tho it is the truth
nevertheless that the habit of benevo-
lence. for instance, is as easily formed
! as the gossip habit.
: Manners are the minor morals
writes one. The agreeable good per-
} son is no more goOd than the boor
J besides being twice as influential for
righteousness. Brute speech, morose-
ness and an abrupt manner are by no
! means necessary accomplishments of
goodness; in truth they reveal a lack
of highest religion.
The soul should be master of the
tongue.
: Every trait that was found in Christ
is worth culuvating in ourselves.
He is twice strong who is gentle in
/, his judgment.
; There is more hope of a prodieaI
than or an envious and suspicious
man.
Gossip puts bitter drops into all of
LIES sweet draughts.
l The very fact that scandal is a COM
mon sin makes it a great one 1t
$ stands in the way of Christian growth.
1t mars the symmetry and beauty of
: character. 1t binders that love be-
tween brethren which is the fulfilling
of the law of Christ and the pre-
Y requisite of the coming of his king
dom. Let US not call any sin small
t which bars the progress of Jesus; and
D this scandal surely does.
Scandal is all evil; not jot of good
comes from it.
D Many proverbs remind us that the
: spoken word and the sped arrow can
I never be recalled. The irrevocable-
i ness of speech is its most dread quail
g ity. Gunshot wounds may heal sword
thrusts may leave no scar, poison may
= be eliminated from the body. but a
: the human tongue, inflicts wounds
c that are permanent.
e Less brains are required to say bril-
8 liant, bitter words about people than
to say brilliant, kind words The
cynic's wit is easiest and cheapest.
e - GLOBE SIGHTS |
tFrom the Atchison Globe.1
= Most watchmakers work overtime.
!. So often there is so much enthua-