The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-22
otives suprcmely important

FOR where your wealth. IS there also
will your heart be.
Motives suprcmely important
THE eye is the lamp of the body.
If then your eyesight is good, your
whole body will be well lighted; but
| If your eyesight is bad, your whole
body will be dark. If however the
very light within you is, dark less. how
dense must the darkness bel
mo man can be the bondservant
of two masters; for either he will
dislike one and like the other, or he
will attach himself to one and think
be the bondservants both of God and
Of gold. For this reason I charge
All Worry is forbidden TO
Christians
you not to be over-anxious about your
| lives, inQuiring what you are to eat or
what you are to drink, nor yet about
your bodies, inquiring what clothes
more precious than its food, and the
body than it's clothing? Look at the
birds which fly in the air: they do
not sow or reap or store up in barns,
but your Heavenly Father feeds
them: are not you of much greater
value than they? Which of you by
being oVer-anxious can add a single
foot to his height? And why be
lesson from the wild lilies. Watch
their growth. They neither toll nor
spin, and yet I tell you that not even
Solomon in all his magnificence could
array himself like one of these. And
if God so clothes the wild heritage
which today flourishes and tomorrow
is thrown into the oven, is it not much
more certain that He will clothe you,
you men of little faith? Do not be
over-anxious. therefore, asking What
drink?' or What shall we wear?
For all these are questions that
Gentiles are always asking; but your
Heavenly Father knows that you need
these things-an of them. But make
His Kingdom and righteousness your
chief aim, and then these things shall
all be given YOU in addition. Do not
be over-anxious, therefore, about to-
morrow, for tomorrow will bring its
own cares. Enough for each day are
its own troubles.
Sinners must not Judge Sinners.
Judge not, that you may not be
judged; for your own judgement will
be dealt-and YOU own measure
meted-to yourselves. And why do
you look at the splinter in your
brothers eye, and not notice the beam
which is in your own eye? Or how
say to your brother, Allow me to
take the splinter out of your eye,
while the beam is in your own eye?
Hypocrite, first take the beam out of
your own eye. and then you will see
clearly how to remove thu splinter
from your brothers eye.
"Give not that which is holy to the
dogs, nor throw your pearls to the
swine; otherwise they will trample
them under their feet and then turn
and attack you.
Prayer. A three-fold Promise
ASK, and It will be given to you;
seek, and you will find; knock, and
the door will be opened to you. For
it is always he who asks that receives,
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knocks that has the door opened to
him. What man is there among you,
who If his son shall ask him for bread
will offer him stone? Or If the |
son shall ask him for a fish will offer
him q snake? If you then, imperfect
as you are, know how to give good |
gifts to your children. how much more |
will your Father in Heaven give good |
things to those who ask Him! Every
thing, therefore, be it what it may, |
do you also the same to them; for in |
this the Law and the Prophets are |
summed up.
The Need for Earnestness
Enter by the narrow gate; for wide |
is the gate and bread the road which
leads to ruin, and many there are who |
enter by it: because narrow is the /
gate and contracted the road which |
leads to Life, and few are those who
find il.
Teachers are to be judged by
their Lives
Beware of the false teachers
men who come to you in Sleeps
fleeces, but beneath that disguise they /
are ravenous wolves. BY their fruits
you will easily recognize them. Are |
grapes gathered from thorns or figs
from brambles? Just so every good
tree produces good fruit, but q poison
Gus tree produces bad fruit. A good /
tree cannot bear bad -uit, nor a
poisonous tree good fruit. Every tree
which does not yield good fruit is cut |