The Christian Blade from Topeka, Kansas • 1

df a Christian Take the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God: Eph. 6:17, Nurata4. Volume 1. Topeka, Kansas, April 15, 1898. you to have done and not to have R.

Timothy was a model EDITORIAL NOTES. left the other undone. Our subscription list is slowly but steadily growing-. The pyramids of Egypt are supposed to be the tombs of The devotion of a peo- The Kansas Christian Ministerial Association meets at Manhattan April 26-28. young man.

Hoivever, the fact is not surprising when we remember that he had been schooled, in that which was able to make him pie to a ruler prompted them to wjse unto salvation, from early perform this herculean task in childhood. He was blessed with order to provide a suitable resting place for his body. Peter says that Christians as living stones are built up a spiritual house. Love for Christ his followers to build a godly mother, whose implicit faith led her to look earnestly to the spiritual- welfare of her child. I would that all parents were such today; if they were we would have more true men We have so many good things furnished us this month that the editor is almost crowded out.

Bro. Alphin has been preaching for the colored brethren at Troy, Kansas. He is doing a good work among the people his own race. of up his Church as a habitation of God through the Spirit. Instead of inanimate stones and a dead king, we are living stones and have a living king, Dont fail to examine our premium Bible.

This is no cheap John affair, but a genuine Oxford Teacher's Bible, with all the modern Helps. We hope to send out a hundred of these Bibles in the next month. The Christian Church is often accused of causing divisions in the religious world. This is a mistake. We are governed by the Bible alone.

Others are governed by the Bible and some other book which we cannot adopt. We call ourselves Christians. Others call themselves Christians, and also by some other name which we cannot wear. We believe in, and practice immersion. Others practice immersion and something else which we cannot accept.

It is the other things which cause divisions, and hence it is the other fellows who are responsible for them. eternity and its fearful consequents) nor of their opportunities in this life from a philanthropic point of view. Again you will see still others who are listless and live out an I-don-t-care, pretty-well-myself, let-others do-likewise-, sort of a life. Remember that Christ was interested in such as these to the extent that he willingly laid down his life that they might be freed from this terrible sin. For such it all is.

To me there is no higher conception of true manhood than to be a faithful disciple of Christ soldier in the vast army of King Jesus. To be a true soldier in the army of Christ means to be a true man. To be a true man means that my ideal must be the Master and that my life must Conform to the precepts laid down by him. If I fail in this my work and usefulness are greatly impaired, because, people say why does he not live that which he professes to believe. Why should we urge on others that which we do not do ourselves? In conversation with a well educated native of India a few days ago I learned that missionaries would fail in their work mmediately if their lives did not comport with their teaching.

He said: Natives of India listen readily to the preaching of missionaries, but they watch their ives to see if they live that which they preach. If they live what they preach they are called good men. If they do not live what they preach they are immediately classed as hypocrites. Let this be an example to us, because we often fail simply because we are failures ourselves. Then when we realize that our influence is gone and that wTe have failed in our effort we ask with great concern why did I fail in ray effort to raise some of my fellow creatures into a higher and closer walk with Jesus? Not always is it the case but too often we as young people have failed because we were not true men and true women.

W. T. Fisher. Tabor, Iowa. We are in receipt of a Book of Sermons by Brother W.

B. Cochran of Lamar, Mo. This book contains fourteen sermons on important subjects which are discussed in a plain and forcible manner. Brother Cochran is an able preacher of the word. We once made our home with him while holding a meeting for his home church.

Send .0 cents to the author and get a copy of this excellent work. and women in the world. Paul recognized the need of true men when he said to Timothy: Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an ensample of the believers. How great that need is yet today. The ethics of true manhood is as old as mans existence on the earth, and in the minds of men, as unsettled as humanity itself.

It has as many conceptive ideals as there are individual conceptions of which it takes to make a true' Consequently the life is good or bad as is the chosen ideal and the conformity thereto. One, whose environments are vice and crime, is not apt to consider them harmful or unmanly. It is exigent therefore, that good seed be planted in the young mind early as possible by the parents, and the surroundings made to be such as always point to the higher life. Then the young man or young woman just beginning to reach out into the world should strive earnestly and steadfastly to cultivate a lofty conception of that which, in actual life, constitutes a true man or a true woman. There is a higher principle in life than self aggrandizment.

Look around you and you will see many of your fellow creat ures living, yet, in the dark jungle of ignorance, whose only ideal of life is to see that the lustful desires of the flesh are gratified. Look again and you will see others not living in the dark clouds of ignorance, but earnestly worshipping at the shrine of the god of wealth, popularity pleasure, and self contentment w7ho seemingly have never con sidered the value of their own a A man at Troy, Kansas, weit to the depot to take the train. His watch was three minutes behind time, and when he reached the station the train was gone. He was so angry that he smashed his watch to pieces on the floor. Many are governed by the things of time arid will miss the gospel train for eternity.

They will have only themselves to blame for their own tardiness. A short time ago we were in a store when a farmer came in and exchanged a case of eggs for tobacco. He gave one of the most nutritious and wholesome of foods for that which poisons the body and destroys vitality. During 1896 the tobacco users of the United States blew away the smoke, and spit away the juice, of $600,000,000 worth of tobacco. We once knew a man who stole his wifes ducks and sold them to buy whiskey.

He took only two or three at a time and she thought the foxes were devouring them. Such is the power of bad habit. Men sell them selves into slavery for life. From the Messenger we learn that the Christian churches of Kansas gave last year to Foreign Missions $2,659.84, and to Home Missions $457.69. The Messen ger rightly says: These offerings ought to be more nearly equalized.

The w-ay to even up is, not to bring the Foreign work down, but to baing the home work up These ought! True Manhood. Let no man despise no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity. (I Tim. thought souls (not having.