The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-18


with that vivid golden strand It Is
| the hopeful sympathy, the loving kind
ness of Christ that endears Him TO our
hearts and makes His memory bene-
| diction radiating through two thous-
! and years of ignorance and wrong.
'It is this love as preached and prac>
ticed by the great Exempler that dis
tinguishes the religion of Christ from
the religion of Buddha, Brahma, Con-
fucius, and every religion the world has
known.
Speaking only last Sunday TO cui-
tured young gentleman VINO is a faith
full attendant Of a highly intellectual
| church, he said: 4 reverence Budha.
When the woman, Kisagetami, brought
TO him her dead babe, beseeching him
70 restore it to health and life, he sent
her forth in quest to bring black mus
| tard seed from the house where death
| had never been from dawn till night
she searched in vain, and then return
ed and said: Oh. Master, the dead
are many, the living few; I could not
| find house death had not visited; I
| fear me now my child IS dead" And
| Buddha replied: Thou hast sought for
| what none find, he whom thou lowest
| slept dead on thy bosom yesterday.
Bury then thy child Buddha, said
this student Of religious philosophy,
laugh the woman a great scientific
| truth. He taught her that the law OF
| life is death, and in doing so conferred
more benefit upon the race than Christ
! could have done had He in mistaken
| kindness restored the child to life for
| it reeds must die again.
but let US look at the other picture;
go with that broken-hearted mother
bearing her loved dead to the plying
/ Christ. The little form is rigid, the
/ dimpled hands are still; death had plac-
/ ed the seal of silence on its dewy mouth
! and given to its waxen face that pallor
I that death alone can give. Kneeling
/ before him and drawing back the face
cloth from her dead. she cried: on,
/ Master, / have Travelled for that thou
mightst look upon with gentle gaze and
/ touch with plying hand my child, long
| cold in death There was no desire in
! that ChristIy heart so filled with love
! for humanity TO teach that anguished
soul an abstract truth or a scientific law
! He sent her not forth in fruitiess quest
/ nor refused her prayer, bending upon
! her q look Of divine compassion. he
placed his hand upon the child, send
| ing through that inanimate clay the
/ divine currents of life and love. The
| babe looked into its mothers face and
smiled
Gould there be more forcible illus
! tration of the difference between a cold
intellectual Christless religion and the
warmth and sympathy of the Christian
religion. The dead Journalism and
| cold intellectually of Buddhism may
| do for the morning Of life when hope
| fills the exultant heart and no cloud
| obscures the horizon of youthful vision,
| but when the heart is burdened with
| grief, the eyes heavy with unshed tears,
| bearing our dead We come, shall we
seek an intellectual Buddha or a SYM
pathetic Christ. True, the child must
die again but the mothers heart is filled
to overlooking with unalloyed happl-
ness. And after all this pure happi-
ness should be the ultimate aim of all
religions. God intended His children
to be happy and free, and If we are not
happy it is because our deeds do not
| conform to our creed. Though the
law Of life be death, yet Christ has
rolled the stone from the grave away
and opened wide the portals of the sky
GAS followers of Christ we may make
the world fairer, happier than we found
1t, and with our beloved Whittier ex-
claim:
IF there Is some weaker one,
Give me strength TO help him on.
If a binder soul there be
Let me guide him nearer Thee.
Clothe with life the weak intent,
Let me be the thing 1 meant.
Make my mortal dreams come true,
With the work fam would do
Love IS the one great duty, the restorer
Of health and harmony, and all that
makes up the sum total Of human hap
piness. Hate is the one great evil, the
disintegrator, the fifth active principle
in the destruction Of life, the foe to
health, harmony and peace. From q
sanitary standpoint there should be no
hesitancy as to which principle should
become a factor in our lives. The Two
Hundred-Year club, with Headquarters
in New York City, will not permit a
membership to any one who is ignorant
Of the effects Of love and hate upon the
physical organism. The Ralston Health
club that numbers the largest member
ship of any organization of its kind in
the United States teaches in its fifth
degree work THAT no true Ralstenite
can entertain thought Of hatred To
Prof. Henry Wood in his hopeful work
entitled, ideal Suggestions We are
indebted for light that reveals the Bible
IS book of scientific eXactitude and
We begin to realize the meaning OF
As man thlnketh, SO is he" He
says, 1t has long been conceded
by scientific and medical men that hate |
sthinket deforms, disintegrates. and de-
fstroys. the phSical organism: that an |
ger. hatred, in-wiu and anxiety bring |
mental and physical chaos. While |
this fact has been conceded and |
accepted by all we have been slow 10 |
recognize that the opposite of hate |
viii have an opposite effect: that If |
hate oestroyes, love builds up, reno |
Yates and restores.
4, ideals seek ever 70 actualize them |
SELVES; the deed or wori fits the |
as the photograph fits the neg
iative. Hateful thoughts make them |
SELVES manifest in deeds and words az |
.evn- Lovely thoughts seek manifesto
tlons in deeds and words of love. Hence |
lthe relationship and necessity Of right |
thinking to a Christian life. Throuchout |
i2lI his life and teaching Christ en-
.phasized this scientific applicat ton Of |
natural law. His words and deeds |
were but the reflex Of pure and loving
thoughts. Nowhere IN the history of
His sacred life, not even where he
stands before the tomb of Lazarus and |
bids him. Come forth. IS this helpful
sympathy and love EXTENDED to all men
more clearly manifest than in the les
son Of the day. Let US go with Him 10
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