The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-30
REPLIES TO DEFENDERS.
State Journal Correspondent Doesn't
Think Flood Was a Judgment.


Think Flood Was a Judgment
To the Editor of the State Journal:
Are the Home Defenders justifiab1e in
the position they have taken with re-
gard to the Topeka flood?
The intelligent Bible reader no longer
conJures up God as a vague, indefinite,
abstract something or nothing, without
form or parts, everywhere in general
and nowhere in particular. If revela-
ton and inspiration is not a fabrication
from start to finish. then God is an in
tense reality. an independent person
ality, a distinct individuality,a supreme
experimenting intelligence, omnipotent,
and omnipresent not in person, but in
authority and IN power as a ruler in
/ his government. As a concrete identity
God has a habitation where he resides.
His abode is a high court and he always
works through agencies. He says to
I this one go, and he goes; to another
come, and he comes; and to still anOth-
er do this and it is done His ministers
are angels, archangels, cherubims and
seraphims. There is an angel of the
sun, another holds the winds in his
fists; then there IS an angel of the wa
ters and also one who superintends the
preaching of the gospel. Take your
Bibles and read of their visits, manifes-
tations and missions to men. How
they talked with Abraham, soJourned
with Lot, Wrestled with Jacob and min
i istered to Christ There are myriads,
vine beings. There are no drones or
idlers ia this invisible realm. All is
ceaseIess activity They are with US
sleeping and waking Joseph, the car
penter met them in his dreams. Anoth-
er among the myrtle trees. The sound
of their going" was in the tops Of the
mulberry trees. Every act OF
worship, the Invocation Of the
pastor, priest or preacher, the kneel-
1 ing congregation, songs and bened1c-
ton, all communion with the unseen
4 Focused on every human being, more
powerful than searchlight or A-rays,
more sensitive than camera MIN OF
wireless telephone. recording every
word. act and emotion from the cradle
i to the grave, is angelic espionage Holy
Writ shows that the supreme being. the
/ creator and ruler of the universe, IS IN
tensely interested and the celestldi
agents active in municipal and national
affairs. In peace and in war their pres
lence is felt influencing the thoughts
land passions of men. The history OF the
Jewish race is a remarkable exempllh-
ication and proof Of this me wars,
famines and punishments were the
direct interpOsition OF ProNldehce-
+ Floods, from Noahs, storms and pes
thence did their deadly work God says;
/ Il have smitten you with blasting ana
rnfldew: when your gardens and vine
wards and fig trees and your olive trees
/ increased the palmer worm devoured
them. that which the palmer worm left
hath the locust eaten and that Wnlcn
the locust hath left the cankerworn
hath eaten: ard that which the can
ker worm hath left hath the caterpillar
eaten
Thus to every minutia of private or
national life all is the result of good or
evil invisible intelligence. subject to re
ward or chastisement at the discretion
! of a pleased or displeased Almighty
+ Disembodied mortals reVel in the ethe-
real and are watching mundane affa1rs-
Noses and Elias talked with Christ on
the Mount of TRANSFORMATIONS Jonn on
the Isle of Patmos conversed with an
gelic fellow servant. The rich man peg
4 eed piteously that Abraham would send
some one back to warn his wicked rela-
tiyes. Every Christian must bel1eVe II
ispeciaI providences, otherwise prayer IS
silly and worship idiotic. The deVoul
,xorshiper is in harmony, rapport and
touch with the divine spiritual No
wollde- then the Jealous Home Defen-
ders, brooding and praying over the
awful liquor curse Chat IS hanging hke
a vampfre Of perdition over our lailu1
nd reading their Bibles, should see the
hand of Cod in the late flood. They re-
aIize that It is q war between satan ana
Christ. between good and evil spirits:
The iointists sympathetic courts ana
dram drinkers, the gross. sensual dhti
denraved are as thoroughly imbued,
enthused and animated by evil Genli.
as the loyal Christian people are by the
sentiment of righteousness Ihe winter
is not a church member and don Know
tl,at he ever will be but if that Old
Book of books is true and those crusa- llssa.
ders are in communication with hgh
heaven Topeka should abate the damn
10 lo,,or ellrse and be down in sack
and ashes. tJfoCE1iSf III