The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-16

son for June IL is. The Transhgu-
ration Luke 9s2S-36. The Golden
Text is This is my beloved son:
hear him. Luke 9:35.
BY WILLIAM IT. ELLIS
EHOLDERs Of the passing
show of life get only an in
adequate conception of the
dignity and power and
beauty and nobility of hui
mankind. A crowd of peo-
ope on the street give us no con
ception Of the greatness resident i'm
the breast of man. A safe principle
to tuck snugIy away at the basis of
all Of ones thinking is this. every
man is better than he looks to be-
and a man is not rightly known until
he IS known at his best. People would
indeed be petty and trivial and light
hearted were they no more than they
seem to be. as they move to and fro
on the public highways.
Yesterday you saw a mother trans
figured, as she bent over the crib Of
her first born. You wondered that you
had never before noticed how beau
tiful was her face; the fact is, never
before had you been given a glimpse
of her soul. Today you saw a lover
TRANSPORTED at the approach Of his
beloved. He forgot the surrounding
prosaic world and his soul leaped into
his eyes. al he stood before you a
NLH4HIiEuIEu DClifSe by NEESE Two
glimpses you learned more about this
woman and this man than you could
have learned by days Of common liv-
ing with them
The same is true of men in their
larger relations A nation is more
than an extent of land and an elabo-
rate machinery OF government. You
may have read all its laws, and met
all the men who make and execute
its laws, and yet not have known the
nation at ALL Only in the hours of
Inspiration, when the national spirit
breaks forth at its Hottest, does one
truly discern the character of peo-
pie. AS Kipling says.
IF England was what England seems
An not the England of our Dreams
her faithful sons would not freely give
u her their lives best powers.
A Message From the Mountain.
glimpse of the glory Of the Man of
Galilee. who had unpretentiously walk
ed among his fellows, seeming as much
like them as possible is given in this
lesson on the TRANSPORTATION. Jesus
had spent a week up in the region of
Caesarea Philippi, in retreat with his
disciples. 1t was not a time nor an Oc-
casiOn for the multitude. The great
themes of the Church and of the cross
were to be considered by the college Of
the apostles. They themselves were be
ing prepared for a greater work than
without a time of sequestrati ton Be
fore one can greatly labor among men
or for men he must greatly live apart
from men. The example of Jesus lies
back Of the familiar lines of George
Herbert,
''By all means use some times to be
alone;
Salute myself; see what thy soul doth
wear;
Dare to look within thy chest. for it is
thine own,
And tumble up and down what thou
fndest there"
Especially to those who are doing the
hard and heavy work oil the world and
of the Church are these times of retreat
and seclusion necessary. A mans ef-
fectiveness among men is in direct ratio
TO the recuperation Of his vital force
apart from men. One cannot always be
with the crowd and still lead the crowd.
What Friendship sees.
There was an inner circle among the
friends Of Jesus. From their place Of
sojourn in Caesarea Philippi he took his
three familiar friends. Peter, James and
John, up into a high mountain apart
doubtless on one of the spurs of NJ Junt
Hermon. 1t was before his closest
friends that he was TRANSPORTED. The
rabble never knows a man as his chill
dren and wife and mother and nearest
friend know him. The sacred revealiugs
of ones inmost spirit are reserved only
for the closest and the dearest. 1t is
to love that the clearest vision is grant
ed. The person who IS critical tow lrd
another, may be assured that he cannot
see that other in true perspective. No
matter in what close propinquity one
man dwells to another they are aliens
and strangers unless their hearts keep
comradeship- Through all of Hsa the
law runs that it is those closest who be-
hold TRANSPORTATION. This is boon
that comes with the friendship Of Jesuc.
Those who are nearest to him see
him IN his glory. To them are granite /
visions of which the world knows moth
ing. AS the TRANSPORTATION would have
been an idle tale to those at the foot
Of the mountain. so the sweetness of
Jesus Christ to a disciple is incompre-
henaible to non-Christian.
A Mans Best Moods.
Not only is it before his best friends.
but also when in his best moods, that
a mans best self is revealed. Tt was
AS he was praying" that Jesus was
TRANSPORTED. His mind had been shut
to earth The cares of the day had been
cast aside. All the lesser concerns
which he. with every other man. was
bound to carry, had been laid aside IS
he barred his soul TO the Father in
prayer.
prayer is transhguring. 1t does more
than impart a new light to the counter
ance, it adds q new lustre and beauty tc
the life I saw Dwight l. Moody. on
the mountain back Of his home al
Mortified, one Sunday afternoon, when
group Of men were gathered far pray
.er and although I have heard and seer
him many times. I always remember
him in that correction. for then it was
that his face shone as no fuller on earth
could whiten it. the story of the Trans
hguration is linked with that experience
in the presence of q great man of God
Whoever opens his heart to the noblest
sentiments. and who cuitiVates assid-