The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-30
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Cling. contentious. and selfish world
deVotees for the serene and open-hearted
hafuralness Of the strong souls who dis
play the virtues of Jesus2 The guileless
OF eheSChurch is in itself a compliment
and a protection.
The Sovereignty of Babyhood.
a magnates attitude toward his
g1ahdchlid. as We read Of it in the daily
paper recalls US to sense of real value
Many millionaire lives with his heart
Sentefed chiefly on some tiny bundle of
humanity, which knows and cares
naught for dollars or position. know
q mansion which has as its heart for
Wnleh an the rest exists. frail little
cnlid For the sake Of that child the
dwellers in the home would gladly sur
iehoer all their magnificence and live
IN cottage, if they could thereby be
assured of its welfare.
humanity cannot be wholly bad so
, iohs as chiidhood remains sacred to
II. Ih1s sacredness of Childhood Is a
direct tribute to Christ. we love chin
oheh Tor their own sake but we
learned to love them especially be-
cause Jesus came as a little child He
y stiii the friend of children and chill
orsn are his devoted friends. The
oaugHter OF clergyman was fatally
stflcken ey an accident about a year
d6o- only short time before the
ntile one had gone to her father and
saIu' I love favver and I love muv-
yer, but love Jesus most of ALL
One of the memories of r.1ined San
francisco which comes back to me
WITH great Vividness is of q night
When penetrated into the recesses of
one OF the Chinatown rookeries. where
was suddenly met by little Chi
nese child, who began to sing to me
IN Chinese The melody was familiar
and she. in pigeon English translated
II into the words dear to childhood
the world around,
Jesus loves me this I know,
For the Bible tells me So
Christ takes his stand with child
! hood He environs his own person
ality by childhood. and in turn. en-
virons childhood by his personally.
w hoso shall receive one such little
| enid IN my name receiveth me-" SAYS
He The welfare of little children is
the welfare of Christ. The progress
Of Christ is the progress of childhood.
Wherever there is a welcome for a
neWcoming baby there is a welcome
for Jesus Christ. Race suicide" of
which so much is said of late. is a.
reputation of Jesus and his teachings
tremendous book, although but of
few pages has recently appeared.
called, "A World Without a Child. .
1t IS the most graphic picture of an
unlovely earth that I have ever read.
and its description of the end of the
world grips one as none of the pre-
dictions of scientists have ever been
able to do. The story Of childIess
world IS, of course the story of a
goddess world. Where there are no
children; there will soon cease to be
church. It is childhood that keeps
fresh and warm and spiritual and un-
selfish the heart of humanity.
Assassins of Innocence.
Strong. clear and cutting words
often fell from the tongue of the gen
tie Jesus. He had such speech for
the eensorious and the unioving self
righteous ones of his time. He had it,
too. for all who should make little
children to offend. There is some
thing like 1erceness in the note Of
Jesus speech. as he declares that the
man who causes a child to stumble IS
worthy to have a millstone hanged
about his neck and 70 be cast into the
depth of the sea. The worst fate can
Thus we gain a clear idea of Christ's s
conception Of the enormity of Of
fenses against childhood
Would that there might be an echo
Of that vigorous spirit of His through
out Christian civilization today. I'm
doubtedly we are still too tolerant of
the assassins of innocence. Into eye
and ear they pour the molten metal of
evil that will scar tender minds and
/ conseiences. They force the toddling
/ niue one 10 ledII Inc speech lnaL IS OF
the pit; no ch-sd is so tenderly nur-
tured ss to be beyond the possible
reach Of the profane and lewd word
! Vile pictures stare from the bill
boards. to be devoured by the avid
eyes of childhood. Unspeakable peep
shows claim the pennies of the little
ones. AS they grow toward their
: teens, they And monsters ready to tell
them evil stories and to circulate sur
repttiously unspeakable pictures and
| books. All this is even worse than
I the greed that would grind out the
lives of childhood beneath the upper
and neither milI-stones Of factory life