The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

a word he that had made a reputation
upon many seas as s@The Tiger be-
had wrought the miracle, for miracle
it was? Simply Jesus Christ What
happened in that once instance has
lilppened, and is still happening IN ten
significant fact in Christianity is that
Jesus Christ has power to change the
lives of men This is the present-day.
unanswerable. miracle Of the Gospel.
It is a demonstrabIe fact, for infidel-
ity to explain, if it can. that the diffu-
sion of intelligence the increase OF
brotherliness and the growth of re-
finement have followed closely in the
wake Of the spread Of Christianity.
Old King Midas is said, by the fable,
to have had the power to turn into
gold every object that he touched
The touch of Jesus has power to call
forth all that is golden in human chhr-
acter-
Friendship with the best evolves
ones best The only explanation for
the sweetness, sunniness and service
ableness of lives known to every reader
of these lines is that they have kept
company with the gentle Jesus As
ISOLATION begets likeness. These choice
spirits have walked SO closely with him
that they have come to wear his image
The Christliness of our neighbors is
due only to their intimacy with Christ
A rescue mission worker, S. H. Had
ley, of the famous Water Street mis-
sion, New York, was telling a success
sion of dramatic instances of the max
ing over of drunkards WHO had come
to the mission. Many of these had
vainly tried the various cures for
drunkenness. Mentioning one, Mr.
Hadley said, They talk about the
- cure;' why some of these men.
could swim in it and it would never
phase them. But that appetite, which
Jesus Christ can completely eradicate.
He has done it in hundreds of cases
known to me-
The life that finds Christ first of all
has its crookedness made straight.
John, "the son of thunder" kept
company with Jesus for three years in
the flesh, and walked with him in the
spirit for many years afterward. That
companionship made him over into
the gentle apostle of love, whose let
ters, written in his old age, are brin-
ming over with the truth that God is
love" Simon Peter, the emotional
impulsive, erratic fisherman, went into
the school of Christ and came out a
rock in character; strong in himself
and a strengthened of his brethren.
What the Master did for those earliest
disciples he has been doing through all
the years since. W1L1
transforms character.
The one true cosmopolitan is Jesus.
He is the world citizen, and the con-
temporary of all time. Intimate re-
latfonship with him unconsciously but
inevitably lifts a life into broader out
look, larger sympathies. nobler ambi-
tons. Who are the persons upon
whose minds the whole world rests
most as problem and a concern. Who
talk and study and pray most about
the affairs of the universe2 Who
watch most keenly the progress Of
The affairs of all mankind concern
them because they concern Him. A
vital part Of their mission on earth
they conceive to be the bringing in of
the day when all men shall know Him,
from the least unto the greatest Old
Atlas has his closest type today in the
men and women who bear daily upon
their Hearts the burden Of the whole
wide world.
A life is changed when its motives
are changed; and this is still the daily
business of Jesus Christ.
One goal which all attain who fol-
low the Man of Galilee is likeness to
their Leader.
A man finds a fortune, and it leads
him. who was aforetime a steady, in
dustrious and useful citizen, to play
the fool. "A man finds a new friend,
in whom IS incarnated noble ideals,
and Immediately his own nature begins
to expand under the new influence. So