The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05
In the Religious World
What the Church Folks IRE Thinking
ABout and Doing. Religious NeqUS
From EVeryWhere.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON AND YOUNG PEOPLES ToPIC

which, despite this plain teaching, the
church has been making for years.
She has paid too much attention TO the
evil in the world and not enough TO the
planting and nurturing Of good Chris
tians. as well as their critics, have been
unduly exercised about hyDocrltes in
the church Better accept it as a fact
that thev are there Do not be too
quick to label them; neither hinder the
harvest by attempting to pluck out the
tares. Thereby much wheat may be
destroyed. A certain popular religious
weekly was once aptly described as
The paper which knows so much
about the devil Impatient servants
want to gather IN for destruction the
tares in the Masters field. but He is
wiser, and bids them wait and work.
In the spiritual realm. long patience
is necessarv. Like children, we want
a quick reckoning and a short set
tlement An italian Droverb says.
God always paws. but he does not pay
every SATURDAY." The PSalmist was
troubled by the apparent prosperity OF
the wicked. God is willing to wait
He has longer plans than the minds OF
His servants can GRASP.
The patience of God passes belief
How long He has borne with the
WorIdi How much Of rejection and IN
suit He has endured What long
rope he has paid out to the wicked!
Something of this Infinite patience Of
the Divine is required Of all those who
would deal with immortal souls and
with spiritual truth. IN patience we
are to win our own souls. and all the
souls that we seek.
The End Proves All.
The test comes at harvest time. The
end proves everything. At the last.
every one comes to his own. We can
not understand the Inf1nite's dealings
with this world until we have looked
at them from the vantage point of an
>, Of
your thoughts. neither are my ways
your ways" The sons of the kingdom
and the sons of the evil one eventu-
ally go to their father, however much
they may look alike for time 1t IS
the destination which separates trav-
eIers: and il is the destination which
proves the journey
So greatly has the Christian world
Of today been filled with the compass
sionate spirit of Christ that it does not
like to dwell on this ugly truth of
reprobation. It may have been the
case at one time that the glory of
heaven, in the minds of some, was the
number of people who were not to en-
ter it. Today it IS far otherwise. Men
are fond of repeating:
For the love of God Is broader
Than the measure of mans mind,
And the heart of the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind"
So kind is God that he must be
the harvest. which He has said is the
end of the world. while the reapers
are the angels, GAS therefore the
tares are gathered uD and burned; so
shall it be in the end of the world The
Son of Man shall send forth his angels,
and they shall gather out of his king
dom all things that cause stumbling.
and them that do iniquity. and shall
cast them into the furnace of fire j;
there shall be weeping and crashing
Of teeth" A contemplation of the end
of the evil-doer is not comfortable for
him or for anybody else; but it is
profitable.
IN the last great harvest, the wheat,
no matter how thickly it may have
been surrounded by tares. finds its way
to the Kings garner: the tares go to
the refuse heap. Together in life.
though never congenial, they are sepa-
rated in death. The hypocrite may
prosper for time. because mans sight
is short and feeble. he can not pros
per eternally. because Gods sight is
very strong and searching. Men may
! be deceived: He never is The hypo-
critic IS a problem in the church mill
tant. but he will be no problem IN the
! church triumphant