The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-01
In THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
What the Church Folks Are Thinking About and Doing
Religious News From Everywhere.
With Barred Feet

Listen to the speech of men in the
Smoking-roomS of trains and steam
ships, or as they gather for the rest at
the noon hour, or as they congregate
in store and club in the evenings; and
the impression is likely to be formed
in thoughtful persons mind that
reverence. God. religion, the church,
the ministry, the institutions and
agencies of Christianity, the sacred
relationships of life are treated light
unusual association with a diversity
of men, in all sorts of places, I have
regretfully come to the conclusion
that the modern man is seriously lack
serious is this shortcoming, even an
instant's thought will reveal. Rever-
ence underlies all the fundamental
human relations; it is a rock founda-
ton of society
There is a far-reaching philosophy
in the divine injunction to Moses to
take off his sandals from his feet, for
the ground on which he stood was
holy. Except Moses had the spirit of
reverence he could not enter into any
partnership with God. They who are
closest to the mind of the Divine are
the persons most filled with a sense of
his awesome majesty and of their own
unworthineSS. Shallow spirits some
times fall into the way of speaking as
lightly of God as though he were
man in the next room; real intimacy
with him is ever pervaded by the
spirit which cries Holy, Holy! Holy!"
The church as we'll as the world needs
to learn the lesson of the burning
bush. which is that, while God is
never far from any one of US, he is al
ways God, before whom the cherubim
and seraphim veil their faces.
The American national hymn en-
bodies the re-echoing phrase, "our
fathers God" That is a fact about
Jehovah which he delights to call to
T~a1 1eaY11 1aT-aT1 1,;e-
trustworthiness. He reminded Moses
Of it at the bush; he was still the
notwithstanding God of Abraham.
Isaac and Jacob; changing times and
him. He is 1.-THE same, yesterday and
today and forever" of God alone, and
of no earthly friend can this be said
Justice That Sleeps Not.
Because he is himself. Gods justice is
sure. That Is written in his very nature
Moses, like his suffering brethren down
in Egypt, had thought that all the pow
ers of right and justice were blind to
the expressions perpetuated by the
Egyptians. His spirit must have cried,
How long, Lord! how longl" But
Gods eye was not closed, nor his arm
shortened; his clock is never too slow
Many sufferers from the injustice of
railroad discrimination had despaired
of ever seeing the right come to pass;
many of the victims of corporate greed
and eXtortion-as in the case of the
oil trust-went down to the grave hope
less and seemingly unavenged. All the
while, though, Gods day was marching
o..
The atrocities on the Congo caused
many to sweat blood, while Christian
nations showed no signs of caring, be-
fore the stern voice of humanity was
at last heard. Poor Korea still feels
herself deserted to her fate of oppres-
sion and obliteration; but Christendom
already shows signs of waking up to
the truth. The opium curse had fas-
tened itself on China for decades and a
seemingly futile battle was waged
against it by a small and heroic band:
but now the victory seems % be in
sight. God may seem to tarry. for his
clock and mans do not seem to tick
to the same measure, but surely and
unfailingly God does vindicate his own
truth.
To the gladdened ears of Moses, who
knew himself only as an exile of pat
riotism, never dreaming that he was
to become the emancipation of his peo-
pie came the tidings that God had re-
garded the sufferings of his people and
now in the fullness of time meant to
deliver them. To have done so earlier
would have been to hinder their full
discipline and training. With the prom
Use of deliverance went also the prom
Use of a new life in goodly land.
A Shock for Shrinking Man.
Wonderful, almost beyond belief had