The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10

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| is also employed to light the smallest
| cottages and to run the poor toiler's
single sewing-machine. 1t is not toe
great for small tasks. Similarly. the
exhaustless power of Gods helping
| Spirit Is sufficient for small achieve
| ments as well as for. great. It en-
| ables one Christian to control his tenn
per and another to die a martyrs
l'death at the stake. AS Paul points
out, it is good to help man to be
temperate and also to help him
achieve transformed character.
Some curious and interesting
changes are made in the American
Revised Version of the Bible, over the
| King James edition. In number of
been changed from the active to the
passive form. Thus, in the passage
which forms the basis of the present
study, the familiar words of Paul, II
We then be risen together with Christ,
seek those things which are above"
have been made to read, eff then We
be raised together with Christ" That
is to say, the active agent is not man,
but God. Man does not rise of him
self with Christ; he simply lets him.
God. 1t is mot I, but Christ" as Paul
elsewhere says; or Christ in you, the
hope of glory" Only by the super
natural does 1t become possible for a
mortal to attain unto the Christ life.
Christians are sharers: they share
the humiliation of their Lord. and
thew share his resurrection, and, like
him, they share themselves with the
world.
Only a triumphant Christ can give
person victory over his own baser
self.
For liberty did Christ set you
free"-liberty to be and to do the best,
liberty to rise above the old self and
into an ever-enlarging newness of life.
The other day I met stranger at
hotel table in an Ohio college town.
He wore a Brotherhood button and !
addressed him. He had been sum-
moned from his distant home to the
beside of a student son seriously Ill.
The boy had looked on death calmly,
and the fathers face shone as he told
me how the sick young man had said,
Father, 1 have two homes. one here,
and one yonder, and l shall be HAPPY
to go to either" With glistening eyes
the man went on to say to me, Il tell
you, friend, it's great to know, when
you're down in the Valley of the Shad-
ow, that he is with YOU" That rather
knew. He had tested and proved the
truth that Christ conquers even the
share his victory over the grave.
They who live for eternity should
live as imp1ortals. The prince may not
demean himself as does the beggar.
"Noblesse oblige" A heavenly crown
calls for heavenly conduct. The glory
of the life eternal and supernal should
be brought down to irradiate earth
by all who possess it as an lnherl-
lance.
1t is always Easter on Gods side OF
| the grave.
The Christian religion is pitched on
an ascending scale. 1t begins with an
cension. The path of the just shines
more and more to the perfect day:
| the day that is refulgent with the
| seen presence of the Sun of Right
eouSneSS.
Everybody who observes human ma
ture. whether he calls himself q
psychologist or merely a common
sense man. knows that there is a
| downward tug and pull to a life lived
| for material pleasure or sordidly sell
| fish ends. Sin is on descending
scale. It's slaves go from worse tic
worse. All it's roads lead downward
| On the other hand there is a power
| of upfift in religion. Christianity
| makes men better. It's followers
grow from "grace to grace" An old
saint is holier and happier than a
young one The longer Christ is fol
| lowed. the higher he exalts life. His
risen power is impaired to his friends
to help them. too, to rise. until they
| become partakers of his life and iden-
| titled with him.