The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05

nation" Daniel xii, -. The message
of this hour, dear friends. elsewhere
stated in Holy Writ. is, Seek meek
ness; seek Righteousness. It may be
that ye shall be hid in the day of the
LORDS anger" (Zephaniah H. 81.
Hidden Things to Be Revealed.
The greatest Teacher the world has
ever known, Jew, eighteen centuries
ago, declared prophetically of our day
that every hidden thing shall be re-
Vealed (Matthew X, 26). We see his
prophecy fulfilling. The secrets of ma
tons are being exposed. Injustice in
its every form is being brought to
light as never before. IniQuity in
financial institutions and in politics
and in private affairs is being remorse-
lessly muckraked and brought to light.
Expediency and policy might say,
Hide these things from public gaze.
But under Divine Providence the light
is being turned on everywhere and
! hidden things of darkness are being
exposed, sometimes in the evil and
sometimes in the good And some
! times, perhaps the Adversary sue
evil. We are merely noting the gen
eral tendency-the great fact so pc
.culfar to our day. We are not saying
that every charge of fraud is bona fide.
Leyeling Processes Are at Work.
The great leveling processes men
ltOiteQ Dy the prophet may be seen at
work everywhere in society-in poll
tics, IN finance, in religion. A straight
path Is certainly being marked out in
the wilderness. The people are com
ing to- see gradually what constitutes
justice from the Divine standpoint
the path that Jehovah God will take
when coming to mankind to require an
accounting for the blessing of religion
and the enlightenments granted to hui
mainly in this, our day Those who
nOint ont fn mankind the 10Th
do not always walk therein themselves.
nevertheless, the great purpose of the
Almighty is being accomplished in the
exposures of sin and injustices, wheth-
er made de from the Christian pulpit or
from the Socialistic platform or in the
public press. The Divine edict is,
Make straight in the desert high
way for your God" (Isaiah XII. 3)-show
his path of righteousness; make it
known to all the people.
We should remember, however, that
it is one thing to know the path of
righteousness, of justice and of equity,
and another thing to walk therein.
Let us, my dear hearers, see to it that
we not only recognize the Divine
standards of righteousness and that
we proclaim these to all who have the
! hearing ear, but let us also take heed
| that we practice what we preach;
| that we be not condemned in respect
to those principles which we allow and
| acknowledge and proclaim as the Col
! den Rule to others. Alas for the hypo-
| critics who proclaim the way of the
| Lord to others, yet ignore that way in
| their own dealings. We have every rea-
! son to believe that honesty is one of the
| qualities which our God most highly
| appreciates in his creatures; hence we
may be sure that hypocrisy is one
| of the most abominab1e qualities in
his sight Hearken to the words of the
| Great Teacher, Woe unto you scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! for We
/ Iade men with burdens grievous to be
borne, and We yourselves touch not the
! (Luke XII, 44-46).
Let all who have named the name
of Christ; all who in any sense of the
word profess to be Gods people, put
far from them the hypocrites which
/ appear so abomlnable to others. Let us
/ be honest. Let us practice even more
| than we ever preached. Let all who
belong to the Lord be indeed burning
| and shining lights in the world-exam-
pies of Justice and righteousness in
| their homes, in their neighborhoods in
the workshops and in the markets. Let
us not only proclaim and assist in
| making straight before our feet the
pathway of our God, but let us con-
] thoughts thereto. The general result
\ of the uncovering of the hidden things
| of darkness, and the bringing of them
to light, and the proclamation of the
straight way of the Lord, will have a
great effect, and the effect is declared
by the prophet. It will mean a revo-
luton in symbo1ical language, an
earthquake. Note the picture given:
Every valley shall be exalted, and
! every mountain and hill shall be made
low; and the crooked shall be made
straight, and the rough place smooth
Il Not in one instant will all this mighty
transformation of society be accom-
plished- Not at once will all the de-
graded members of the human family
be brought to the general standard or
level. Not at once will the mountains
and hills (the kingdoms and prince
doms of the world) be brought down
to the common level. Not at once will
thus a general equalization of society
be effected. But it will be effected