The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-04
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
T-=IHH finest genius, the highest
touch with human life.
ia There is more of affectation
than real greatness in the
writer, artist, musician or
speaker who disdains mankind. and
seeks sequestration for the cultivation
OF the muse. Every life Whlch con-
tains strains of beauty will have
its times apart; but it Will never lose
its contact with people.
This attitude was characteristic OF
Jesus There was not height of med1-
tation and aspiration, no seclusion
from which he could not be recalled
by the cry of human need. Last week
we found him turned aside from the
pursuit of rest in order to teach ana
feed curious, hungry, impulsive ran
Bile Now, clean forespent by that
soul taxing day, and freshly assaiied
by Satan's greatest temptation, ne
once more goes apart into mountain
to pray-only to hasten down because
his fisherman friends are in danger. II
looks as II Jesus regarded helpfulness
as of more Importance than anything
else in life; for, in the piled up ex-
periences of these crowded days, ne
was giving point to the life principe
that 1.-THE Son of Man came not TO
be ministered unto. but to minister
eNerves" or Selfshness.
Some personsthink themselves SO re-
Ane6 and delicate and nervous that
a loud noise, or the odor of a sweaty
crowd in a street car, or the NOISY
play OF children, drives them to the
doctors medicines. They talk about
NERVES when they really mean sim
ple. old fashioned selfishness. They
have dwelt so much upon themselves
that they have grown needless OF tne
big world of men, women and emil
dren. of which they are so infinitesimal
In contrast with all such, consider
Him who was the consummate express
sion of humanity's best MANHOOD as
full of divinity as manhood could hold
Never a spirit or a body so hne!y at
tuned as his. No soul so sensitive TO
harmonies of every sort. Yet now
close he kept to the close hbered, com
1nonnIace. toiling, everyday people OF
his timel When the German emperor
visited Jerusalem, they made speclal
roadway for him; but Jesus 1orceo ms
own path up into the businesses Oh tn9
Yachts carry the mighty ones OF earth;
he travelled afoot, or In smeared'
smelly boat of working fishermen.
Eloquent with the days most nee1 1!sI
MESA e of brotherhood was this Tie
lived assiduously with the crowd.
Feeding. healing, sympathiztng, teach-
ing comforting-his was Ire Oh ser
vice that bids US all remember that
especial indulgence, but rather Inat
thew should especially serve. Wheh
we go from our Hottest heights 10 the
lowiiest ministry, we are Following III
the footsteps of the Master
eBrother, Your Path Is Green"
From the place of peace to the stress
of storms the transition ever easy
Was there not a bit of spirit wrench
when Jesus turned his back upon MS
prayer retreat and girded himset 70
walk the waves of his menaced rrlends
even as there is a pang when a DIS,
ciple today leaves the coInIo[taDle am -
bappy family circle, or the DecKonihg
hook or the needed leisure, in order
to teach a Sunday school class, visit
sicl~ person, attend a religious meet
ing. or in some other way r I'LL "
If was from the secret place OF soil
cav Draver that the peril of the dis
cfpies called Jesus. He had experlenceo
a crowded day. Exhaustion 4au i isid
dc heavy hand upon him. He had
surely earned repose. Nevertheless, ne
was not "too busy or "too tired" to
Drav. He could do without food and
sleep and the society of his friends,
hut the times alone with his rather
Ne counted essential. We notice how
keenIy alert and obedient Jesus was
to the highest needs of his nature,
while at times disda1nful OF his lower,
We kent his spirit attuned for its best
canabiIities. Though trite, the state
nent is tremendously true that every
bodv needs supremely to cultivate the
higher. deeper, Godward side OF his
nature. A man cannot afford not to
The story is told of some African
rg,ristians who were wont to go apart
9-onn their homes into the jungle for
daily prayer; so that 8. path was soon
beaten to these natural prayer closets.
when one of them began to decline in
+he Christian life a friend would say
TO him in kindly brotherlfness,
''Brother. your path Is green" Inc
snirituaI retreat; and when the prayer
nath is green, the spirit life is sere
and dead.
The Friends Need.
srRut thee. but thee, o Sovereign Seer
put thee. o mans best man, o loves
n rep fsc life life in perfect labor writ,
n ali mems comrade, servant, king or
priest,
what lapse,
What least defect or shadow OF derect
what rumor, tattled by an enemy,
or inference loose, what lack or grace
Even in fortunes grasp or sleeps OF
oh, what amiss may forgive IL
Jesus, n' good Paragon. thou crysta,
Christ %
This faultless gentleman never lack
ed in that fine consideration for others
which is the essence of courtesy. He
held that no personal engrossmen
could excuse a failure to remember
others. He was at this time struggling
in prayer: for the temptation hat
again been thrust upon him to go t.
success by the short and easy way O.
an earthly kingdom. Once he haC
downed that temptation in the wilder
ness: but temptation is a hydra tina
must be slain often. This besetmen
nR rnnnlaritY which has been the un