The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-19

AA ''practicaI'' man who has
- right to the front of the pro-
cessit.n of progress; and that 1oeals
are nslught: at doesn't matter what
a man believes" Says Mr.. Chesterton:
s'The time of big theories was the
time Of big results. In the era OF sen
tinlent and fine words, at the end OF
the eiRh teenth century, men we're re-
eIlv robaIst and effective. The senl-
mentalisHs conquered Napoleon. me
cvnics COZ Id not catch De Wet. just
as this rapudiation of big words ana
bie visior.3 has brought forth race
of small men in politics, SO 1t mas
brought forth a race OF small men III
the arts ,.1
Of moral IDEAS in literature, he fur
Their REMARKS, sarcasticaLly. Oh the
modern writer's, 1--WE know that IhSy
have produe~d only few roundeis.
his pietv, he beats them at their own
irreverence. In all their little DOCKS
Of verse YOU will not find inner oe-
fance Of God than Satan,s. Bias
,phenv depends upon beliefs, ana Is
fading with IT. If anyone doubts THIS,
iet him sit down seriously ana Try 70
think blasphemous thoughts apout
T-hor. think his family Will fEno MN
at the end Of the DAY III STATS Va
some exhaustion
EVEN in the twentieth century pans
of strict utilitarianism our elnlSs
sorelv need the motive power OF SUD
lnGAIS.
Zines without steam. We are Prac
ficar'-but our very practlcality -
proving itself impractlcaole. SllnPiy
from a study of contemporary nIe, one
fs moved to cry aloud the supreme
-3eed for more idealism. We must
have more vision, more hlgh souie9
pursuit of great goals. more eXdlteu
standards. In a word, 1t cannot pc Io9
world needs above all else to sit Win
that motley crowd on the slope "
VTrn Hattin. at the feet of the dream
ing Teacher Of Galnee.
CosmopoIitanisIn Versus Wisdom.
THE sermon on the Mount. which
the Sunday schools are now STUDY lls'
&c not merely as has often been sheer
inpIv said. "only fine theory II Is
the most intensely practical truth 70
which this twentieth century, 1orespeht
and dissatisfied from its MAD chase
after things material, can slne - 'S 100 Cd
tention. Our days fundamental neeu
is for more Of the deeper knoWleQsc
of Iife's eternal verities, whlch ne PC
meath all outward forms and seeming
our real problems are human; anu
beca1Ise human. they are spiritual. we
do not soar to the conquest OF me
dIfficulties by learning how TO puild
air snips. Because we have found tne
North Pole and have Hlaue p doas
rot mean that we have mastered the
riddle of existence. The very sweep
and breadth of our world conceptions
is likely to be a lure. AGAIN 70 quouf
The Tsoer resistance are an admlraOIe
comment on how the large IDEAS
prosper when n is not a question OF
thinking in continents, bun OF uhoer-
standing a few two legged men
For abiding wisdom we do not go
IN the thin and vapid books OF the
travellers who boast of their coshopol-
itanisn1. but to the teachings or an an
VIII
range of his geographical wanderings,
would be counted domiclai; me ne
springs of the spirit were pumped Ny
this graduate of the carpenter Snop.
The noblest truth, still applicable 10
the most modern of urban cond1tlons,
vas enunciated beneath the soft skies
Of SYRIA two thousand years ago. Lev
us go back to Jesus OF Nazarelh ~
learn how to live.
"dind Your Eyer
British colloquialfsm. equivalent
IN the American Look outl' Is Mlno
your eye," This comes cur1ouSly nedI
10 being an epitome of the philosophy
of Jesus upon Judging our fellowmen
IL said. 'Wny beholdest thou the
mote that is IN thy brothers eye, but
considerest not the beam that is II
thine own eye?'' In other words, keeI
our own garien clear of weeds ane
vou viii be too busy to find fault with
vour neighbor's gardening II every
man waited until he was free of faults
himself before cFiticising his nelghpor
this world would be very charitable
That is exactly what we must not do
F1, some mental twist men common!
suppose that ability to point out otnel
PERSONS faults somehow atones 10
their own shortcomings. Thus, by
strange perversion of thinking, the!
substitute consciousness for correct
ness That sort of blindness or one
own deficiencies, and keenness OF Wis
owe fHN1FIQ,hIV
Chou hypocrite!' was the mildes
word that the Gentlest of all teacher
could find to apply to the man wnos
eve was thus deranged- Uncharita
bieness perverts ones mind and nature
THAT thought could he followed cu'
And would be found to run deeper eve
than the impaired faculties which lea
mote in a bro Tiers eye somehow JUS
tines the beam in our own. To b
-hoiIv sane we must be charitable
The Father Philosophy.
High things were brought near b
Jesus He interpreted the great nys
teries of religion in the terms OF eX
ervday. TO him, the awful Jehoval
whose name might not be spoken, wa
1ust a Father, TO be understood bv tn
analogy of the dear. familiar relation
ship. This great passage in the dis
course might be interpreted thus
"Don't be afraid of God. He is vol
Heavenly Father. Yeu wouldn't d.
nv your child anything that is for h
good, nor would you deceive hin
would you? Neither will God.
ask, and you'll get; seek, and you
and. knock, and the door will straie h
wav open. For God is good and gel
erous and loving"
That simple faith was not what IL
rabbits taught. They had devised &
elaborate theology, and had overla
essential religion with Interpretation
burdens too grievous TO be born
Always fundamental religion is in dal
ger of this. The tendency. is to pu:
God FAR off, behind a barrier Of Ger