The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
7TT-1 FAMILIAR old story tells o1
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helping somebody" That
IL a mark of the Lord Jesus. AS we
look back over three months studies
in the Gospel of Matthew, we find him
on every page helping somebody. The
character of the Master should char
acterize his friends; the bebst Chris
tan uniform is a habit of humble
helpfulness. The best review of these
lessons is a notation of the ways in
which their receipts have been prac-
ticed. Christian Koreans have a habit
of committing a Bible passage to men,
DRY by going out and translating it
into an action. The very Korean
phrase for being disciple means to
''do the doctrine
The weary world wants helping.
The varied needs of mankind smite a
sensitive spirit to compassion. Dimly,
men see that their blind groupings have
God for their goal. Nobody can sit
IN the school of Christ without hav-
ing q sympathy for all forms of out
reaching after the Infinite. For the
answer to all questionings and riddles
is Just-God. AS William Herbert Car
ruth has beautifully expressed it in
his poem, Each in His Own Tongue;
"a fire mist and a planet,
A crystal and cell,
"A jelly fish and a saurian,
And caves where the cave men
dwell;
Then a sense of law and beauty
And a face turned from the clod,-
Some call it Evolution,
And others call it God.
ga haze on the far horizon,
The infinite tender sky,
The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields,
=. And the wild geese sailing high;
And all over upland and lowland
The charm of the goldenrod,-
Some of us call it autumn,
And others call it God.
''Like tides on crescent sea beach,
When the moon is new and thin,
Into our hearts high yearnings
Come yelling and surging in:
Come from the mystic ocean
Whose rim no foot has trod,-
Some of us call it Longing,
And others call it God.
"a picket frozen on duty,
A mother starved for her brood,
Socrates drinking the hemlock,
And Jesus on the rood;
And millions who. humble and name
less,
Some call it Conservation,
And others call it Cod
lies MiserabIes.''
What a procession of sad and suf-
fering people march through these few
pages of Matthew's chronicle. There
time of Jesus than may be found now
in a Christian country. 1t is almost
impossible to collect in North America
any such group as gathered about the
Helper as he walked with plying eye
through the crowded streets of the
cities of Palestine. His Influence has
expressed itself in this and in hospi-
tails and asylums and orphanages and
schools for every kind of need and
suffering. Thanks to the importation
of his love into the breasts of millions,
most persons who read these lines Will
never witness such scenes as rent
Christ's heart.
Let us count the outstanding cases
which the Sunday schools have been
studying during the quarter now end
ing. There was the ruler whose
miracle mirroring the Punishment of
the sting of death from countless
homes since. That house of sorrow
was turned into house of joy by the
entrance of Jesus. Hard by stands
the pathetic figure of the woman with
an issue of blood, made bold by
great suffering, and rewarded for her
faith by healing. The two blind men
and the demon possessed dumb man
afforded other opportunities Tor
Christ's love to express itself. Then
came the Canaanite woman, daring
much because believing greatly, and
getting the boon of health for her
daughter because she read Alright the
Well might he send back to the
troubled Baptist, as proof of his Mes
Biahshlp, the message, The blind re-
ceiva their sight, and the lame walk,
the iepers are cieansed, and the deaf
hear, and the dead are raised up, and
the poor have good tidings preached to
them."
The Hungry and the Weary.
rhorwaIdsen's great statue of the
Christ has caught him in characteristic
pose: for as the gentle face looks
down. with compassionate eye, he is
saving, come unto me, ali We that
labor and are heavy laden. and I will
give YOU rest" That might we'll be
the golden text" of the Quarter; it
typides the attitude Of the Master. He
had compassion upon the multitude
for she saw them as sheep with the
fleece torn Off, bleeding and unable to
THAT high ground was not always
taken by the disciple. Like you and
me, they were often bothered by the
mob. When the hungry hordes
thronged the Teacher, they would have
sent them away. Not SO the Master.
He made the multitude be seated on
two separate occasions, while, by
miraculous multiplication of loaves
and fishes, he fed four thousand and
ave thousand respectively. He is life's
great rnultiplier, taking our little
nesses and making them great. From
his hands hearts are fed; and today his
mystical power sustains an uncounted
host of doors and eDdurers; and this
present miracle is no less than the
ancient one which the multitudes be-
held on the slopes by blue Galilee.
A Great Mans Friend.
The capacity for making friends
who would last always characterized
Jesus. The greatest army in the world
today is made up of men and women
and children who would gladly do and