The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-06

general disposition to appeal to super
stition and prejudice and bigotry, rath-
er than to facts and Scripture. We
must reverse the lever in order to at
tain the good results-in order to see
eye to eye.
What All Can Agree To.
All agree that the world needs the
Divine blessing! All agree that we
have been laboring under a mistake in
supposing that education and civiliza-
ton are alone necessary to secure hui
man happiness. We perceive that the
greater the civilization the greater is
the unrest; and the broader the edu-
cation the greater are the suggestions
and opportunities for taking selfish ad-
vantage of others.
All are agreed that only the later in
ventions, telephones, etc., and our
modern and costly police precautions
make it possible to live In civilized
lands and that, despite all these, muir
ders are a hundred-fold what they
were fifty years ago. In those days q
murder would be detailed and discuss
ed for a year. Now we give little heed
to several reported in each days news
papers Thousands are executed, other
thousands are imprisoned for life and
we pay little heed-so gradually have
we become accustomed to these hor-
rors of our civilization and education.
mission influences. with Sunday
Schools, Y. NJ. C. AS. with courts,
Juvenile and superior, and yet they in
crease. We penalize the carrying of
weapons and bombs and wisely pro-
hibit inflammatory speeches; and the
better informed know that Christen-
dom is like powder magazine which
some unlucky friction between the
classes may any day explode.
All Hopes Really One.
Admitting that all mankind are i'm
perfect, born in sin and shapen in
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sent to the doctrine of Total Deprav-
ity-that there is nothing good in any
man; or in all men. Each one who
prays forgive US our trespasses as we
forgive others should concede that
others. as well as himself, would pre-
fer righteousness to sin, if the envi-
ronment were different-if his appetite
were not so perverse, IL his will power
whether Jew, Mohammedan, Catholic,
Free Mason or Protestant, do we not
all really desire the one thing? And
do we not admit, after centuries of
endeavor along different lines, that
God alone can send us the aid which
the whole world SO greatly needs?
We do!
Let US now formulate this "desire
Of all nations from those Holy Scrip
lures which we all acknowledge. Let
US see that it is exactly what we all
have been looking and praying for
under different names: 1t is the King
dom of God:-the Kingdom of Allah!
Its rule is to be under the whole
heavens however heavenly or spirit
ual the great ruler will be Daniel vii,
I'D Under its beneficent and uplifting
influence the glorious result will be
that Gods will shall be done on earth
as completely as it is now done in
heaven This is exactly what the
Scriptures declare-that sin and igno-
rance VIII be done away; that the
knowledge of the glory of Gods char
acter will I'LL the whole earth. 1t
means strong government exer-
cised for the restraint of sin and for
the freeing of mankind from slavery
to sin-the slavery of inherited weak
nesses entailed by Adams disobedi-
ence. The great Heavenly King, the
Son of David, who will do these things,
according to the Law and the Proph-
cts, will have many titles indicating
various features of his greatness. He
shall be called Wonderful, Counselor,
the mighty Elohim, the Prince of
Peace, and the Father (life giver) of
eternal life. (Isaiah tx, 81.