The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-22


sible for town that stands on hill
to escape notice. Nor do people light
lamp and cover ii over, but they
put it on the lamp stand. where it
gives light TO everyone in the house.
In the same way, let the light shine
before the ewes of your fellowmen, so
that, seeing your good actions, they
will praise your Heavenly Father.
The Divine Paradox.
This platform inverts the worlds
order. The difference between the
Christianity which Jesus presented
and that some of his followers are try
give the matter thought. Some of US
are engaged in demonstrating that
Christianity is profitable for the pres
ent world; that after all it makes US
like other people, only little better.
We take to squaring ourselves by the
worlds rules, simply trying to be a
little more square. Therein we have
reversed the order laid down by the
Teacher. He constructed an entire
Iy new platform. In the passages quot
ed his real socialism, that will stand
all tests, there is Utopia, Utopia that
will persist through eternities. There
is true new thought up to which the
highest philosophers have not as yet
attained. There is a Christian science,
that passes comprehension. and a
higher life that breathes the raref1ed
! atmosphere of heaven.
Jesus stressed the light of the spir-
| lC.
| who was known as one of the kings
of finance. The great railway mag
mates came to him to consult and to
secure financial strength. Every bank
er in the country knew his name. He
was wealthy. charitable, honored. The
world envied him his apparent riches.
| Now that he has passed away, leav-
| ing thirty million dollars to religion,
to philanthropy, the world has sud-
denly discovered that the real wealth
/ nP f6n ~ IL
lions, or in his powerful relation
ships, but IN the deep flowing, sim
pie life of the spirit. His custom it
was to gather family and guests daily
knew best declared that for fifty
years he had daily taken the first
hours of every morning apart with his
| Bible, for a quiet time. Now that he
Kendall was a millionaire in the
spirit, a millionaire after the model
prescribed by Jesus.
People With Tang.
Every manufacturer and merchant
| is trying to put on the market an ar
ticle that shall be different Jesus
designed that his people should be
different" people. Instead of teach
ing ways of conforming, and instead
of telling his friends how to get along
with the world, he boldly avowed that
they should be different from the
that, said he. is the mission of all
members of the new party. To be
salt means 70 have tang. To be a per-
son with a flavor. Most life lacks
| just this. The tastelessness of life
is what causes so many to weary of
| it. 1t is the rare person who comes
| into a community with individuality
and originality and force. and all that
goes to make up personality. Such
a person, however, flavors the COM
munity. There was a New England
girl marooned in one of those poverty
smitten, characterless neighborhoods
which drive their youth to the city,
and she brought to the community an
entire redemption of its life. She in
stood for culture and refinement and
religion. She gathered the boys and
girls about her and disciplined them
| into membership in the party which
Jesus founded long ago on the slope
of Kurn Hattin. Such as she impart
the SAVIOR of God to all whom they
| touch in the course of a day.
In his quaint volume, 1.-THE None
such Professor" William Seeker says,
"Cicero complains Of Homer that he
taught the gods to live like men, but
| Christ teaches men to live like God"
| That is test that Jesus applies. He
J bids men live such a life that the
world, beholding, will think of the
Father in Eeaven. Members of the
| that their good works may be glori-
fed, but only that Source of the works
may have honor. It is a first ob1i-
cation of every member Of the party OF
| Jesus so to live that whatever else the
world thinks about him, it will think
first Of all IF his God.
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