The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-25

than quotations from it Here they
are:
"QuarreIs over the question, what
shall We do TO get in a place called
Heaven, have in many cases over
Swallowed the big important question
| that seems to have interested Christ
I the question of how to live in TINS
world Christ's greatest concern seems
to have been human conduct. He tried
to teach men how to live equltapiy
with one another He preached the
/ gospel of good Will-of kindness, OF
! charity that we call love and brother
hood He tried to get into the human
heart the conviction that kindness
pays-not in a material way, but IN
the long run when one considers Dullu-
ing up a character or career
Jesus born to Mary and Joseph
the carpenter, came into selflsh. sor-
did. mean world Those in authority
were grafters the church and the
state were given over to greedy, mean.
heartless scoundrels who were making
easy money of the church and steal
ing the people blind With high taxes
Jesus was indignant. His message at
the beginning Of his ministry IS al
rected against temporal evils
For Christ's message IS dlstlnctlS
social-eVen at the last HIS Goluen
Rule is the beginning ana the eIu i, %
all the political progress the world mas
seen for two thousand years II IS III
every reform. it is the basis of every
social or economic gain over ana
since Christ left the world society has
been organized and reOrganiZed, with
always a little gain And the basis o.
the gain has been the restatement o.
the great commandment in terms OF
contemporary life.
"GraduaIIv the world has grasped
one new conception after another OF
the duty of kindness men owe to their
fellows, and the new concept mas re-
organized society. Time after time So
ciety has worn out an old custom
Slavery was the last institution to
crumble thus And when one old GUS
tom has died a new one, gentler. kind
err. more humane has been born in its
place.
.''I am the resurrection and the
life comes across the centuries to this
young century of ours. We too are
beginning TO see the cruelty and in
justice of our own institutions
Long hours for women and child
rem. tenements that breed disease and
perpetuate poverty. wages below
minimum that will maintain a family
Nho1esomely. piling the trades acct
dents and trade sicknesSes upon iaDor
instead upon the products of labor,
tolerating the saloon and the traffic
in women, permitting the strong to
plumber the weak in a score of legal
ways"al these our century must
mend. All these must go down before
the gospel m essage.
leave their fellows here
on earth in a man made he'll OF econo-
mic iniustices and social iniquities.
THE message of Jesus the Carpen- |
ter is social message. Christmas
should be a season of social awaken
ing. of quick ened social conscience, |
of a deepening longing for social jus
tice and a growing desire for social |
responsibility upon every man. ana |
particularly every prosperous man.
who cares for creeds now The |
need now is the spirit II brotherhood |
that is above creeds, that is funda /
mentally the love Christ held in his |
heart for men, coming back into |
mems hearts for their fellows
always His cry is for justice, and
as it enters the hearts of those VINO
can see and hear and feel. they are in
spired to open the way for justice to
those who are denied justice He
che5 no revolution; no retaliation.
no force or vengeance to the poor and
those treated with contumely- He
breaches patience and kindness to
them. and then to those who have the
honor and the power and the glory in
the social order. he breaches justice
with a sternnes and ferVor OF con-
rictiOn.
That's a good place to end this chap
ar with the earnest desire that the
horshts above so well expressed by
Mr. White will be pondered and acted
mon bv these concerned. White is
better preacher than he is politician.
(Chapter LNrII Tuesday,