The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-19

a heaven or hell" Hard indeed would
have been the lot of jeremiah, had
he been like so many persons, inter
eSted chiefly in the non essential
things of life. Some men resemble
the average tourist, who goes about
the world blind to the real sights and
interests of various lands. and chiefly
concerned in the table fare and the
lodging accommodations of the var
ious hotels and steamships they meet.
1t is hard for an observant person
not to feel something akin to con-
tempt for the majority of globe-trot-
ters whom he has met about the
earth.
jeremiah was a big man, by inside
measuremen t. He had a self-contain-
ed life, and he could wait. No man is
called to the prophets office who is
not possessed of unlimited patience:
for the true prophet cannot hope to
see his message fulfilled within the
span of an earthly life. Truth needs
the eternal years, which are hers
for the working out of her purposes.
But the exalted sense of the ultimate
victory Of truth suStains the prophet
amid all adversities. He has pledged
his souls allegiance to her, and
come life or come death, it is all the
same to him; he cannot fail or be-
tray truth. The sufferings he endures
in her service are sweetened by the
consciousness that he is fulfilling the
highest destiny Of mortal, and that he
is in fellowship with all the free
spirits of all time. DID not jeremiah
see Christ's day afar off. and exult?
What matter, I or they,
Mine or another's day,
So the right word be said
And life the sweeter made?
Ring bells. in far-off steeples.
The JOY of unborn peoples;
Sound, trumpets, far-off blown,
Your triumph Is my own"
When King Seeks Out Prisoner.
This present triumph the servant of
truth has: high and low must be
judged by the word of truth that is
IN his mouth. In all crises the man
with the word Of truth takes rank
above all others; even at the recent
the representative of religion, from
whose hands the king received his
crown, seemed for the moment great
er than the king himself. The corona
ton brought freshly home to Great
Britain the religious Significance of
her greatest national experiences. So
in his prison jeremiah was sought out
by King Zedekiah, and asked If there
was any word from Jehovah. Prison
had not taken away the prophe cts
loyalty to his message: there seems
to be even an added bruSqueness in
the answer he returns declaring that
Zedekiah should be delivered into the
hands of the king of Babylon. The
prophet may be imprisoned, his books
may be burned, but his message still
holds good; the word of the Lord
abideth forever"
The last act of the drama has open
ed This pusillanimous king, who
whimperingly begs Jeremiah to pray
for him, is the last of Davids royal
line to sit upon the throne. The stiff
necked nation must now learn in Bit
terness of exile the lesson which it
would not learn from It's prophets
the lesson which still our own proph-
cts are speaking to this later day:
Hold ye the Faith-the Faith our
fathers sealed US;
Whoring not with visions-overwis
and overstale.
Except We pay the Lord
Single heart and single sword.
Of your children in their bondage
shall He ask them treble-talei"