The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-21

enjoy and understand the mighty
waters who read the poetry and SYM
bolism and mysticism of its message.
The gift of seeing with the inner eye
is one of Gods bounties, to be priced
and increased.
ITO me, the meanest flower that blows
Thoughts that do lie too deep for
tears"
sang the poet All creation is eloquent
with spiritual teaching to the eyes that
have been Spirit-touched. The old
artists loved the grand themes-the
Creation, Paradise, the Fall, the Judg-
ment the Martyrdoms, the Crucifixion-
The newer painters and sculptors have
developed a genius for interpreting
life's common things Thus We have
The AngeIus' speaking a sermon of
reverence such as one does not hear in
Michael Angeles Judgment. Jesus
came among men drawing his lessons
from the life of everyday-from the
growing grain, the wayside, the sheep
fold, the yoke, the coin, the wineskln,
the women at the mill, the sower, the
''Wondrous truths, and manifold as
wondrouS,
God hath written in the stars above;
But no less in the flowers beneath US.
Runs the record of his love-
Everybody has to teach somebody.
So the teachers art of parallels is one
for all people.
A mountain is favorite Scripture
symbol. The Old Version taught us
that the Psalmist said, Il will lift up
mine eyes unto the hills, from whence
cometh my help The newer transla-
ton gives a nobler meaning to the pas
sage, and reveals the help that is high
er than the hills:-''I will lift up mine
eyes unto the mountains: from whence
shall my help come? My help cometh
from Jehovah"
The apt use Of inanimate objects for
illustration makes these objects live
with spiritual meaning. 1 once heard
a preacher dwell upon the real estate
mans sign, Rooms to let, with or
without power and 1 never pass such
a board now without meditating fresh
upon the lives that are with or with |
out power"
Electricity has opened up a vast area
of spiritual suggestions The trolley |
pole that brings down the current for
the car, and the prayer that links God |
with man; the light that burns only !
when its connection is close and unob- |
structed; the dynamo that stores power |
in batteries for future use. as life !
should gather in youth for ages need |
such are the hints that naturally |
suggest themselves in contemplation of
the familiar world of electricity.
The years of man are the looms of God |
let down from the place of the sun
we are weaving ever, till the
mystic web is done.
Weaving blindly, but weaving surely,
each for himself his fate
We may not see how the right side
looks,
We oan only xxaaxa and 4vait
A. G. Chester.
Some objects have become universal
The cross is such. On a hill
outside of San Francisco stands a cross
which may DE seen from the sea; it
once conveyed to me a sudden inf1ood
ing of the whole meaning of Christian
ty's dear sym boil A horse boy. whose
speech I know now, covertly kissing a
stone cross in the ancient ruins of the
Ephesus revealed a fresh sense of the
of that sign of redemp-
ion to millions who are outside of the
range of our ordinary thinking. The
1plifted cross in the hand of great
statue on q hill overlooking the city
Of Budapesth arrested my attention
anew to the old, old truth that the
sity's only hope is the cross of Christ.
First Millet the artist and then
the poet, caught a great
message from an old-world peasant
md his hoe:
Bowed by the weight of centuries, he
leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
Fhe emptiness of ages in his face
And on his back the burden of the
world
Who made him dead to rapture and