The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-03

persist IN their TaC1a1 lnf6Sr1Iy III I'LL
lands and despite all vicissitudes.
Israel is a torch lighted by God, and
he has not let any of the hercest blasts
of history blow 1t out. Sometimes IT
has been trampled into enbers, and
scattered widely, and the fragments
extinction; but the FIRE still burns. ana
from 1t has come the Light to tighten
many nations.
One who has Travelled In the lands
with which the Bible deals finds him
self in the grip of a great conviction
concerning the Jews. In them he be-
holds the clearest attestetion of the
truth of Old Testament prophecy. He
sees them living, and at present IN
growing power, in the lands Of their
former exile, though their ancient OPP
pressors have been gone from the
has been within a generation a strange
recrud escence of the vitality of the
huge Jewish population. Long in pow
erty and misery, they are now lifting
up their heads in prosperity, are build
| ing great schools, teaching their sons
and daughters the English language,
and making ready to profit by the re-
Mobilization of MesopoteInia, through
the irrigation project OF Sir William
Willcocks. In Palestine also, although
opposed by the Turkish government,
the Jews are steadily increasing in
numbers and power. Link these facts
with the cognate fact that the Jews
are incr easing in might in America
and Europe, and that the archaeol-
ogists are making strange new discov-
cries in Samaria and Jerusalem con-
corning the history of the Chosen
People, and one is bound to pause and
ask, What do these things mean r.
Surely, there Is one persisting divine
purpose running through all the course
of history.
: The Religion for Men Who SIN.
| In the contemplative PHILOSOPHERS Of
the east, there is much that is attrac-
tive to a speculative mind; and not a
few Europeans have been 80 far recre-
ant to the teachings of history and
their own racial Inheritance as to ac-
cept these as their religion, discard
ing Christianity. All other consider
ligions fail because they do not pro-
vide pardon for mans sins. In the
summer days Of thoughtlessness these
vague teachings may please, but in the
stress and struggle and sin of real l1V-
ing the human heart cries aloud for
forgiveness. Like Israel of old. men
are still prone to slip away from their
great allegiance, and to seek false
gods. An ever-present reality, with
which all sound philosophy and his
tory must reckon, Is the huge fact of
SIN. You can not explain yourself,
ton of neighbors called the world, un-
less you take sin into account That
Is why we must have tender-heart-
ed Father God, who is 'slow to anger
and plenteous in mercy"
Russia's foreign policy is often
pointed to as an instance of indomit-
able patience, and men marvel at this
large mindedness But what of the pa
thence of Jehovah, who has waited mil
,lenniums for the fulf1lment of his pur-
L. \ g. % l. 9e.
dering children? There is nothing
else like It in the universe; it can only
be measured by the distance from the
east to the west The forbearing heart
of God is enough to break a human
heart Of adamant.
For the love of God is broader
Than the measures of mans mind
And the heart Of the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind"
A Hope for the Heartsick.
This is the promise which Hose
holds out. Despite all the backsliding
of Israel Jehovah would yet abund
| antly pardon. That is the word 70
the sore hearts of men. Everybody VIII
at all knows himself, knows that hi
deepest need is forgiveness. He want
! that peace which only right rela
lions with God can impart. AL that h
has will a man give for this. The re
I Of sin is the tragedy above all othe
tragedies. We are Solicitous about on
another's earthly estate, and we con
graduate our neighbor when forum
. comes to him, and sympathize whe
losses befall, but we seldom wonde
about his real welfare. the state c
his spirit. els 1t well with thy soul
is the deepest question that friend ma
presume to ask of friend. And to hol
out, tactfully and lovingly, the hop
| W. IA fhA r1iYnQX of HOSAa'S rr0nhe
4 cy is the noblest Office that man ca
render to man.
Many a mother. who is not wise
: the worlds lore, yet sees clearly tina
transcending all the high ambitions {
her children for themselves. Is the in
portance OF a clear and vital religion
life. She would rather have her sor
n cody than great. And many a wit
carries a sore heart beneath the sill
and furs which her husbands gres
prosperity has bought for her. becaus
q she knows that he is slipping ava
a from his first love for the Lord. tt
: honors and Difference and wealth an
d position which are his are Of lit
Z side of the failure of his spirltui
= health. All lesser blessings are of sma
J, moment as compared with being rigl
with God.
e. Honey From the Rock.
!. To draw sweetness from adversit
songs from sorrow. comfort from PAL
ministry from misery, is the divtI
possibility of mortal As we study tn
agonizing heart-cry Of Hosea, callir
II his nation back to God, we realize Il
ii heights to which man can soar. haN
seen men Jest while the very skin WI
II being cut from their bodies and NAL
ii laughter over the pain that rack'
| their frames; women wear snilir
faces when their bodies are In tormen
| II and It is common for persons to hi(
| II grief beneath gaiety. But the heigl
iii gained by Hosea is sublime, putting
II shame our ignoble complainings ar
whimperings. In his book the thr'
great human passions blend in or
| heart-stricken strain-love OF HON
| which had been devastated: love
country, which was rushing on Il