The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-18


nlD1 and deaf 10 the ideals which had
+ once been as life Itself to them They
nave perhaps mastered fortune. but
they have lost their souls Hottest pos
session Even 50 these returned Jews
had found il good business TO make
alliances with the heather What a
descent from the first sincerity OF their
purposes when they had refused help
from their contaminated brethren IN
building As Is so often the case with
Z the practical man. his short-sighte1-
ness leads him 70 steps which really
defeat his purpose Had these Jews
scanned . larger horizon they would
have recalled that they were ToIuu-
tari}y adopting the method which an
ancient Assyrian corQueror had used
70 destroy the national integrity Of the
Jews They were taking heather wives
and thus losing their integrity as z ma
The tendency 10 conform 10 ones
environment and associates IS as com
mon temptation as mortal meets.
World-lness always sits seductively at
the door OF the church. and usually
she : invited inside Be We not con
formed, bur be We transformer i the
word for all chosen people Some one
says that the church Is IN the world.
which is her privilege. but when the
world gets into the church. that Is her
peril
Cleaning Up the Town
An evangelist has come 70 town
Why = this2 Did we not have an
evangelist last year, Is another re-
rival necessary Alas and alas 50
il IS There are few churches or com
munirles that co not need frequent re-
Vixing- Jerusalem. which within the
memory OF living man had witnessed
2 great religious celeDratI21- was now
sorely in need OF another spiritual ex-
perience-
she was in such bad case that il
took all the courage Of this man OF
books 10 meet the emergency. Ezra
had grip upon the law That was
MS characteristic He was not the sort
OF evangelist whose stock n trade Is
sentimental stories and shopworr
B4ous pErasaolcgy- Emotional appeals
would not DO for Jerusalem. so Ezra
laid down the law. the stern and i'm
movable law OF Jehovah which the /
1apsed city was violating
Sugar or Salt2
Some folks cant see Why pfety does
Tot atone Tor law1essuess- Coatesvflfe I
attempted 70 justify herself IN the eyes
OF ths world BY pointing 10 her
especial Righteousness The world said 4
IN your midst But C0ateSville had 4
not religion enough for that N this
extraordinarily perverted and danger +
Gus separation between righteousness 4
and loyalty TO law lies z deep pariI Of 4
our modern times The Jews observed i
their temple ritual but they kept
heather wives Ezra understood that +
his mission was not 20 Be sugar 70 I
make himself agreeable TO people. bat
70 b salt, 70 purify and preserve So
ctetg- 50 ne drove the terrors Of the
Law into their consciousness until
something like ar epidemic Of fear and f
remorse seize7 them His note was
borrowed BY sam Jones who was for
ever urging people 70 --quir your mean
ness
Tne sentinen-alis- would say that
Ez-as demand that these Jews should
ral5EGEssF their wives involved 2 hard
ship - i did Likewise il Is always
q HARDSHIP when tte thief Is deprived
q his income Il i worse hardship.
however. to his family when ne Is sent
10 fail Whoever said that the wages
Of sin should be anything else than
har62 To break the law always brings
and cfter trouble 70 the in
-ocert a. well as 70 the guilty TIE
church creates havoc IN
some quarters YET q clean church )
WORTH all that i costs NOBODY dcah-
lloET thai Ezra's stern measures we're
the means Of preserving the life OF the
Jews. and IN saving the returned exiles
from 2 moral deterioration that would
perhaps have amounted 70 the ext5nc-
ton Of the Jewish people