The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08


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philosophy instead of vanity should
possess US.
| grave is continually happening tC
them above the grave. Every mid
dle-aged woman has seen her body &C
! to the grave a dozen times without
giving a moments serious thought to
the matter. The body I came to
| Wichita in is as dead as the bodies OF
Socrates, Abraham or Hannibal. and
yet 1 can hardly realize that 1 am
physically not the same fellow 1 was
| twenty-five years ago. But L do not
mourn for that. I realize that death
| must precede life in the order of ma
| ture. Until the planted seed dies the
| golden bounty of harvest cannot bless
| and prosper the inhabitants of the
Take hope. Mr.. NJ To be sure we
are all in long burial procession, but
| we are not alone. The earth itself
| is going to it's own funeral 1t is fol-
| lowing headlong in the wake of the
sun to it's grave in Hercules. Jupiter,
| which is 155,000,000 leagues distant
| from u.s. is moving in the same direc-
| ton. It's destiny is precisely the same
| as ours and in the aeons of the flu
| ture both will lie down together In
| death. The epilogue of all worlds vii!
be the same in substance; God wllled
| their death.
We shall never be without a God.
Never will we be Goddess. He will be
al the death of all the worlds and
constellation of worlds. He will be at
the birth of the new worlds that will
! be resurrected from the tombs of the
old worlds. He is continually watch
full of them. The sentinel he placed
over the earth fourteen thousand years
ago will be changed twelve thousand
years hence. Vega is on its way to the
north, travelling billions of miles, and
| =,
ment God has willed it to be. 1t will
be the beacon light and celestial light
house for those unthouCht of mariners
who will glide over the ocean, or sail
through the air, three hundred and
fifty generations after our time.
When the earth will have been swal-
lowed up by the sun, and when the
sun will have been swallowed up by
Hercules; when the gorgeous cOsmic
tragedy has ended, and the din of cata-
clystic pandemonium has ceased; when
the horn of Gabriel will have sounded
the long looked for summons of the
resurrection morn, and the fulfillment
, of prophecy is at hand, hen, Mr.. IN, -
may find himself side by side with his
so-called Goddess women-in the chaos
and ruins and cinders of dead planets,
and systems and constellations-re-
spending with them to the solo of the
angel, and quickening with them, under
the potent touch of the hand of God.
My friend, M talks glibly of comets
and hopes to see the day when the
that blessings and dreams cannot
change the course of events.
The Mothers Blessing.
In Hard Times Dickens gives us
character like M" in one Thomas
Gradgrind. He is not new to us. 1t
will be a sorry day for humanity when
the doctrine of the inefficiency of a
blessing will prevail I do not believe
that any mother ever gave a farewell
blessing to a departing son that did
not change the course of his life. The
oretica11y, what is destined to happen,
will occur, from the viewpoint of our
grosser thought, but I do not believe
that it is in the Nature of God to so
steel the heart of boy or girl that a
mothers blessing cannot make an i'm
preston upon it. Nobdy can pursue
the study of psychological science to
that end. Dreams have often changed
the course of events not only in the
lives of individuals. but in the lives of
nations, as well. Had Caesar listened
to the dream of Calphurnia-as he
was once inclined to do-the history
and politics, and geography of the
world would be different.
Get right with God. Mr.. NJ. He is the
same always. He does not rule for
my cathedral, for Henry Wallenstein's
synagogue, for the barracks of the
SdlNaLlOn Army, TOT. the canvas camp
of the Free Methodist, for the Arbor-
ial temple of the Hottentot or for the
mosque of the Mohammedan alone. He
rules for all. He was the God of Abra-
ham, Solomon, David, and Daniel; He
was the God of Pytha goras. Socrates,
Zeno and Epictetus; He was the God
OF Jerome, Augustine, Dominic and
Bartholomew; He was the God of 10y
OLA Bunyan, Swedenborg and Knox;
He was the God of Plus the Tenth
Edward the Seventh, William of Ho-
henzollern and Theodore Roosevelt.
One party may visualize Him, another
spiritualize Him, one may idealize
Him and another may materialize
Him, but He is the same God, one and
Interchangeable. infinite and eternal.
The humblest may approach him as
easily as the most exalted. and the
wandering soul that is farthest away
from Him is not outside of His reach,
or of His Mercy. or of His forgiveness.
There is solace in communion with
Him and there is peace and warmth
and comfort and satisfaction in the
soul that comprehends Him
Don't say that you are Goddess.
DAVID D. LEAHY.