The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08
Governors Versatile Secretary
in a New Role.
His Defense of Immortality a.
Classic.
REPLIED TO AN AGNOSTlC
Shows That Science Proves His
Contention.
No Such Thing as "a Goddess
Woman

ago In the Wichita Eagle IN reply te
a correspondent of atheistic tenden-
cies. 1t follows:
The Goddess Woman.
To the Editor: In that very interest
ing part of your paper, called the
Forum" a contributor signing himself
M has justin ade a statement which
suggests protest.
Discussing the so-called ''Unendins
Woman Question" he holds that a riV-
al contributor, who writes over the
name. "A Bachelor Mould immedi-
atelv and publicly apologize to Cod
less Women" living and dead, for GER
tain remarks made concerning the PIE
tv of their sex.
do not think this article by Mr.
..NI,, or the thought included IN IT,
o,,ebt to be allowed to travel far WITH
out challenge. -;,,,o
have seen what the irresponsible
would lightly call GOO fors ,aFe.a
Woman and some women who nave
cultivated an effort to not believe IN
ca. hI,t TO a fair and sane mind, a
Goddess Woman is utterly 1mpossl-
bic. 1o,;a,,a
that the color, blue. existed. but II
dos At that time it was the PROUD
ccIor worn by our soldiers and sailors
ond marines. 1t is now, as it was tnen'
in our flag and in the flowers OF the
field. 1t is the color of the SKY When
~ is fairest and of the deep ocean
-, ~ iS calmest 1t was all green
nv friend. He was simply color
blind.
know a lady who never heard a
note of music, but she is not music
1ass she GOES into ecstacies of delight
when she sees the wheels of machinery
moving rapidly. The rhythm and har-
Incnv of their motion eXaltS her soul
and energies her whole body. To her
the machinist is a Paderewski; the
inventor a Mozart. She is simply
At one time I did not believe either
in eternity or infinity. 1 could not, or
rather did not, comprehend ETERNITY
and infinity are verities notwithstand-
ing.
subject with a friend who was a hunch-
back He told me the story OF the
stick L set my thoughts in motion.
I gave them free rein to run wild
through the starry plains of moon
less sky. They searched diligently but
n, vain. for the frontier of creation.
once 1 thought 1 had it, and built
great Chinese wall to encircle what L
thought was the sum total of things.
I stood on top of it to be certain that
nothing was left outside. 1t really
seemed as if everything was
outside. I then realized that in
creation the center is every
where and the frontier is nowhere.
I had not moved an inch, but my mind
grasped the comforting truth-that it
is much harder to imagine the begin
nings and ends of time and space than
il is to comprehend infinity and eter-
nifty.
A raindrop makes me ponder on this
subject now. 1t fell upon the hot pave
ment at the side of my hammock, a
moment ago. This bright little child
OF a summer shower vanished quickly
and left not a trace of its recent ex-
fstence behind it. 1 was startled. eff
there is an end to that drop of rain
I thought, why may not there be an
end to Mr.. MS estimable woman?"
The life of my doubts was ephemer-
al Philosophy-that sublime friend
of those who are seeking after truth
came eagerly to my rescue. 1t revealed
to me the processes of resurrection. 1t
explained to me the secret of immor-
tality and the miracle of indestructi-
bility. 1t has shown me how cosmical
forces, ever obedient to the will Of
God, originally lifted that tiny little
raindrop from the surface of the deep
and how they are now taking it back.
through the very same medium. if not
over the same course, o the bosom of
its parent-the ocean.
Example of the Ice.
Annihilation is an absurdity. That
flake of ice that was in my tumbler a
minute ago is gone. An hour ago it
was nearly as big as a mans hand. |
Only the travail of it's solidity has end
ed.
There was a time when 1 could not
comprehend that a cake of ice was
the product of the blazing sun in the
heavens. I can hardly believe yet that
the great orb of day formed those lit
tie CRYSTALS of frost that bit our toes
IN, hn M
If a snowflake could speak, it would
probably argue, as stupidity as Mr.. M
does. that it is sunless, but the scien- |
ti1c truth of its creation would sur
vive to prove, within a few days per-
haps, by some babbling brook. that the
sun which melts is the sun which con-
geals-the creator and best friend OF
the frost-fiake.
A famous man tells of a heroic
little jasmine around which house
would have a sunless future and must |
perish. But it didn't. 1t was a plant |
of courage and of hope. 1t did not be- |
lieve it was sunless because the light |
of the sun was lost to it. 1t knew |
that the heat of the sun remained. |
That brave little Jasmine kept the faith. |
1t pushed it's pale little stem upward |
to a crack in a board. 1t went on |
to another crack. and on, and on. un- |
til it had penetrated through the cracks |
and knotholes of eight thieknesses of |
boards, and finally basked and bloom |
ed again in the presence of the SUN.
If the estimable friends of Mr.. M" /
have the faith. the courage and taej
hope of that delicate little jasmine !
they can soon and easily re-enter the |
presence of God. They are not God !
less because they cannot see God any |
more than the jasmine was sunless e /
cause IT did not see the sun
The Universal Gravitation.
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