Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-01-30

By Edwln R. brown

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/ always think the most perfect de
scription OF happiness that words car
give Is peace on earth, good viii Il
men. Christiandom is almost an
armed camp. yet II holds true, that
Prince OF Peace is the true title OF
the Christ. Angels sang It at His
advent. while peace was His fare
well blessing to the world: Peace !
leave with you, My peace give / unto
lyon. let not your heart be troubled
neither let It be afraid. This peace
however is conditioned upon the
pleasure of men, for there can be
no peace but to men OF good will
Astronomers have never found the
creator OF the material universe. but
the hungry heart OF humanity has
discovered the moral center. 1t is
in Bethlehem's manger cradle. and a
child's face marks It. Civilization
faces toward, 1t the swinging CEN
turtles circle around it; the hands of
child are clasping the earth, and
they are the hands Of God. Twenty
million Sunday scholars together
studied His life last year and are
thinking less of the marvellous works
that He performed, and more and
more of the wonderful life He lived.
counting that the outstanding mir
acle OF all the ages.
Wise men now, as they did two
thousand years ago, are bringing
their gifts for His altar: gold, myrrh,
frankincense, intellect, will, heart
and life. Everywhere the world is
looking unto Jesus for the answer
to the cries of the thirsty spirit,
and for the solution Of the age long
and world wide problems of human
equality Of privilege and opportun-
ity for universal education of mind,
of head, of heart, and an equitable
distribution of the results Of human
labor.
Never did men as CHOW look into
the face of this Elder Brother teach
er and never as now were they as
ready to say, speak Lord, thy SER
wants heareth.
Rudolph Eucken. professor of
philosophy in the university of Jena,
who is now lecturing in this coun-
try on Religion" and PHILOSOPHY"
nays this tribute to Jesus, in his
Problem of Human Life" (p. 1869 |
"A human life is taking the lowliest
and simplest of courses in a remote |
corner of the earth, little needed by
Its contemporaries, and brutally de-
stroyed after short fruition, and
vet this life through the power of
The Spirit that filled it,. has radi-
,ally transformed our human values.
He has rendered inadequate every
hing that has hitherto seemed to
BRING complete happiness; He has
Jet bounds to all merely human
culture; He has not only branded
Ill abandonment to mere enjoyment
is frivolity; He has reduced all hui
nan life, as hitherto understood, to
he category of mere world Such
,aluations grip us and refuse to
cave us even after we have aban-
loned all ecclesiastical dogmas and
PRACTICES. So that life sits in con-
inuous judgment over the world"
To give the Christian nations Of
he earth a knowledge of the Saw
or, protestant christianity in addi-
ion to the vast sum put into the
ONE work, as reported in the Mis-
ionary Review of the World, raised
money and bestowed labor as fol-
ows for 1912: Home income of for
ign missionary societies $30.4O4,- 8
OF; income from the fields 81, 902,-
Sc; total protestant missionaries in
he field 24,092; total number Of :
alive workers 1899; number of !
ommunicants 2,644.17O; total adj T
erents including communicates g. II
55.425: added last year (incom- 5
lete) .212,635. Each of these items !
hows a very substantial increase =
yer the year 1911.