The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

who had met his beloved to him IL
seemed an affront that the petty traI-
hc of everydayness should go on as
usual IN the presence of such su-
nreme hour as loves reunion AL
lowing for the poets fancy II ooes
still seem to all of US who are look
ers-on at life that men are a OIL too
deeply engrossed in trivialities, WITH
out taking account of the supreme
yerities 1t is wholesome and eouca-
tionaI for US to think about the
themes that are elemental and eter-
nal.
We spend much gray matter upon
men; but little upon man; yer 70 ~
know man is to possess the KEY 70
men Here comes a sunday school
lesson. in this new years course, car
ing us back to the very genesis u
things to the creation of man upon
The earth. Here is large room for
deem thinking Without going on INTO
any of the alluring by-paths Wnlcn
curious speculation opens on ever
side let us look to the theme eleineh-
tally to see if we may not learn no"
to hold our heads higher
The High Birth.
Nowadays we are crowding out OF
our dictionaries such old phrases a.
we are all high born for we are inc
creation of God, who calls Hlrnsel-
rather. That is the first big truth.
Man is begotten of God HOW lpns
God took over the TASK, an o+ SIRE.
methods He used, we are not sure
neither are we sure of the most fun-
damentaI facts concerning the GRE
alton of any child. But we are
sured that this thinking, senuenl'
1nasterful creation, called man, above
ali the rest of the natural oroer' is
of God.
.o CO ereat and am so
tremble to think of you, World
at all; TO-
And yet. when I said my prayers To-
A wbisner inside me seemed to say.
Won are more than the Earth' tnoush
you are such a dot
you can love and think, and the Earth
cannot
We face the two supreme soNea
eighties: the sovereignty OF Gou ~
man. which is the first ana aplolns
nna final ALLEGIANCE; and the soVer
oion+1- of man over all other credteo
things Man has mastered earn i;, ar
dir and fire and water ana All LNAtiS
creatures: and at that he seems 70 ce
- enterine into the beginning OF ms :
1o,,,fnion This is the day OF man
mastery of the world. me ie;hg !
the first chapter of Genesis ,It its j
written larger every uaS' ~
dinvine implication: ,-o man j
land God said. Let US make - - | i
in our image, after our hhehess, anb {
let them have dominion over tne " ~ !
80 sea and over the birds OF tns :
oi ~ and over the cattle, anu !
80 ali the earth, and over every
oraen;ne thing that creepeth upon IL.
eerth. And God created man III ~
own image. in the image OF eIou 80 100 | i
ted he him; male and Ieniaie
he them" a+ made !
,,asters. Man did not win ms own !
sovereignty. 1t was conIerreu ~ :
hin, bv the Supreme sovereign, ~ :
-, 1,o+onlasrn self-lifted above all other !
Y,rptonIasms. is man, but a son of the
richest, born to the purple me III
SDiTed story gives man place % t
aroinence which all false mythologles c
and sciences would deny to him. r
The Family Likeness. G
Since most of US agree that man Y
did not stray up INTO ms PIC -,,t ,
the earth from some lower order, put
Was set upon his feet by a divine
viii we are ready to go on to the
next proof of his unique character C
which is that he bears the fanny
1tl-aness of God. In addition to ex- i
arcisinp god-like sway over all the
resi- of creation, man reveals MS
origin by the spirit that is in hlm- o
He proves his heredity by ms capa- t
CITY for divine things, by his power
Of T.,
can commune with Jehovah Himself
nv his divinely- begotten compassion {
for his fellow beings, and by his mex Il
ting11ishable eagerness for religion.
-There is plenty of old Adam in man,
hut there is more of God in him. The
wise words of ST. Augustine still hold
true 80 Lord, Thou hast made US
for Thyself; and our hearts cannot g
rest until they rest in Thee
The Young eagles lust for the up {
per air no more clearly diferentiates
him from the barnyard fowl than :.
mans spiritual aspirations set him
above all other living creatures. I
Shakespeare cried, What a piece of
work is man! How noble in reason,
how infinite in faculty! In action how .
like an angel, in apprehension how =
like a god IL
Mans Place and Program. ]
The ancient theology which took Il
a gloomy view of God and man has j
been outgrown in this day We have G
ne loom in our thinking for the be- t
lief that God is glorified by human t
suffering, and displeased by human p
HAPPINESS. When man was created o
he was set in a garden. Mark that: c
not a desert, but a garden. A place II
of pleasure was the divine plan for c
mans habitation; we get the word
paradise from the original garden.
An anonymous poet has glimpsed this Z
truth and its every day application: =
s.Dear Lord, since thou didst make the
earth. Z,
Thou mad'st it not for grief, but mirth. =
Therefore 1 will be glad,
And let who will be sad. is
For if I lead my life with care. .
What profits me the buXom air. n
And what the sweet birds choir n