The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

| oulo 90 as IL pleaSeS. Ease, lux
| ~. pride, appetite, all would be. CIV
Il free rein. But there is still an
| Their self in every one of US; a more
| less robust spiritual mindedness,
| hich cries the slogan, L keep my
ody under This higher nature sets
| affections upon things above. 1t
as the wisdom to perceive that to be
| arnally minded is death. The unre-
| trained qualification of the natural
| npulSeS means by every law, deter
| he symmetrical and the ever growing
| ives are those which yield obedience
| this higher self. Only mans better
iature can make better man: In
] he fullest possible meaning of the
| words, To be spiritually minded is
| .-fe.''
They who live for the minute are
| preparing poorly for eternity.
| One sound indictment of mere
worldly pleasure is that they do not
| asst. A mans pleasure in spree is
pleasure in his family, or in a book,
| or in a friendship, or in a noble ser
vice. is abiding. The delight of sur
| passing a neighbor in dress or in
house or in entertainment-at best a
dubious joy-lives but an hour. The
| charge which the Book of honest phil
oSophy makes against merely mater
lal pleasures is that they do not last.
They pass away in the using. But
whatsoever is spiritual abides forever.
THE Great White Way of Broad
way is one type of pleasure. 1t con-
sists in seeing and in being seen
Glare and glitter, ''smartness' rather
than wisdom; conformity to modes
rather than sincerity; display rather
than worth; "up-to-dateness'' rather
than knOwledges of the long stretches
of time and appreciation of eternity
he Sf9 nd I'd of
White Way which is by no means the
way of the white life.
Simeon Stylites, on top of his 60
foot pillar, from which he did not de-
scend for 80 years, is one type of IN
worldlinesS which we have outgrOwn.
This idea of aSceticism as characteriS-
tic of Christianity is no longer enter
tanned by any except the most ignor-
tant persons. Unworldliness is not
monasticism. We take as our example
today, not the recluseS and hermits
of the early Christian centuries, or of
the Middle Ages, but the well-rounded,
normal life of Jesus, who spent all His
days close to people. The secret of
not loving the world is in loving
Christ. He is our Model. as we'll as
our Teacher. We echo the words of
Frederic Lawrence Knowles:
Closest to men, Thou plying Son of
man,
And thrilled from crown to foot with
Yet most apart and strange, lonely as
God
Dwell in my, heart, remote and init
Brother of all the world, come to Thee.
Gentle she who nursed Thee at her
(Yet what lash of nghtnings once Thy
tongue
To scourge the hypocr1te and PhariseeD
Nerve Thou mine arm, meek, o mighty
One!
20 Man of Sorrows, with the wounded
hands
For chaplet, thorns; for throne, a pagan
Bowed with the woe and the agony of
Yet loved by children and the feasting
bring my sufferings. joyful heart to
1nee
"Chaste the virginia. lily on her stem.
Yet in each hot full pulse, each tropic
vein,
More filled with feeling than the flowers
with sun;
No anchorite-hale. sinewy. warm with
I come in youths high tide of bliss to
Thee.
20 Christ of contrast. infinite Paradox
Yet life'S explainer, solvent harmony
Frail strength, pure passion, meek aus
terity,
And the white spIendor of these dark
ened years
I lean my wondering, wayward heart on
Thine"
This world is good. God made it, and
for mans use He meant that His chill
dren should take delight in the sphere in
which He has placed them. Nobody can
enjoy the world SO truly as those who
know it as Gods world. and love and
Maker. There is a sense in which love of
the world is enobling and beautiful All
who SO love the world, live God more
| When he is put first, all other relation
Slips fall naturally into their rigntful
place.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
Where God builds a church. there the
devil would also build a chapel.-Martin
Luther
Take heed that We do not your aims be-
fore men, to be seen of them.-Jesus.
Whoever fights whoever falls,
Justice conquers evermore.
Emerson
but wait.-Longfellow.
Be noble, and the nob1eness that lies
In other men. sleeping but never dead,
VIII rise in majesty to meet thine own.
Lowell.
Nothing happens to anybody which he
is not fitted by nature to bear.-Marcus
Aurelius.
Let US have faith that right makes
might; and in that faith let us dare to do
our duty as we understand it.-Lincoln
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