The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-22

back to the southland She had the
quality of decision which many a man
since has wished for her sisters. She
knew her mind: she knew her hours;
on the past, for the mysterious future
to which she had heard the call.
Religion and Eugenics.
Some old fogies used to wall a great
deal in public about the modern
young peoples societies, because they
said they were just matchmaking or
CARNATIONS. They complained that
young men and young women met
marriages resulted. AS if there were
any better or nobler way to meet
sharer of ones whole life, than in the
work of the church and in allegiance
to Cod The big problem of eugen-
les which is looming large upon the
social horizon, will scarcely be solved
in the legal and scientific way that
some scientists plan. The normal I'M
artificial form of eugenics is for pure
men and pure women, whose lives are
given in service to God, to find each
other and to pledge their mutual faith
within the comprehensive Christian
covenant.
The two most important hours in a
persons life are his first conscious
meeting with God in personal relation
ship and his first conscious meeting
with the life that is to be his souls
comrade through the rest of time
Even as Eleizer prayed for the success
OF his matrimoni mission, so young
men and young women should pray
for the guidance of God in this great
est choice upon which the future of
the nation and the world depends.
Any light and frivolous and uncon-
sidered notion of marriage is not only
contrary to a realization of ones obli-
cations to the world, but also con-
trary to the spirit of the Scriptures.
God planned from the beginning that
man and woman should become one
md H.
Kind 1t is not unreasonable to be-
lleVe that they who have wfffulIy re-
Jected marriage will be held account
able in Gods time of reckoning. There
are thousands of men and women
who. from shortsightedness cow
ardice or selfishness, have turned their
backs upon the welded life. In so /
doing they have repudiated Gods pro-
gram.
The world progresses according to
the old Persian legend of the juftak
This is bird with one wing, but the
male has wing on one side and a
mas a wing on the opposite side, and a |
ring to match the hook: and when the
two were linked together they could |
fly, and only then
The Brides Homecoming.
This old story is suggestive of hu-
man nature. Isaac was a quiet STAY |
at-home, negative character, fond of |
in the garden in the cool |
f,nn the evening He could easily be
other people crowded him away from |
them. Even Rebekah, when he grew
OLD, deceived him in the matter of the |
for her favorite son, Jacob |
She nodded Isaac to her purposes
We may not be hard on Rebekah |
as we see her journeying with caravan |
OF ten camels, led by Eleizer, and hav- |
ing only her nurse with her as a re-
nlnder of her old home. She was a |
helpmeet for Isaac. The promised !
ilne might have suffered shipwreck |
had it not been for her positive char |
acter. She made up, like a good wife |
what Isaac lacked. If she had more |
than her share of aggressiveness, it !
was because he had less than the |
portion that was expected of a man. |
The two together, complementing each !
other carried out Gods idea for So
ciety.
Every marriage is a matter of gray
est interest to the world, for it is at |
the marriage altar that the future of |
the race is determined. That is why.
at every wedding, there should be |
three parties, the man, the woman,
and God.