The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-29

will. Often we prove that we are true
to God by being true to man.
Caesars name and image is on
society debt for the protection it
affords US; for the roads it builds. the
mails 1t carries. for the sewers and
schools and fire-protection 1t provides;
and for the countless ordered usages
Of our organized life. No honest man
can be an individualist denying the
claims of the State upon him. in this
twentieth century. THE strength OF
the wolf is the pack"
The Caeser-law laid down by the
citizenship. The man who does not
vote at every election, and vote in the
fear Of God, has violated the injunc-
ton to render unto Caesar the things
that are Caesar's." A new vision of
Christian citizenship has been caught
by people in this our day. Old slavish
party allegiances have been cast off,
as unworthy of independent manhood.
Bosses find it increasingly hard to
control the voters; they are taking
their obligation to Caesar more sacred
ly nowadays.
The truth is being squarely faced,
that the person who is not definitely
doing some form of public service,
whether it be helping to get out care
less voters on election day, or putting
all the power he possesses into opposi-
ton to office-seekers who are I'M
worthy, or else working in some nom
political way for the help Of the people
is not measuring up to Christ's speci-
Caesar is to serve God. The good citi-
zen is Gods citizen.
When once a life comes under the
sway Of the sanctities set forth by
Jesus. neither organized human So
cfety Or the kingdom Of heaven will
lack for faithful servants. Loyal in
little. loyal in large.
The Worlds War Against War
Terse Comments for August 3O-"Why
and How to Abolish War;" lisa. 65;
1928.
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
In these days it is we'll to watch
closely the whole worlds horizon. for
vast changes are taking place. The
time has come to think in large units,
to study world maps.
The whole earth is Keeling from the
staggering shock of war, even as these
lines are being penned. All the ma
armed for the fray, and the worlds
remotest country is affected by this
vast cataclysm, this horrible human
holocaust. Perhaps it is in this awful
school, since nations would learn In no
other, that the God of nations is
teaching the lesson of universal peace.
After the great powers have crushed
and spent and exhausted. one another;
and after the savage art of war has
taken unmeasured toll of the worlds
young manhood; after a fearful paral-
ySiS of the productive processes Of CIV
ilization-then, and not until then.
men will learn to submit themselves
! to the brotherly sway of the Prince of
Peace.
Whatever promotes the spirit Of
human sympathy and good will di-
rectly initiates against war.
The Christian church should be the
| chief supporter of the peace cause, for
| she is the custodian Of the angelic
! message, Peace on earth, good will
toward men," Still, 1t must be ad-
mitted that in this, as in other of her
| larger responsibilities. the church has
failed to rise to the magnitude of her
task. Only belatedly are the forces of
| organized ChristendOm surging into
line behind this cause, which is SO
closely allied to the birth and spirit of
her Lord. The church should be the
| worlds most active and effective pro-
| ponent of peace.
| Whatever promotes intercourse and
kind serves the cause Of peace. Every
steamship ticket is bit Of peace lit
erature.
What President Nicholas Murray
! Butler calls an international mind"
must precede the success of peace.
There must be some understanding of
the viewpoint of other peoples before
| there can be an abatement of the
| ancient ignorant antagonisms which
promote war.
| The soul that il too big for hate is
great enough to be Gods home.
Readers of the dispatches from
| Mexico have been Mortified over the
! atrocities reported. That men should
| be robbed Of their property, women
! Of their virtue, and all classes of their
| lives, appears to our twentieth CEN
fury state of mind outrageous and in
tolerable. There is something almost
comic about this. as IL war had ever
been conducted otherwise. There
never has oeen q war that has not had
these terrible concomitants. War