The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-10

had been spoken: there remained only |
the intimate message for the fellow
ship to be uttered in this room to the !
men who had leaned upon him, learn |
ed of him, followed him, and partaken |
of his personality.
Thenceforth Jesus was to be all |
this, and more, to his friends, but only
in spiritual sense. AS this new Sup
per symbolized. they were henceforth !
to partake of his life and to be sus-
tanned by him in the spirit The Lords |
supper Is the abiding token of Christ's |
desire to minister forever to his own.
Also it is a pledge and a promise of
the new day when all of his own shall
be gathered from everywhere to eat
anew. in the kingdom of heaven, the
feast which will then be 1.-The mar
riage supper of the Lamb" The Last
Supper points backward and forward;
jective is the Master who said, This
do in remembrance of Me-
According to Thy gracious word.
In meek humility,
This will 1 do, my dying Lord.
I will remember Thee.
Thy body, broken for my sake.
My bread from heaven shall be:
Thy Instrumental cup 1 take,
And thus remember Thee.
"Gethsemane can / forget?
Or there Thy conflict see,
Thine agony and bloody sweat,
And not remember Thee?
when to the cross 1 turn mine eyes.
And rest on Calvary,
o Lamb of God. my Sacrifice,
1 must remember Thee;
Remember Thee, and all Thy pains.
And all Thy love for me:
Yea. while a breath. pulse remain.
Will 1 remember Thee.
"And when these failing lips grow
dumb,
And mind and memory flee.
When Thou shalt in Thy kingdom
come,
Jesus, remember me-"
sStiu Achieving, Still Pursuing"
Terse Comments on the Uniform Prayer
Meeting Topic of the Young Peoples
for October H. Next Steps for Our
Society,"" II Peter 1:1-8
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
Practical men often lose sight of
the power welded by the forces of
idealism. They do not take the pub
lie school, the Sunday school and the
Christian .cndeavor society into their
thinking at all. Yet it Is by such
agencies as these that the ideals of
the nation are shaped. That is one
good reason why the development of
the Christian Endeavor society, which
in this weeks topic. is a matter of real
public interest. Anything that con-
Germs the spiritual and intellectual
nurture Of youth, affects the whole
nation.
Millions Of young persons have had
their first experience Of broadened
| y11 t. I'D
| society, which takes in all sections.
| denominations, countries and races.
| Inter" is it's key-word. The solidar-
| ity of mankind, and the spiritual un-
| ity of all believers, is realized by all
who come into this comprehensive
Christian Endeavor fellowship. Now,
| with brother nations at war, and with
Endeavorers fighting against Endeav-
orers. in opposing armies, and pray
| ing against one another, as well as
for themselves, what shall the Chris
tan Endeavorers of America say?
Simply this: the hour has come for
more horizon, rather than less; for
increased accent upon our Inter re-
latiOns; and for the dauntless promo
ton of those Christian Endeavor
ideals which will make impossible
hereafter such unbrotherly conflicts
as the present war. A continuing
effort of every Christian Endeavor
I
ing of all it's broader relationships.
Every step upward is also a step
forward.
In its first two decades especially
the Christian Endeavor movement
gave tremendous impetus to church
loyalty. The motto, For Christ and
the Church" was a rallying cry OF
loyalty to the local congregation. At
the present time the Christian church.
as a whole. cOnfronts new difficulties.
This is not the place for a study of
church efficiency, but the facts seem
clear to most sympathetic students OF
conditions that time OF weakness
and peril is upon organized Chris
tianity. This is the hour when Chris
tan Endeavor may splendidly rally to
the noble task of infusing new energy,
new loyalty, new skill into the activ-
tiles of the local church. If this be
Christian Endeavor's next step. 1t Will
be indeed For CHRIST and the
! Church.
There are still as many tasks to dc
for the new generation OF youth as
there were when Christian Endeavol
was first established.
Every Individual advance in
strength and spirituality Of character
is progress for Christian Endeavor.
In all its work. a Christian Endeavol
society should advance upon its
knees" For 1t is a Christian En-
) deavor society with the accent upon
tie first word. with Prayer, or moi
at ALL" is its purpose. Spirituality
robust. vital, contemporaneous spirit.
uality-which is as normal and proper
for a youth in his teens as for a saint
in his seventies. Is the deepest need II