The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-26

lums world peace was thought the
RAD OF fanatics, the dream of mystics
who heard angels singing in the skies:
now the most materialistic historian
or philosopher would not dream OF
writing down scheme of government
Tor the world which did not postulate
universal peace. Likewise. equal
rights for all men and women, the
abolition OF slavery, the triumph Of
temperance, the emancipation of child
labor-all these principles were de-
rided for long years after their pos
sibility came to be recognized.
In this our own day all men clear
ly see that society is being judged by
these advanced social conceptions
which are the ideals of Jesus. Poll
tics and BUSINESS must stand or fall
according as they conform to these
standards.
Jesus and Social Unrest.
Crowding still closer home to our
twentieth century, in this connection
is the tremendous truth that the final
utterances Of Jesus were concerned
largely with what our own day calls,
comprehensively, 1.-The social prob
lem" Questions Of social justice, of
employer and employed. Of charity:
OF a corrupted church, of personal
ambition in relation to group fellow
ship, OF loyalty to the state, and of
the MAYNARD side OF godliness-all
these bulked big in the farewell ut
terances of Jesus.
Anybody who thinks that the social
aspects of Christianity are a modern
of our Lord during the two weeks i'm
mediately preceding his crucifixion for
all the social programmes which the
great ecclesiastical gatherings have
formulated, and which the prophets of
our day have so powerfully cham
pioned. The leaven Of the days So
cial unrest may be found in the Gospel
of Christ.
A single word is to fly on the white
flag Of the Christmas ship that will
bear the gifts and greetings Of Amer
lean children to a million orphans
made by the cruel war: and that word
will be ''Inasmuch.'' The newspaper
editor who conceived the plan is no
preacher. but he knows the tremen-
dous import of that word of Jesus.
'Inasmuch as We have done it unto
one OF the least Of these my brethren
We have done it unto me-" There is
no more wonderful truth in Scripture
than this one that the Lord of heaven
and earth makes Himself one with all
the . needy. suffering and oppressed Of
earth. The cOrOllary Of this il that to
be united with Christ is to be like Him.
fellow sufferer with the worlds
humblest and most helpless ones.
Making Friends With the Judge.
This truth of the judseship Of the
Son of Man. need not be q terrible
one. I have friend who is q county
judge. and a terror to evil-doers; but
to his own little daughter he il not q
fearsome judge. but an indulgedt ia
Their. His seat of justice is at times
her playground, when she visits him
at the court house. To the Christian.
Christ Is less Judge than a Savior, q
friend. a brother.
Here. too. it Is possible to antici-
pate the judgment day. There is
now no condemnation for them that
are In. Christ Jesus" The friends of
Christ on earth. (who are likewise the
friends Of mani. are also the friends
OF Christ in the Great Day of the here
1Iter. which implies that the one
fact Of supreme importance concern-
ing any person or nation il his pres
ent relation to Jesus the crucifed.