The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-21

And wake the dead says he, :.
.Ye shall BEE one thing. to master all:
It's how q brave man dies on the tree
"a son of God was the Goodly Fere
That babe us his brothers be.
ha' seen him COW a thousand men.
/ have seen him upon the tree.
He cried no cry when they drave the
And the blood gushed hot and free.
The hounds Of the crimson sky gave
But never a cry cried he.
Il ha. seen him cow thousand men
On the hills o. Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm be-
tween,
WI his eyes like the grey O. the sea.
Like the sea that brooks no voyasing
With the winds unleashed and free.
Like the sea that he cowed Genseret
Wi twey words spoke suddenly.
"a master Of men was the Goodly Fere,
A mate Of the wind and sea,
If they think they ha' slain our Goodly
They are fools eternally.
IT ha' seen him eat O. the honeycomb
Sim they nailed him to the tree
The Politicians and the Rabble.
Look for the motive" is a good rule
to follow. in juggling actions. Back of
ment seat lay the scheming of adroit
ecclesiastical politicians. who were US
ing the time-serving judge to satisfy
their own envy and revenge. These
men who so coolly foreswore a mans
life were exceedingly solicitous to keep
Passover. They sedulously conserved
their church standing while at the
same time they sought to slay the man
who spoke the truth.
Adroitly. skillfully. they played their
deadly politics. alternately working
the job-holding judge. The voice that
cried Away with him! Cruelty him.
was the voice of the multitude; but the
words were the words of the priests
and pharisees. Obviously, the strong
man who uses weaker men to accom-
plish reprehensible ends is more guilty
than the one who dares to do his evil
work alone.
Plate, the lever that was used was
his overmastering solicitude to hold his
pOsitiOn-st1ll one of the favorite de-
vices of the devil. If men were az
much afraid of offending God as they
are of losing their jobs. there would be
more Out-and-Out manhood in public
life and in private business. These
crafty old villains from the temple pre-
cincts had only to whisper, IF thou re-
lease this man thou are not Caesars
FRIEND" to bring PLATE to heel like a
whimpering dog. He saw through their
plot, but, being coward. he was help
less.
For the charge that caused Jesus to
be convicted was not one against him.
self, but an implied charge against
Plate. Before the Jewish tribunal
Jesus had been charged with bias
phemy. That was no offense against
Roman law. So before Plate He was
VIyif oCnv hot ln1I %Iok
so 1t took q hint Of a charge against
Pilates own loyalty to bring Jesus to
the cross.
The Best q Man Can Do.
With procedure more oriental than
Roman, PLATE after declaring he found
no fault with the prisoner, permitted
him to be scourged and Knocked, and
ultimately crucified. Crafty. at ono
stage in the trial he sought to evade
responsibility by sending Jesus to
Herod, whose court made sport of him.
without provoking a word of response.
Driven to desperation by the rab-
ble's choice Of robber to be set free,
instead of Jesus (for PLATE had weak
~ put the matter up to the crowd),
coward. What then shall do unto
Jesus who Is called Christi" That is
the question of questions. 1t Is the
most important interrogation that
ever confronts a human being; and
every one of US must face it. Upon
our answer to that depends our life
philosophy and our Hfe-conduct; and
our veal for two worlds.
Place alongside of Pilates fearful
question the bold affirmation of Je-
sus: ITO this end am come into the
world. that Should bear witness unto
the truth" That is the immortal
spirit OF man asserting its highest pre-
rogative. No loftier function is pos
sible to mortal or immortal than to
bear witness to the truth. By word,
by pen. by vote. by life, by suffering.
hv death. II need be man must. by a
divine cOmpulsion, bear witness to the
highest truth he knows. In this ex-
ercise he may die, as did Jesus. but he
will die crowned. This passion of 10y
atty to the truth needs cultivation. es-
pecially among youth, in these sbphis-
ticated, material days. The glory Of
suffering for truths sake is a heritage
which Christ hands on to the world
from the judgment hall of PLATE, who
loved place more than he loved truth.
The True Optimist.
Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
Peoples Societies-Christian En-
deavor, etc.-for November %, "A
Joyous Life" Joel 2:21-27 (Thanks-
giving meeting).
(BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.)
Carlysle spoke disdafnfully OF
those who would feed life on "a diet
J of broad grins." There Is shallow
| sophistry abroad in the land which
needs this puncturing word of scorn:
for its only philosophy Is that il one
smiles, nothing else matters. Now
this injunction to keep smiling is
scarcely an adequate program of life.
Shall the stained sinner smile? Or
the unemployed man whose family Is
hungry? Or the mother whose child
| is in the far country? The mere sum-
mons to an outward appearance OF
merriment Is worse than inadequate:
/ it is mOckerv 1t is true that life