The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-10

Mans Highest Power.
Terse Comments for January II, ''Pur-
pose. Persistency and Power in Prayer.
Matt 7:7-11.
(BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.)
Science speaks softly nowadays when 1t
talks about the powers Of man So many
of the human spirit that only the rash
dare say what the ultimate limits may be.
submarine and the wireless and the x-ray
and radium and the spectroscope all bid
us go softly into the field Of speculation
strange mood Of reverence has come over
the whole company Of physical scientists
presidential address indicated. the thought
tneoloeians: We are dimly conscious Of a
pGa spi@ituai All thoushtfuI Gn persons perceiSs
ward war side. AS he Is allied with Omnipo-
own nature is strengthened. man comes
but the prayer-side Of life? For prayer
is the link that connects the two great
and tSs life 'ne Of man The ne poets @ words
convey perhaps a more profound intima-
tion than he himself intended:
than this world dreams Of"
Man is man at his best when he is
~AOSCSt ~ N1oAs
Miracle Mary" the leading story of
last months issue OF the American Maya
sode, story of the answer to prayer.
That natural and most modern means
ers Of 1SH The 8 salvation Ar Army iassie, s and M 70
reunite her with her convict lover. does
not make the relation between the pray
Mary called the climax a miracle; and
probably she was not far wrong. For all
Him wise the and acfs s. of GGd In full
miracles. We are more cautious than we
used to be about our Interpretation of this
Gods eapiicaSie % and inexplicaSle iof Sxy Words. %
1T is the Lords doings, and 1t is mar
vellous in our eyes"
God soon fades out of the eye that for
gets to pay"
Olive schreiner tells Of the boons that were
promised a mother in behalf of her child;
and and, the o greatest Of those was that the
earth's best blessing are they to whom
the things of the spirit are the great real
world. and has another to attend him.
Freedom from the thraldom Of things is
their perennial record. They walk through
the world as conquerors. because they
walk with God.
Power In PRAYER is power imported by
out Of the nature OF the Answerer Of pray
er. TINS CAPACITY is not q birthrigb which
upon II s ayn1
The most important fact about prayer Is
rot that man IS on his knees but that
OF PRAYER should cause the heart to bow
low in reverence before a God SO great
that he can stoop. to the smallest need or
There are ingenious machines in all
modern astronomical observatories which
reep the telescopes steadily directed upon
the desired heavenly body. thus overcom-
ing the movement Of the earth. True
serves the Godward attitude Of the human
darkness.
Analogies often fail, but this one is sure.
and NAV not be pushed too far: Jesus.
who knew more about God than anything
% that he taught us to ~as com m
s1der the Omnipotent in relation to prayer.
..,, the utmost that would be expected OF any
asked of the Heavenly Father The model
PRAYER begins Our Father" The rela-
fiiial Pagan faiths taught men to rssard ard
tne supreme Being as a remote and terri
PIE pie Power Power to & be propitiated: Jesus showed
hts thoughts toward us are thoughts Of
love; The warrant for prayer inheres in
Small and inadequate ideas OF prayer
there may easily be. One such portrays
God as universal almsgiver to the
WORLDS mendicants. The other makes him
out to be the mere messenger of mankind.
paw according to a certain mechanscsi
prescription. Thus. It once was proposed,
oy some Jealous believers that Christians
everywhere unite. on n certain 1ay in
PRAYER for the conversion OF Robert q.
lnsersou. noted infidel. That sort OF
] ing clAuse' OF every accent afie nrascr