The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-25
In the Religious World

pity the people who have pusi1-
luminous leaders in 4 time of great
crises. 1t makes sovereign citizen
tremble when he sees politicians pur-
suing their petty partisan purposes
in an hour of national emergency.
AT least we can be thankful that. as
we sweep the worlds present trou-
bled horizon there are few, If any.
RehobOams in places of national
leadership.
Leaders and MisIeaders.
One angle from which the quar-
ter'S lessons may be viewed is as a
study in leadership 1 heard man
say, in condemning a certain noto-
rio,Is eccleSiaStic in one of the larger
American religious denominations,
1T will take the church twenty
that mans influence, after he is
dead" Similarly today, the hand of
Abdul Hamid has been removed from
the Turkish sceptre, but 1T remains
b2iefully upon the Turkish people.
The present saturnalia of massacres
and prosecutions of Christians in the
Ottoman empire is ira eable to Alb
dull HamiG's example and influence.
Jeroboan, who made Israel to SIM
Continued his malign work even aft
er his bones had rotted. No man
sinneth unto himself If you do not
believe that on first statement ask
the historians; or ask the doctors,
who, in this mornings paper cried
out against the social crime of per-
hitting wicked fathers to foredoom
unborn offspring to suffering and de-
spair.
Observing the Influence of the
character of the kings who were
leaders and misleaders of the Jews.
We are reminded of the proyerb,
forceful personality should make
himself count in these days for the
highest welfare in the world. 1t is q
! solemnizing thing to have great in
III ST n o.
| ligious studies have constantly i'm
pinged upon the field of Jewish pa
triotism, so the call today is for
Christian men and women to eXer-
potently, their influence in behalf of
the highest national ideals The
Jews of old never passed through a
graver crisis than that which encom-
passes the nations of the world at
the present time.
The Prophets Part.
Probably the average school teach
er yields a more potent influence over
the life than the average officeholder,
taking the two classes in the large.
Kings, on the whole, have counted
for less than the great reformers,
writer's and preachers. To be speak
/ er forth of truth is to- WELD the
mightiest sceptre. After David and
/ Solomon-both of HON combined
/ the prophet-function with their SOW
ereignty, that they are immortal as
| teachers, rather than as rulers
/ there was no king among the Jews
who counted for much as the
prophets. Elijah dwarfed all his con-
| temporaries.
To be the man who speaks for God
in a nations troubled hour is great
mission. What if the prophets work
is hard for the prophet? Better truths
/ tempests than errors ease. Elijah in
the wilderness is a sublimer figure
than Ahab on his throne. God still
has ravens to feed His messengers, so
1 that the messengers need give. little
i thought to the ravens, but only to the
message. The firm pays the expenses
of its travelling representatives
This review ends where the quar-
| ter's lessons ended, squarely confront
/ ing the great and eternal truth that
1 to represent God, to speak His mes
sage fearlessly, to be true to His name
and mission, is the highest work pos
sible to mortal. When the times are
most troublous, then the need for the