The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17
In the Religious World

| tifully puts it, waters of rest Sat
isfaction for soul-thirst is a boon God
reserves for His beloved. "All my
springs are in Thee cries the de-
vout souL God Himself is the re-
freShment of His sheep. The worlds
spiritual questing, never more intense
than today, fulf1lls itself only in God.
After Downfall.
Critical reading often discerns in
literature the personal experiences of
the author. Back of the single line,
He restoreth my SOUL" we may read
the word "Bathsheba." out of the
bitterness of terrible sin that was
yet forgiven, the psalmist wrote this
tremendous truth. Here is the beacon
of hope that flames from the cross of
Gods love: Let the wicked forsake
his way, and the uDrighteouS man his
thoughts; and bet him return unto Je-
hovah, and He will have mercy upon
him; and to our God, for He will
abundantly pardon God is great in
mercy. He has a plan for forgiving
stumbling, SHINING world more deeply
than this.
Dan Crawford of Africa one day
drew out of his wallet and read to
me, in that rich voice of his, these lines
by an Irish factory girl:
II will cast in the depths of the fathom-
less sea,
ever they be;
Though they mount up to heaven, though
they sink down to hell,
They shall sink in the depths and above
them shall swell
All my waves of forgiveness. so mighty
1 will cast all thy sins in the depths of
the sea.
I'm the depths, in the depths, where the
storm cannot come, o..
Where its faint echo falls, like a musical
Where no mortal can enter, thy faults to
deride,
For above them forever flows loves
mighty tide.
OF their sepulchres vast, thy God, hold
And buy them there, in the depths of
the sea.
from the shore
Where they never may rise up to trouble
Where no far-reaching tide, with its pitt
May stir the dark waves of forgetfulness
1 have buried them there, where mortal
1 have cast ali thy sins in the depths of
the sea-"
The feet that are lifted up after
are guided. God leads
those He loves in plain path. We do
not have to grope or blunder toward
we are given the Shep-
herds guidance.
The Club With a Knob.
From a shepherd boy in Galilee one
morning L bought his rod-the same
sort of rod that is carried oftener by
far than crook, by all shepherds in
the east, and has been from earliest
times. Probably the rod of Moses was
like 1T. At one end of the stout stick
is heavy knob, cut from the root of
a sapling. The shepherds rod is a
-
fort in it, in a land of danger and
violence. Now we see how David may
have slain the lion and the bear. Il
There is safety for the sheep of the
Good Shepherd. The Bible frankly
the fact of enemies. It
pictures God as a protector as well as
a provider. His presence drives out
fear even when we walk through the |
valley of the deep darkness. How |
many death-beds have echoed in these |
Thou art with me-" Even the last |
yreat~enemy loses his terrors when the |
Shepherd accompanies the sheep.
The Overlooking Cup.
Metaphors are mixed as the great
song draws to it's close. This is liter
lture beyond the rules of rhetoricians.
master song, it breaks the restraints
IF literary form, that it's spirit may be
rec. Heretofore the figure of the 7
sheep has been preserved: now there |
S table spread, head anointed, a
,up Overlooking. No one metaphor is
great enough to express the COM
bitterness and eXuberance of the care
If the Good Shepherd for the least of
His own
So the cup of praise overflows, even
rs does the cup of providence. The
psalm ends in a pean of eXultation,
ike the closing crash of all the instru-
nentS of an orchestra.
Surely goodness and loving kindness shall
follow me all the days of my life
And shall dwell in the house of Jehovah