The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15
For June II Is 1.-THE Risen LORD"
John POLLS.
The Victory That Lasts.

John POLLS.
The Victory That Lasts.
The story opens with woman
weeping before a grave. A familiar
enough scene; especially now women
weep because they have borne most OF
the worlds suffering. The vicar
| iousness of womanhood is at once a
great sorrow and great glory. Tears
are oftencst caused by death there
are worse griefs than this one, but
over it we weep most. The mystery,
! the silence, the separation of death
stirs the hearts deep fountains.
| This woman had best cause for
weeping In the grave beside which
| she stool had been buried the cody
of her Healer, her Teacher, her best
| Friend; the personal loss was beg ond
measure. And in the tomb also had
| been laid away the hopes of a hand
| of eager disciples, hopes for the re-
demption of Israel and for a new
| reign of righteousness for all the
world. On Jesus these friends mad
| builded everything; with him in the
grave the house of their hopes had
| toppled about their bowed heads. Now
| at dawn Mary and the other women
had come-the alertness of love is
woman s--bearing spices for their
| dead; the cold body of their Lord was
all that they expected, but God is al
! ways doing better than His children
expect or think. Mary and the wo-
men entered upon new estate that
day which has been bequeatheG to all
womanhood since. AS Mrs. Browning
sang:
Not she with traitorous kiss her Master
Stung
Not she denied Him with urfaithfu'
She, when Apostles fled, could danger
brave,
Last at His cross, and earliest at His
grave
What Is i'm a Name.
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the tears of His friends; He would
not even leave the comforting of Mary
to the angels by the empty tomb, but
He himself stood by tho she knew not
His nearness. Christ often comes
when eyes are holden, and the COM
! fort that He gives is not always rec
oSnized as from Him. Mary thought
she was seeking help from the gar
dener, but it was the Lord. Even when
He tenderly said, why weepest
thou?' she did not comprehend; He
had to call her by name before she
understood.
All the sweet adjectives that love
bestows upon loved one are not so
meaningfu1 as the personal, familiar
name, with the melting tenderness
and deep significance that may be put
into it. So when Jesus turned and
said; MARY" she knew Him in
stantly; no one else could pronounce
her name like that. The Good Shop
herd calls His sheep by name, and
each is, as Mary was, a beloved per-
sonality.
In a transport of rapture she would
have flung herself at His feet and
, / chung to Him, but the Master re-
strained her; the risen Lord did not
keep the same intimacy of human re-
lations as before; He had new powers
and new work. Mary. too, had an
immediate mission; she could not sit
, and adore, for the brethren awaited
the glorious news, He is risen!''
/, The Message # Mary.
! The first preacher of the full Cos
, pei was a woman. To Mary it was
> given to utter the word that unfold.
, acts and teachings of Jesus. What q
: revolution in feeling and outlook the
: news must have created il the minds
! of the disciples. All was clear now
= the sayings that they formerly had
been unable to comprehend shone
with divine meaning. Jesus had
risen, even as He had said. He had
r done exceedingly abundantly above
9 all that they could ask or think. No,
defeat. but victory was their program
Now the infant church had a mes
a sage for the world, the very message
of hope and life which is most need
ed. The last great enemy who hat
blanched the cheek of the bravest
had ben conquered. Men need nc
r longer be prisoners to dread and fear
A new attitude toward life and death
I had been conquered. Men need nj
disciples would go forth, as thousand:
!. since have done, facing every martyr
dom songfully. The worlds wonder
= ment, Behold, how these Christian:
| dle!" would be new gateway to the
. kingdom The resurrection hope i!
the capstone of the edifice of Chris
. tan truth. Because I live, we shall
| live alSo;" this is the word which the
church is now to cry aloud above the
| din of the worlds battlefields as tn,
comfort for all the bereaved; and a:
the sure stay of all who face death.
e Our Own Days Chief Question.
: Every days newspaper contains :
S special mention of those who have
e solved the problem of Immortality
n and of those who are deeply, immedi
ately and supremely concerned in it
/ They will be found in the death no
tice column, and the first group ar,
t those who have died, and the secont
group are the families and neal
@ friends of the dead.
e No question is more ancient, more
insistent, or more profound and i'm
portant than this one, IF a man die
: shall he live again?" To some degre,
t it is certain at some time or other t.
@ engage the thought of every matur,
2 mind. With the daily dispatches
/. from abroad fairly reeking with new!
# of bloody deaths by the myriad, tn,
problem is one that thrusts itself in
p exorably into the consideration o
: even the frivolous minded and tn,
, needless.
Every poet, every philosopher. ha
o.. specialized upon the theme. The hu
;, man mind has always experiences
'intimations of Immortality" TIL
:. conviction that this supreme fiowe
and fruit of the universe, the human
soul, was not born to fall and perish
; utterly, and that this earthly life is
J by many signs, only the preparation
for some higher form of existence
lies deep down in the thinking of ev
O ery<normal person. Addison put tn
thought into a few lines:
1T must be so,-Plato, thou ceasones
e well,