The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-13

longer shall we have to wait for all OF
our present evils to be outgrown!
Frankly. for one am not the sort OF
altruist who is willing to wait ten
thousand years to, see my descendants
betteFed in character and in estate.
want this old world made over for
those needy ones whom I have seen
with my own eyes-the sore-eyed chill
dfen of Asia; the starving, bitterly OPP
pressed Assyrians and Armenians; the
mothers of Europe, and the bent toll
ers of all the earth. My interest is in
something immediate and practicable.
I am too much Of an American in
spirit to be willing to wait like a
Theosophist or a Hindu for long
series of reinearnatiens that will final
ly merge man into Nirvana.
Power for the Machinery.
All of which drives us straight to
the one proved and Immediate remedy
for the worlds ills. 1 am among those
who have a first-hand knowledge OF
heather character made holy by the
power of Christ. I have seen the
sinking, craven. guileful oriental be-
come an upright, self-respecting man
of integrity The drunkard has been
made sober, the dissolute made chaste,
the liar made truthful, the lazy made
industrious, the cruel made kind. the
selfish made neishbor1y. all by the
misunderstanding love of Jesus.
The one way out of the world mud
die is the way of the cross. The cam
non are blasting highway for divine
| love. Back of all peace treaties and
league of nations eompacts and world
obligations must be put the divine
| dynamic of a new nature born of
| God. In q. word, except the love of
Christ constrain them. the nations are
not going to observe the after-the-
4 Aa ~ Fns- NY q
| than it will take them to put thcm-
selves in q position OF selfish advan-
tage.
| world REORGANIZATION thus becomes
a problem of world evangelization
The problems which have been en-
gaging the generals and statesmen
have become the problems of Chris
tian leaders. All other kings may be
dethroned, but unless Jesus bt
crowned king Of all life, our efforts
will have been in vain. Democracy
can be made safe for the world
which will have been made safe fol
democracy, only by Interpreting it IL
terms of Christian brotherhood. Tina
idea of life and of God which is ex
pressed in Jesus is the only solution
for our world perplexities. 1t is the
business OF religion to Dress home t.
every last man on earth the grea
truth of Gods will for His childfe>
as IepTeSenleQ Dy MS sent 6OH.
sour God is an eternal Christ,
Interchangeable, unchangedj
His love 10 still as warm and true
AS when LIES COMMON way He ranged
Beneath the Syrian blue.
| "Our God is an eternal Christ,
: And Christ is very love
The Love that, ere the world was made
: He with His Justice Intervene,
As He the way surveyed.
"Our God is an eternal Christ,
All tender. wise and true;
| As once He was to those OF old,
So is He now to me and you,
5 Till all the tale is told.
LAS Christ was then, SO Ged IL now,
; A wise and loving friend.
No feeble cry will He deny,
l But of His best will surely send,
. And that right instantly"
) The missionary enterprise is nc
merely a class or church matter.
: is q world concern. 1t is the mediur
Z for effeeting those changes in all Q
human life which alone can validat
and vindieate this war; We are t
= serve the world by saving and trans
forming ITS men and women and lii
: tie children.