The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-21


injustice. he necessarily pays price.
in the lives OF those who serve Him.
But He recompenses them. now ana
eternally. The battlefield creed may
be called that of the larger hope.
The soldier may march stumbiingly.
but he is going the way of the cross
and he IS sure of the resurrection
morning. His faith is pinned upon
the very nature of God, as he has
learned it in the character of Jesus.
In Britain / sought out the extent
of the gr with of the various pha.1ta-
sizes, such as spir.tualism and theoso-
ply and other forms of occultism
which has been reported as wide
spread ] found them negligible. Bril-
tains new sense of the life of her
I dead is not based on spookish seances
or diluted and scented Hinduism.
While she has lost much of her
Churchianity. Great Britain holds
| anew the truth of living and risen
Christ. and of an eternal life with
Him. There is sorrow everywhere.
and bravely born-oh, so bravely,-.-
but there is also the conviction that
the dear dead have offered UP their
lives after the very fashion of the Re-
| deemer of mankind; and that they
live anew and forever. The departed
/ are present as a sanctifying influence
| that is helping to make the world
over into condition worthier of them.
| The War in Old Jerusalem.
How inseparable the new religious
thinking OF our time is bound up with
| the facts of the life of Jesus is shown
by the remarkable public interest i'm
| the capture of Jerusalem by the Brit
| fsh. There vas enacted the tragedy
| OF all time. Christendom looks with
reverence upon the city of the Holy
Sepulchre. The popular Imagination
has looked upon General ATTEMPTS
| Crr1Sa IL
holy places of our faith from infidel
control. While the crucifixion and
resurrection of our Lord are great
spiritual facts. having a Significance
aissociated from time and place. yet
the actual scene of the events -
sacred soil to all the world
Resurrection is synonymous with
| victory 1t stands for the triumph of
truth and of God. That is why the
resurrection note sounds in so much of
poem of our war said to have been
found on the body of a fallen Austral-
ian soldier:
Ye that have faith 70 look with fearless
eyes.
Beyond the tragedy Of a world at strife,
rise
The dawn of ampler life.
Rejoice. whatever anguish rend the heart
That God has given Won priceless dover,
To live in these great times and have your
In Freedoms browning hour
mat ye may tell your sons who see the
High in the Heavens-their heritage to take.
Il saw the powers of darkness put to
saw the morning break"
Good People and Good Times.
Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
Peoples Societies-Ghristian En-
deavor, E,tc.-For June % Is: How
to Have Good Time l Thess.
5:16-24.
Why should there be need to repeat
the aged-old assurance that religion
is not melancholy thing but that in
its naturalness, buoyant joyousness.
hopefulness. and peace it is the life
worth living? Yet there are many
who consider sanctimoniousness,
Synonymous with saintliness. and prig-
gishness a part of piety Away with
such a notion, Christ came to bring
life-full. rich. robust life. and the re-
!, lision of gloom insults Him and denies
His mission.
Every recreation that is not dissipa-
ton is Christian.
The religion that envics the world
. its pleasures, is not the glad religion
taught by Christ.
Pleasures are either recreation or
; dissipation The former build up,
|, strengthen, satisfy, but the latter waste
time or health or money or energy
or virtue or spirituality. To all pleas
ures that are recreation Christ would
give His approval.
Pleasures and religion are not two
things but one. Pleasure is often re-
! Iligion. To engage in recreation Is as
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prayer meeting. There is this danger.
however, that recreation will be given
disproportionate attention. or that 1t
will be made a thing secular and apart
from religion.
Happy times do not happen. They
: are the result of definite causes. Once
we put into operation certain causes
such as unselfishness, torbearance.
/ courtesy, and love-we make inevit-
: able the natural result, happy time.
{ Give us the man who sings at his
work Be his occupation what II may.
: he is superior to any of those VINO 1"!-
: low the same pursuit in silent sullen.
ness.
; < popular Jingle exhorted, keep
on the sunny side of life. There >
one sort of person who habltuaiiy
chooses the shady side OF the streer.
, preferring gloom, depression ana
worry. Fretfulness and anxiety are
second nature to some men and woni-
en-. When they haven't real troubles
|, at hand, they imagine them. All Their
days are attuned to a minor key. To
say that this state of mind is unw,s>
is merely to express a truism. No
lot is SO blessed that thinking cannot
make 1t seem evil. Happiness is ei-
ways subjective. The sensible person
is the one who walks on the sunny
side of life, thereby expressing his
faith in the world and in God who
made it. No troubles can abide the
presence of dauntless optimistic
| spirit. The person who Isl ever en-
the lookout for silver Innings will hnd
that clouds are chiefly silver.