The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-28

link him closely to the common run
of US. Yet these only serve to throw
into high relief his essential patience.
When he found what was Gods pro-
gram, he was willing to wait on it.
His natural impulsiveness is shown at
the slaughter of the Egyptian, became
well refined in before he reached
Mount Nebo and had his first and last
look over the Promised Land. Write
it deeply that patience must be at the
foundation of greatness of character.
where there is no vision the people
perish says the wise man. The sal
walton of any society is the men and
women of imagination who dream
dreams and see visions. This Moses
had a seeing eye He could see God
in the bush, he could see God on the
mountain top. he could see a nation
in brow-beaten, spiritless horde of
captiVes. Countless obstacles con-
fronted him in the great task he I'M
dertook, but he had the gift of seeing
thru and over the obstacles to the vic
tory which lay beyond. This power
of vision which rises above the petty
circumstances and which does not
magnify the near at hand into the all
important, is vital to poise and power
in life.
If some people had a little more
vision, they would be able to take a
square look at the pettiness, puerility,
sordidness and vanity of their own
lives. 1hey would see the lncOnSe-
quentialness of most of the pursuits
that engage their powers. They would
be Spurred to live for ends worth liv-
ing for. Canaans flowing with milk
land honey. are the Inheritance not of
the grumbling ones who are concerned
primarily with food, raiment and ply
steal comfort, but of those who pur-
sue great ideals. This western world
is a product of vision. Its greatness is
assured until it loses its vision. That
would be worse calamity than the
greatest financial panic that could
overtake the country. OF all the ad-
vantages of war, none is greater than
the opened eyes of our soldiers and of
our people.
The Essence of Patriotism.
The patriotism of Moses was linked
vitality with the NERVOUSNESS, which
is the essence of patriotism. Moses
lived and labored for the sake of 9TH
ers. His trials were not his own, but
his peoples. He loved his fellow
countrymen better than he loved his
life. For their sake he was willing to
be accursed; for their sake he dared
the wrath of Jehovah; for their sake
he underwent all the rigors of the will
derneSs: from the first blow that felled
the Egyptian to the last sublime strain
of his dying song, his thought was of
Israel and not of himself.
The devil looks out for number one A;
so do Il great many people But all
those who bear in their spirits the
| marks of the truly great. which is to
say the marks of the Lord Jesus, have
concern for their fellow men. They
are hardened by society's woes; the
ills that afflict mankind touch their
hearts. Their lives are given, not to
any bread and butter existence for the
mere maintenance of their physical
selves, but to the great causes of hu
man service. There is one invariable
test of greatnesS-no man is more
| than commonplace and small who is
looking primarily for himself. In this
sense number one indicates the
| lowest grade.
1t thus comes about that the world
| calls to its places of leadership the
| men whose unselfishness it has tested.
| In the long run mankind knows the
| lovers of their fellow men. Society
| ever demands the Moses virtue of vi
| seriousness of the man whom it calls
| to its head.