The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-18

in the far-Off CauC- sus, a fine Cos
sack soldier said to me, 81 am think
ing all the time of the Cross" He
was man of battles. but the memory
of his slain Commander was ever with
him. BY this observance, "Ye do show
the Lords death until he come"
What the Cross Says.
world, in the very lands where the
Bible story was enacted, We hear well
come rumors that America is awaken
ing religfously; that thoughtful per-
sons have come to understand that
society can be saved from disaster
only by the divine Lord who saves the
sinners soul. They are seeing thru
the hollowness and mockery of a
new social program that is born of
hate and led by selfishness. Collec-
tive ill-will and personal license will
never make the world better. We
need to go back to the cross of hui
initiation, of self-denial, of crucifixion,
to find redemption for our wandering
times. To all who have ears to hear,
this is the day of the cross. Says AL
fred Noyes;
Then once again we saw the Cross go by.
The Cross that fell With all those glorious
towers
Burnt black in France or Knocked on Call
TIL in one night the crosses rose like
flowers.
''Legions of small white crosses. mile on
mile,
Penciled with names that had outfought
all pain,
Where every shell-torn acre seemed to
smile
who shall destroy the Cross that rose
again?
"out of the worlds walpurgis, where hope
where ali the forms Of faith in ruin fell.
Where every sign-of heaven that earth had
shriveied among the Iava-floods of hell.
The eternal Cross that conquers' might
with right
Rose like a star to lead US thru the night"
This old earth is going to be saved
anew in our time only by Christ and
those Of his friends who can say, I'VE
have been crucified with Christ"
This Hungry World.
There is more to this sacrament
than a memory and a reminder. 1t
Is a feast. In sublime mystery, and in
a way passing all mortal unde stand
ing, the Lords Supper feeds the spirits
of those who partake. They share
the very life of Him who gave himself
as bread. HIS divine nature flows
thru their spiritual being. The weak
become strong, the fearful brave, the
sad become joyful Power and a holy
peace are impaired at the table spread
by his life. For his flesh is meat
indeed"
In a time that is madly seeking
satisfaction and finding it not, hav-
ing its fairest fruit turn into apples
of Sodom, a man is sure of attention
when he talks of real satisfaction for
the spirit. Like Athenians of old,
many persons nowadays spend their
time in nothing else than TO see or
hear some new thing. They fit from
pleasure to pleasure, from fad to fad,
from pursuit to pursuit. only to grow
more jaded and weary with each new
experience. In order to tittilate tired
appetites, they fling away conventions
and moralities, ard flout the codes
of man and the laws of God. Still
the look of exhaustion in their eyes
grows deeper, and the lines of ennui
multiply thickly on their faces. Dis
appointment is the experience of these
adventures among the husks of the
far country.
All the while, within reach of every
weary spirit, abide the deep satisfac-
tons of the life of the spirit. They
that he fully satisfies. All the hun
ger of the heart is gratified in him.
He not only imparts his own peculiar
satisfactiofs to those who seek peace
in him, but he also enriches all the
other joys of life. Home and dear
ones and work and play and friend
ships are all sweeter when they are
"in him." The rewards of the Chris
tan religion are as many-sized as life
itself.
Therefore we find the Saviour Of
fering himself to his church thruout
the ages in the form of a feast. He
feeds and he satisfies. The Lords
table is a board of repletion. When
he first established it, in that Jeru-
salem upper room. he began with a
prayer of thanksgiving and ended
with a hymn; which is symbolical of
the attitude of the soul which sits
down to the Lords Supper with the
Master and with his friends.