The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04

and qualities of his sent Revealer' MS
only Son.
face at fifty" said distinguished
lawyer. Our personalities do come to
reflect what we really represent.
Some men make us think OF oase
things: selfishness, sensuality' sordid,
ness or smallness of soul are tamped
on their faces. Other men and women
it is oftener women-start us TO
thinking thought of God. Their races
mirror spirituality. And whenever
we look upon Jesus, we see all OF GOO
bend. He that hath seen me, hath
seen the Father" Christ is Gous
looking glass.
The qualities of God, which Jesus
portrayed were Father qualities. That
idea was something new in religion.
A God of battles, God of fire, God
of i4ature. a God of vengeance, God
of terror--ail these figures were IA
miliar to the race. But in the mirror
of the master men saw God as 3
providing and pardoning. 1t is an
overwhelming thought that all the
infinite and omnipotent qualities or
God are at the service of his fathep
heart.
That is a word for today. All over
the earth men and women need to
learn, above everything else. that God
has father nature; and that he sent
his Son to say so. 1 know woman
of strong character, a trained nurse,
who is now employed by a few great
physicians. giving her time exclusive
ly to this work, to visit their nervous
and distraught patients and read to
them the New Testament. and talk
to them about God as Christ made
him plain. For these scientifically
trained doctors have learned that it is
oftenest the hearts of men and women
that are sick; and that they need,
more than medicines and surgery, to
hear the voice of Jesus say. Come
unto Me and rest My wise nurse
friend has become minister to souls.
A Path to Peace.
Our commonest aiiment in the
western world today is nervous
prostration. We are fretting our
selves to impotence and pain and joy
lessness, because we are losing our
faith in God. 1t is God that we need
most of all. A clear comprehension of
the truth that Jesus so beautifully pro-
pounded. on the gently sloping hill by
the Lake of Galilee, just outside OF
Liberals, is the sovereign remedy for
our days ills. He showed how the
very Father nature of God entailed
exemption from anxiety:
"25. Therefore say unto you, Take
no thought for your life what We shall
eat, or what ye shall drink: nor yet
for your body, what We shall put on.
Is not the life more than meat, and the
body more than raiment?
| "26. Behold the fowls of the air:
for they sow not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns; yet your
We not much better than they?
"27. Which of you by taking
thought can add one cubit unto his
stature?
"2S. And why take We thought for
raiment? Consider the lilies of the
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neither do they spin:
s"29. And yet I say unto you. That
even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these.
go. Wherefore. IL God so clothe
the grass of the field, which today is.
and tomorrow is cast into the oven.
shall he not much more clothe you,
o We of little faith?
"31. Therefore take no thought,
saying. What shall we eat? or, What
shall we drink? or Wherewithal shall
we be clothed? ao Elm ..-t
"S2. (For after all these things do
the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly
Father knoweth that We have need of
all these things.
., "a But But seek see u first the kingdom
these things shall be added unto you.
"34. Take therefore no thought for
the morrow: for the morrow shall
take thought for the things of itself
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
4 thereof"
Il know not where his Islands lift
! Their fronded palms in air;
only know l cannot drift, p.
Beyond his love and care"
Timelier than the cablegram in tf1i.
paper is the word of Jesus that the
God who is a father also has a king
dom; and that all who would be His
sons and know His peace should de-
vote themselves with supreme passion
to that kingdom. We are all bent on
lettering the blood-bought world and
upon keeping faith with our dear dead.
who proved their sonship by their
sacrifice in France. What they died
to win can only be secured as the
kingdom of God comes among men;
the kingdom that is love and Justice
and good will; the Kingdom that is
the one sure league of nations. As
our soldiers offered up their all for
a kingdom cause, can we ignore the
call of Christ to pursue, with pas
sionate and self-immolating devotion,
the kingdom that glorifies the King
and best serves the world? Here IL
the challenge for the new day. Gus
| God whose father-heart yearns for
tokens of our love wants us to live and