The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-11

him. we group all the qualities of
character which the war has exai.eu.
and. 10. they are perfectly fulfilled IN
him who is at once our Hero. our
Leader. our Inspirer, our Teacher, our
Example, our God.
Every newspaper man is familiar
with the progress of the appetite Ior
publicity. A person gets his or her
name into the paper. in the society
column or in the political news. and
likes the sensation so we'll that its
repetition is sought. Even tho pub
licity be secured on an increasing
scale it is never enough; the appetite.
which grows by what it feeds upon. is
Unsuitable The end is usually bitter
ness and disappointment \and fire.
quently belief that the editors are
in a conspiracy to keep the publicity
seeker out of the public eye! AS 1t is
with this sort of machine-made fame.
so it is also with wealth and position
and pleasure. None of them perfectly
satisfy. They are not sustained graft
fications. Safety and pail come too
soon. On the other hand, it is Inar-
vellously true that to- His true friends,
Jesus Christ becomes an ever-increas-
ing satisfaction. He is the perfect
love, which grows sweeter with every
passing year. He satisfies expecta-
ton.
But Thee. but Thee, sovereign Seer of
But Thee, o poets Poet. wisdom's Tongue.
But Thee. o mans best Man, loves best
o perfect life in perfect labor writ.
Q all mems Comrade, Servant King. or
What if or yet, what mole. what flaw. what
lapse,
What least defect or shadow of defect,
What rumor, tattled by n.enemy.
of inference loose, what lack of grace
Even IN fortunes grasp, or sleeps, or
oh, what amiss may l forgive in TBee.
Jesus, good Paragon. thou Crystal Christi
How the Revolution Spreads.
In the early days, the cult of Christ
| spread as radical socialism is spread
| ing today-by man -to-man testimony
The most powerful modern movements
are not those promoted by press and
| pulpit. Professional propa ganda has
no such weight as the opinion that
passes from man to man. The pride
of print is rebuked by the rapid dis
semination of convictions from lin to
ear. The world is not dependent upon
| the published Nword for its opinions
| What one person tells another is more
potent than what both read. Bolshe-
| Vlk1sm had no newspapers, in Ger
| many; yet it was found ripe and ready
all over the land, when the hour
struck
That calls us back to the lesson of
the first Christian discipleship The
fellowship or the friends of Christ
grew by personal testimony Each
person as he found the Lord, told
somebody else. John told James: An
drew told Peter; Philip told Naths-
MEL That process continued, in geo.
metrical progression, until the Chris
tian brotherhood in u e,s centuries
had engulfed even the Roman Empire
itself. Today. in a spirit-thirsty time,
are we to depend upon the enactments
OF the peace congress for our new
world order; or are we, one by one,
each as he has opportunity. to bear
witness to the indispensability of an
era of good will and Christian fra
ternity?
This lesson is being written aboard
a steamship, with a cosmopolitan
company of passengers On public
occasions we hear eloquent words
about the Importance of Anglo-Ameri-
can solidarity, and no man challenges
these views. But privately, in smok-
ing room, at table and on deck, the
anti-British whisperers are at work,
insiduously seeking to cut the bonds
/ of this essential unity. 1t is a vivid
and present illustration of the. place
i and power of personal testimony; a
i summons to every friend of the world
to become a personal evangelist of
good will between Great Britain and
America. Even more is ii a reminder
that Christ's cause in our day-which
is mans cause. too-needs Witness
bearers who will, quietly, naturally.
persistently bear testimony that he
fulfills the great expectation of our
time.
When I was a youngster in a news
paper office, we had political cor
:. respondent who signed his LETTERS
More Adjoining" He never wrote
anything worth remembering. but his
pen-name sticks, and has became
fraught with larger meanings For
to every word of Christ, and every ex-
perience of Christ, may be affixed the
More Adjoining" His is the ever
enlarging bounty and life. We never
come to an end Of his sufficiency. All
that the world seeks for is found in
him. with yet more to follow 1t is as
true of the social order as of the indi-
vidual experience that, Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard. neither have
entered into the heart Of man. the
things which God hath prepared for
them that love him.