The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-02

standards of honor tranScenolnS COM
mon practice 1--WE have bodies; we
are souls" In those hours of il1unina-
ton, when we best know our best
selves, we perceive godliness. with its
corollary, the subjugation of fleshly
passions, is the true aim of man.
With real pertinency, the lesson
committee has clinched this teaching
by one of Paurs ringing words to the
Christians in the degenerate city of
Ephesus surrounded by the same
downward forces that now surround
u.s. but we have nos so lear, ed
Christ; if so be that We have heard
him, and have been taught by him. as
the truth is in Jesus: that We put off
concerning the former conversation
the old man, which is corrupt &C
cord;ng to the deceitful 1usts; and be
renewed in the spirit of your mind:
And that ye put on the new man,
which after God is created in righte-
business and true holiness" - -
The Man and the Woman.
If all the jests in the current press
were to be tabulated, it doubtless
would appear that most of them have
to do with loR and marriage. In
a great time, with evidences of sp=r-
itual illumination and rebirth on every
hand, 1t is nevertheless true that there
is a great and growing cynicism and
flippancy with respect to the holy
passion of love between man and
woman, and to the institution of mat
rimony. The practice of many men
and even of nations has been a de-
fiance of the Christian teaching of
chastity and monogamy. Love has
been esteemed a light thing. Even
in this. however, there has been a
glazing inconsistency. Peoples that
pander to human lust still sacredly
guard their own daughters from the
ideals which they practice themselves.
And even the most abandoned man or
woman cherishes the hope that some
day the miracle of real love. with the
consequent joys of home. will kindle
fire in the cold ashes of his heart.
who write these lines am travel
ling in the ancient, weary and worm
out regions of earth; where the Gun
of self-indulgence has been drunk to
| the dregs. And the lees are bitter. If
wise, this lesson should be learned to-
day. that righteousness exalteth a
nation" and that There is a way tina
seemeth right to man. but the end
| thereof are the ways of DEATH" Out
here amid the burnt-out and back
ward peoples, the worst sufferers in
the world, one gets a new devotion to
our Anglo-Sa Saxon, Bible-taught ideals
| of home and chastity of love. What is
written in the first chapter of Gene
! sis is written also in the ruins of the
nations that have spurned the divine
command.
! Male and female created he them >
! God made man for woman and woman
for man-one man for one woman
and one woman for one man.. There.
in is completion and symmetry of ex-
| istence to be attained There are mr.
| other joys like home joys; no. Other
success equal to the creation of g
~Christian home, with childrens laugh.
ter resounding within it's walls Our
times have turned thumbs dowr
against the acquisition of vast per.
sonal fortunes as the standard of sue
cess Let us instead proclaim the
building of homes. filled with children
reared in the fear of God, as the high
est achievement possible to man and
woman. For that is Gods plan: and
anything else is failure.