The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-28

upon the manual ylaborers is as bad a
citizen as the Bolshevik who. rails at
all others as bourgeois. = Both are
silly, and exerting a maiisn Influence
out of all proportion to their personal
Importance. Anybedy who thinks or
talks in terms of classes todaysis adS--
ing to the woridssToe, and intensifyr,
ing its gravest present problem. You'd
that a great leader might ariseA to
blazon upon the days horizon, in fufleT
est significance:, the inspired struth.
zone is your Master. even Christ, and.
all We are brethren. : : e, < ( Z :
Neither leisure nor pleasure IS alone
worth living for. Work, real woslz5
hard work, taxing works. the human
lot, our contribution 10 our world. Into.
the thinking of the oncomit1g genera
ton there. should be instilled above
for work, a pride in work, and yeri-
table passion for work. Among mem :
orized poems should be Henry Van
Dykes:
Let me but do s1Ry work from day, to. day.
In field or forest, at the desk or. leeIn, i
In. roaring nqrket- plase, or aTanaail
Let me but find it in my heart. to say. :
When vagrant wishes beekon me sastray,
This is my work; my blessing, not my
OF ali who,uveI am the one by whom .
This work can best be done in5niy own
way. aas
Then shall I see it, not too great nor.
Ee suit my spirit and arouse my eewsEs
And eheerfaiiiy turn, when 1ae hong.
At eventide to play and love, and, rests
Because / know for me my work Is best. !.
Tho King With Towel.
Only once in all his recorded words
did Jesus say, Il have given you ah
example" That was when He was
doing a servants work. In His self
ftie
puffed-up friends do as he did i He
had, as 1t were invested Himself With
all His royal state-"Jesus, fSnoWIns
that the Father had gwen all things
into His hands, and that He game
forth from God, and goeth unto. cod
before He girded Himself with a
towel, emblem of service.
We are not left in any doubt as to
the significance of any phase IF the
incident. 1t was not a casIa', un-
premeditated bit of gracious. conde7
scension on the part of Jesus; but
deliberate, seIf-conseious evidence of
his attitude toward service and humil
ity. 1t was a deep rebuke to the.
prideful twelve, and lesson for his
church thruout all time. When We
want to be Christlike, we have to serve,
''Ye call me The Rabbi and The
Mastery and rightly SO, for such ] am
II then, your Master and Rabbi. have
to wash one anotherss feet
If in every labor temple and every
gathering place of toilers, there could
be hung a picture of Jesus, girded with
a towel; and in every board of trade
and directors room and employers s
office a picture of Jesus as a carpen-
ter, the MESA ge might sink home.
That figure is the test and the judge
of all of us. Only in His patient, toler
ant, self -abegating spirit can we meet
our present emergency. Other teach
ers may arraign us against one
another; Jesus takes us all into His
fellowship on the plane of service.
PridefuI wealth and arrogant Tabor
in search of leisure both need the
word that is truly the golden text of
this lesson: The Son of Man came
not to be ministered unto but..to min
lister" who follows in His train ?"
That way lies the healing of the
worlds wounds the meeting of it's
needs the bridging of it's sehasmsssthe.
securing of its peace ss~sS n
II Suppose. insteads of writing asou s
selves down, "John Doe, capitalist"
we write, John Doe, minister to men,
in imitation of Jesus Christ" Or in
stead of Richard Roe, Workman" we
write. "Richard Roe, minister to men.
in imitation of Jesus Christ" How
long would our industrial crisis sur
vive such spirit?
The way out for today was shown
in the upper room in old Jerusalem,
the night before Jesus died.
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