The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-31

There was a Christ indeed and he had
given me the JOY I'd dreamed.
"she nestled to me. and / kept her near
and warm surprised to find
The arms that held my babe so close
were opened wider to her kind.
81 hid her safe within my heart. My
heart, said, is all for you,
But 10, She left the door ajar and all
the world came flocking thru
| "She needed me. 1 learned to- know the
royal joy that service brings
all little helpless things
"she trusted me, and I who ne'er had
trusted, save in self, grew cold
with panic lest this precious life should
know no stronger, surer hold.
"She lay and smiled and in her eyes /
watched my narrow world grow broad,
Within her tiny, crumpled hand l touched
the might hand of God"
Fairly startling are the radical
i words of Jesus upon the sancity of
childhood. Consider this extract from
the assigned International Lesson,
quoted from the Weymouth transla-
ton:
"Just~then the disciples came to
Jesus and asked, Who ranks higher
than others in the Kingdom of the
child to Him. and. bidding him stand
in the midst of them. said
In solumn truth I tell >xou that
unless you turn and become like lit
tie children. you will in no case be
admitted into the kingdom of the
heavens. Whoever. therefore shall
humble himself as this young child,
he it is who is superior to others in
the kingdom. of the heavens. And
whoever for My sake receives one
young child such as this, receives
Me. But whoever shall occasion the
fall of one of these little ones who
believe in Me, it would be better for
him to have a milestone hung about
his neck and to be drowned in the
depths of the sea.
| Beware of ever despising one of
these little ones, for L tell you that
in Heaven their angels have con-
tinuaI access to My Father who is
! in Heaven
Slowly, thruout the ages, Christians
have come to a clearer apprehension
of the application of this truth; and
they are lifting the yoke of labor from
childhood's neck, and putting into its
hands books and toys and other pleas
ures beyond the imagination of an
earlier day. A few days ago 1 asked
city superintendent of schools about
the success of night schools. 1--WE
used to have thirty; now we have only
ten. The working children who used
| to go to night school, are no longer
allowed by law to work, and they are
the ones who crowded our high
| schools"
| Education and sociology are follow
ing belatedly in the train of Jesus, who
| put the crown of His upon childhood
and sanctified it by identifying its serv-
ice with ministry to Himself. One of
our departed poets. Frederic Lawrence
Knowles, wrote:
" Make of my heart cried. n Tyre wherein
The wind of mans desire shall sweep
some string
| Into Immortal music: utterly gone
| Ny, dearest hopes unless Il gain this
Then the calm Voice; Nay, son, thy
But thou mayest feed, for Me, an hun
cry child" ss
The Career of Careers.
Modern young women, in increas-
ing numbers. want careers" and i'm
dependence: and nobody would do 9TH
er than rejoice in the enlarged oppor-
tunities which have come toiwomen
| for the expression of their personals
/ ties Withal it remains true that the
Garden of Eden idea of a career for
women still offers her the largest
measure of happiness and service, as
mate and mother. Ask any woman
who has succeeded in literature or on
| the stage or in art or business what
she thinks about it; and her answer
will be that it is greater happiness to
sing lullabies beside a cradle than to
thrill thousands in public: to see the
eyes of children light up at her APP
proach than to see her name in cleo
trio lights on Broadway; to listen to
| little lips call her "Mother!" than to
listen to all the praises of the big
| crowd
Better to be a successful Sunday
school teacher of boys and girls than
1 Il
sus standard tests all things by the
child. Lowliest duty may be highest
service. over against all loving deeds
for little ones the Master writes Tn
asmuch-" And concerning all who de-
bauch childhood-what warning to
those who write or draw or make mo-
ton pictures for children!-the gentle
Jesus declares that they would better
have been dead, drowned with mill
stones about their necks. Offenders
| against childhood need TO be in no
doubt about the attitude of Christ to-
ward them.
| We enter the new year in trou-
| bled time with the voices of little
| children crying to US from Europe
/ from the Caucasus and from China.
Starvation and suffering are abroad
among the little ones whom Jesus
loves; and in whose stead He stands
I crying "Inasmuch as We have done ii
unto one of the least of these My
| brethren, ye have done it unto Me-