The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-27

holy living. Heave1 implies holiness;
a Saviour slain postulates followers
alive to sacrificiai life.
This pilgrim path leads far the
test of road is its destination and its
dweIt upon the unsocial qualities of
qualities en- route. If Peter had been
a modern sociologist- he would have
fleshly lusts; they make conditions
bitter for other persons than the Of
tenders. Peter, however, takes still
larger view, and points out that sin
wars against the soul 1t is a disease
of the spirit tissue. The worst hurt of
wrong-doing is to the immortal char
acter of the wrongdoer. Since we are
pilgrims to eternal life, we cannot af.
| ford to stain or cripple that part of us
which is to live fore yer.
Herein is the horror of lust. Last
night I met a man whom 1 knew
| twenty-five years ago. as a gilded
youth. a debonair sower OF Wild oats;
now he IS a miserable creature who
has already reaped, IN body and spirit,
the harvest of that sowing. Is he to
so thru eternity with that scared and
scared and stunted spirit? Peter adj
jures us to flee the sins which mar the
real man. the higher nature which
loves and dreams and dares and lives
forever.
The Cure For Present Ills.
Ten thousand times this has all been
said; it never needed repetition more
than today. Noble character alone
makes an ideal society; and holy char
acter and conduct are the logical con-
| sequences of \the Christian religion
After congress and Parliament, states
men and economists, reformers and
| educators, have done their utmost, the
real task of constituting a better world
still remains with those who win men
and women into discipline to Jesus.
| We are talking commonly In terms of
institutions when we really need to be
talking about individual chara cter and
ideals. Foreign exchange and foreign
relief and domestic and political re-
form all less important than the incuI-
cation oftChristian teaching into our
youth.
I am writing this lesson aboard a
railway train. TO the overload talk EFF
two nice girls who have made casual
acquaintance of two college students
and they are discussing the latest card
games. L wonder if these sophisti-
Gated and educated young women
Alice Meynelrs THE Lady of the
Lambs?
She walks-the lady of my delight
A shepherdess of sheep.
Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them
-. She guards them from the steep.
She feeds them on the fragrant height,
And folds them in for sleep.
"She roams maternal hills and bright,
Dark valleys safe and deep.
Her dreams are innocent at night;
The ehastest stars may peep.
She walks-the lady of my delight
\ A shepherdess of sheep.
She holds her little thoughts in sight,
Tho gay they run and leap.
She is so circumspect and right;
She has her soul to keep.
She walks-the lady of my delight
A shepherdess of sheep"
two master incentives to lofty liv-
ing are cited by Peter. One is the
example of Jesus. The other is his
crucifixion. This lesson is one of the
places wherein it is specifically stated
that Christ died that we
may live righteous lives Goodness
is the foundation of that variously-
named perfect state of society which
the New Tesla nient calls the kingdom
Of heaven. On no other foundation
can be built the social order of our
dreams and of the worlds desperate
need.