The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-05

HhS one anu IKE the OLleEs OF ne Will
attach himself to one and think slight
ingly of the other. You cannot be the
bondservants both of God and of gold.
For this reason l charge you not to
be over-anxious about your lives, in
curing what you are to eat or what
you are to drink, nor yet about your
bodies, inquiring what clothes you are
to put on. Is not the life more pre-
efous than its food, and the body than
it's clothing? Look at the birds that
fly in the air: they do not sow OF reap
or store up in barns, but your Heaven
much greater value than they? Which
of you by being oyer-anxious can add
a single foot to his height? And why
be anxious about clothing? Learn a
lesson from the wild lilies. Watch
their growth. They neither toll nor
I spin, and yet I tell you that not even
Solomon in all his naagnifieence could
array himself like enc of these. And
If God so clothes the wild heritage,
which today flourishes and tomorrow
is thrown into the oven is it not much
more certain that He will clethe you.
ye men of little faith? De not be over
anxious, therefore, asking What shall
we eat?' or What shall we drink or
what shall we wear?' for all these arr
questions that .Gentiies are always
asking; but yeuF Heavenly Father
knows that you need these things
all of them. But make His kingdom
and righteousness your chief aim. and
then these things shall all be given
you ia addition"
Fifty the Profiteers.
Yesterday the prefiteer excited ex-
ecratipn, and sometimes envy; today
he excites only pity, and amusement.
The poor fool forgot utterly the cpl
gram OF the East-'"Fhis. too, shall
pass away" He ignored, If he ever
knew, the teaching of Jesus about the
transformers of material riches. He
thought his fat days of public plumber
were to continue indefinitely-and, 10.
already he has been pinched, and is
eempiaiaed. One of the pitiab1e spec
tacles OF this day of declining prices
is the abject lamentations of the prof
iteers who must now take a loss; it is
in dark contrast with the attitude of
quiet courage shown by the general
public in enduring the profiteers ex-
tortions. Right before everybody
eyes, written large upon each days
newspaper, is this glaring illustration
of the truth of the teaching of Jesus.
When the kingdom era comes. it
brings a better sense of relative values.
All the martyrs and heroes and saints
of the ages bore testimony to what
was really worth while. They put
first things first; and SO lived and
died for those rewards which abide.
Jesus laid down the permanent prin-
ciple that heavenly treasure develops
heavenly hearts. They who live
for great ends becomes great in their
own spirits. To invest ones life in the
permanent securities of heaven, which
suffer no fluctuations, is to acquire
the mind of a citizen of the kingdom
of Heaven. Heavenly indedness'
among men is evidently one of the
chief concerns of the wise Father. He
wants His children to be really rich,
in riches that last. ~
s. Golden Fetters Gall.
A few days ago l walked down a
busy city street, and it seemed as If
every pair of men I met or passed
Iwhelfning. One revolts from the sor-
didness of 1t all: and from it's repudi-
alton of the best things-of life, Money
seems the master of our world. We
behold it in little incidents of every
day, and in the large concerns of
werldA politics. Behind most of the
wars that are raging today is the cold;
calculating, passionless avarice of
great commercial interests. High
crimes of international affairs, and
low crimes of robbery. fraud and muir
der, all owe their being to desire for
money. -.
Small wonder that Jesus cried out
that citizens of Els kingdom could
not serve Mammen, or money, This
bondage isIncomp atible- with loyalty
to God. No man can be loyal to these
two masters. True, we may serve
God and have money for our servant;
that is quite different. But when
money ceases to be a servant and be-
comes a master, then Jesus steps In
to say sternly: "This is treason to
the King!'
So here we have a simple test of
life, straight from the lips of Jesus:
Are we living for money. and what il
may buy: or for Christ and what He
will give? When we live for money,
we put self first: indeed, much mod
ern business ability" reduced to its
simplest terms, is merely ruthless re-
gard for self advantage. Acquisition
of money does distort the true per-
spective of life; and dull the worth of
the Christian virtues. Love of
money" says the inspired word, "is
the root of all evil" But love of Christ
is the root of all good: the best broth
ers of mankind, the helpers of the
world, can say with Paul, 1.-THE love of
Christ constraineth me-" When the
number of these Christ-eonstrained
men and women increases sufficiently,
we shall have a world of peace and
good will and brotherhood.
"What's the Use of Worrying"
There is more powder than peace
on the faces of the women one meets
upon city streets. Lines of care char
aeteyize the eeunteHanee of the mod
era business man. We are a worrying
world. Any sort of remedy for worry.
however superficial and inadequate, is
sure TO have popularity.
Far be it from US, in these troubled
times, to advocate what Carlyle called
"a diet of broad grinsb There is war
rant for the cynical definition eff a,
pesslmist as "a man who has to live
with a professional eptimist." Never
theless, worry and anxiety are need
less and futile. More than that, Jesus
brands them as marks of bad citizen
ship in the kingdom.
II We define worry as reasona BILE
solicitude, then the answer is that it
should be selieitude for things worth
whlle' Most present-day worrying is
ABOUT our bodies, our clothes, our
1000, our outward appearance. Which
christ calls heathenish 1t is un-
worthy of EinPdOu1 oif;xarr